How the Beatles Rocked the Kremlin (2009)

• 68%
• 2009
• Documentary
• History
• Music
• Leslie Woodhead
• Artemiy Troitskiy
• Leslie Woodhead
• George Martin

As much as the Beatles were the greatest rock band of them all in most of the Free World in their day, their effect in the Soviet Union's sphere of influence was no less profound. Ironically considering the band's working-class origins, the Soviet Union authority reacted to its growing popularity with its own youth with alarmed hostility as a bourgeois subversive threat to their power. This film covers the struggle during the Cold War when the Soviet government desperately fought to repress the burgeoning cultural influence of the Beatles and the young culture it encouraged. Through interviews of various Russian fan and historical footage, we followed a force that ultimately proved as destructive to Soviet hegemony as any military weapon could have been in an actual war.