Russia blames The Beatles

[That 70s Guy]

ultimateclassicrock.com

According to a Russian health official, the youth of his country have a major drug problem — and it all goes back to those darn Beatles.

“After the Beatles went to expand their consciousness in India ashrams, they introduced that idea – the changing of one’s psychic state of mind using drugs – to the population,” argued Yevgeny Bryun, the Russian Ministry of Health’s chief alcohol and drug abuse specialist, during a Moscow press conference reported by London’s Daily Telegraph.

“When business understood that you could trade on that – on pleasure and goods associated with pleasure – that’s probably where it all began,” continued Bryun, who went on to discuss the “tough measures” needed to curtail the lingering effects of Beatlemania.

As the Telegraph notes, the Beatles were banned for a period in the U.S.S.R., following a decree by the nation’s state-run record label that “musicians such as these, who have plunged to the depth of musical decline, do not deserve a place on Soviet records.”

A new ban seems unlikely, however — especially given that current Russian president Vladimir Putin is a self-avowed Beatle fan, and after Paul McCartney played Red Square in 2003, Putin told him that the band’s music had been “like a gulp of freedom” to Soviet youth in the ’60s.

 

[Hydrazoic Acid]

Drug trafficking from Afghanistan to Russia doesn't stop from year of 2001. The Beatles had nothing to do with it. But we would have to ask this bastard Putin, "when he going to stop this lawlessness?". Bribable crud.

 

[LG]

That's both funny and kind of sad at the same time. You can't blame the Beatles for the current state of affairs in Russia, their glory days ended over 40 years ago now.

Putin...he is a dictator plain and simple exactly what you expect when an ex-KGB takes over the presidency of his country.

 

[Berserker]

He's not just ex-KGB, he ran the KGB for years. But then again US drug policy is just as made up and ridiculous. FDA says marijuana has no medicinal value and therefor cannot be studied.

DEA uses taxpayer money to squash pro pot referendums, in effect stiffing democracy.

It's the same ball of wax as LSD makes you jump out of windows or reefer madness, etc.

Remember kids:

 

[zephead]

lol

 

[Jake T]

That's both funny and kind of sad at the same time. You can't blame the Beatles for the current state of affairs in Russia, their glory days ended over 40 years ago now.

Putin...he is a dictator plain and simple exactly what you expect when an ex-KGB takes over the presidency of his country.

George H. W. Bush was the Director of the CIA. How is that any different? Woops, we're discussing politics.

 

[AboutAGirl]

“When business understood that you could trade on that – on pleasure and goods associated with pleasure..."

To suggest that industry first discovered you could make money off of pleasure in the mid-1960s, is an alarmingly nonsensical proposition.

 

[METALPRIEST]

Those evil Beatles

 

[LG]

George H. W. Bush was the Director of the CIA. How is that any different? Woops, we're discussing politics.

That's true enough Jake, but George didn't retire then subvert the constitution and return after installing his 'caretaker" for a term to rig an election and take power again and then have the chutzpah to say it was a democratically correct function of government. Everyone knows he's a fraud and Russian's everywhere will be happy when he's finally gone.

Back to the Beatles, it's also ironic that George helped steer the band to a more enlightened direction after they experimented with all the drugs available. He knew they needed to change their habits after they got out of a car at the recording studio one day and forgot what they were doing there because of all the pot John, Ringo and him had smoked on the way to the recording studio after Paul told them to get off their asses and do some work.

 

[gcczep]