Why didn’t The Beatles perform in Russia?
During the height of their powers in the mid-1960s, The Beatles could have played anywhere in the world. For the most part, they did. America and Britain weren’t the only lands that the Fab Four conquered: between 1964 and their final tour dates in 1966, The Beatles were a global band, playing everywhere from Germany to Japan to the Philippines. But there was one land where even The Beatles couldn’t get into – communist Russia, AKA the USSR.
Although Paul McCartney poked fun at the restrictions of the cold war on ‘Back in the U.S.S.R.’, there was no plane hopping from Miami Beach to Moscow back in 1968. The USSR had a strict ban on all western culture and media, a tactic used by the communists to control the general populace. There were no pop records, films, media rolls, or even new stories covering The Beatles. But it was impossible to keep the biggest band in the world away from anyone in the 1960s.
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