Jézus Krisztus Szupersztár, Hungary I and II

Wikipedia's a wonderful thing. It is there that I learned that
"Jesus Christ Superstar was performed in 1971 in Hungary. The performance was based on the original studio version, and the band and orchestra parts were transcribed to a five piece rockband. The group, Korong, whose author Tibor Miklós wrote the Hungarian lyrics, had a few enormously successful performances in Budapest's university clubs; however, it was banned afterwards from performing it."
Wikipedia did not specify who banned the performance--the Communist government? Religious authorities? Sir Andrew Lloyd Weber? It did mention that the KGB went after performers of the first JCS done in Europe, a 1971 Lithuanian production.
The first of the two Hungarian performances in my Lentathon was from 1986. In 1989 Hungary put the "first tear in the Iron Curtain" (again, as Wikipedia puts it) by taking down the barbed wire between it and Austria. So did JCS bring down Communism? You be the judge.
To my ears the Communist-era JCS rocks harder than the post-Communist one (from the year 2000). Maybe the memory of the banned 1971 performances was still fresh; maybe there was still an element of danger in recording these songs. Remember that deep Eastern European voices and those consonant-heavy languages are ideally suited for hard rock. Everything comes together to give this performance a vitality that the 2000 recording lacks--sadly, once again the later version slips into bombast. (This performance has a lot of the same poor choices that the London revival did, though the Hungarians have a much better ending for "Everything's All Right"--it just stops cold, a refreshing shock.)