For the Frank Zappa and the Mothers song, see Absolutely Free The Plastic People of the Universe (PPU) is a rock band from Prague, Czech Republic. It was the foremost representative of Prague's underground culture (1968-1989). This avant-garde group went against the grain of the Communist regime and due to its non-conformism often suffered serious problems such as arrests. History From January into August 1968, under the rule of Communist Party leader Alexander Dub?ek, Czechoslovakians experienced the Prague Spring, a thawing of hard totalitarian control. In August, Soviet and other Warsaw Pact troops invaded Czechoslovakia to overthrow Dub?ek and to, in what came to be known as the normalization process, reinstate hard-line communist rule. Less than a month after the invasion, Plastic People of the Universe was formed. Bassist Milan Hlavsa formed th

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