As Russian cultural commentator Artemy Troitsky says: "The Beatles turned tens of millions of Soviet youngsters to another religion."
"They alienated a whole generation from their Communist motherland," he says.
Although the band were never permitted to play in the Soviet Union, where they were officially denounced as "capitalist pollution", the "four lads who shook the world" unwittingly helped shake the Soviet system to its knees, according to many of those who spent their 1960s east of the Iron Curtain.
They destroyed Communism - more than Gorbachev.
The Beatles produced a cultural revolution, the cultural revolution destroyed the Soviet Union.
They made a quiet revolution in our brains. We had it in our hearts.- Yuri
The Beatles did more to undermine the system than the most anti-Soviet literature for which people went to jail.
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