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By Kent Welton
January 17, 2010
The documentary now airing on PBS - How the Beatles Rocked the
Kremlin tells the real story of Russa's old-regime collapse:
"This is the unknown story of how the Beatles inspired a revolution
that helped to destroy the communist system. Leslie Woodhead first
met the Beatles in 1962 when he worked on a film in the Liverpool
Cavern Club before the world had heard of the Fab Four. Twenty-five
years later, when Woodhead began to make films in the Soviet Union,
he became aware of how the Beatles legend had soaked into the lives
of a generation of Soviet kids - even though they were barred from
playing "Back in the USSR." Now he has been on a journey to meet the
Soviet Beatles generation and to discover how the Fab Four changed
their lives. Featuring a bizarre collection of Beatles tribute bands,
the film tracks down the stories of how the Cold War was won with
music as much as with nuclear missiles."
And to think Ronald Reagan got all the credit for bringing down the
wall and the USSR. What a crock. The documentary illustrates how the
Beatles music, and message of peace and love, had infiltrated and
slain the old stodgy, communist-era, generation and culture. Score
one for the hippies! And that very reality will surely drive the
uptight conservative Fox News sluggards crazy, as they prefer to
blame nearly everything on the hippie generation.
Of course, the conservative's line is that Reagan, by wasting all
that money on armaments, at a time when the CIA knew the regime had
no power, was on its last legs, and Gorbachev was clearly no
old-generation Brezhnev, was somehow the real cause of the USSR breakdown.
Yeah, right. Reagan surely deserves credit for his "Bring Down The
Wall" speech and effort, but to suggest he had anything to do with
changing a culture, a nation, and disarming a generation is absurd.
Another way to look at the Reagan regime's actions and reactions is
to understand they knew exactly what was going on and also knew if
they didn't soon spend billions on a defense industry weaponry
bailouts they would not soon have another chance to clamor about the
danger of the Russian regime.
So, as Eisenhower warned, you have to watch these guys in the
military industrial/CIA complex, they will manufacture any excuse to
start and prolong war and its preparations - thus necessitating
immense amounts of taxpayer funds for useless weapons. And they hate
peace breaking out!
So that flower in the barrel of a gun... and "All Ya Need Is Love"
look like very powerful weapons in retrospect. Thank you, John, Paul,
George and Ringo.
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