Saturday marks the 30th anniversary of the start of Iron Maiden's World Slavery Tour, to support their 1984 album Powerslave. The tour is significant because it started in Poland, soon thereafter going to Hungary and Yugoslavia, thus making Iron Maiden the first Western band to take a full stage show behind the Iron Curtain. Nowadays, it's a little insane to think that there was so much censorship and culture control in the USSR and Eastern Europe that it wasn't until 1984 that an outside band was allowed to tour the Eastern Bloc. Of course, if there was one band that could break through the Iron Curtain, it was Iron Maiden. To honor their historic invasion of the Eastern Bloc, here is the video for "2 Minutes to Midnight" off of the Powerslave album.
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