Did Laibach get as much shit for that as the Manic Street Preachers got for doing concerts in Cuba and meeting Fidel Castro?
ETA:
Of all the Manics’ antics, the one with the longest-term consequences was their 2001 press trip to Cuba, at which they were photographed shaking hands with Fidel Castro. To this day a substantial number of fans cannot forgive. The band address the subject on their new LP, Futurology.
“I have plenty of regrets,” says Wire. “Cuba was different. It wasn’t an endorsement. We didn’t know Castro was going to be backstage… We never thought Cuba was going to be a communist Nirvana. People in post-Soviet Europe have a certain point of view about us going to Cuba: they despise Castro, bring it up all the time that we shook hands with him.”
