Pavel Dedev of Soviet Moscow

If P. Diddy was born in the Soviet Union, he would've been Pavel Diddiev,

the son of an African diplomat who simply stayed behind after the Moscow Olympics of 1980,

a respectable cultural affairs officer of the local party committee, responsible for

public events. Instead of white parties, weekly mandatory volunteer work days

at the community cultural center. White shirts, attendance required, joy optional.

And, of course, he would take personal mentorship over a young talent,

Zhenya Bobrov, a promising accordion player from the Moscow suburb of Biberovo.

Instead of a thousand bottles of baby oil, a separate room filled with Vietnamese