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Beatles guilty for Drug Problems of the Russian Youth??
« on: June 27, 2012, 03:41:29 PM »

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.
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Re: Beatles guilty for Drug Problems of the Russian Youth??
« Reply #1 on: June 27, 2012, 04:48:12 PM »

Funny how the Russian official got his chronology wrong. The Beatles had disavowed drugs (temporarily, at least) before they hung out with Maharishi at Rishikesh. Paul's public admission of using LSD occurred in 1967; the Beatles went to India in 1968. Obviously, this official doesn't read this forum. ;D
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Re: Beatles guilty for Drug Problems of the Russian Youth??
« Reply #2 on: July 02, 2012, 08:23:04 AM »

Plus (almost) every human being is responsible for his/her own behaviour. The Beatles are not to blame.
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Re: Beatles guilty for Drug Problems of the Russian Youth??
« Reply #3 on: September 05, 2012, 07:31:17 PM »

Plus (almost) every human being is responsible for his/her own behaviour. The Beatles are not to blame.

Unfortunately mister Putin and Co. (including Archbishop of Russian Christian Church) don't think so. They afraid of people and so they make many nonsense laws and rules.

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Re: Beatles guilty for Drug Problems of the Russian Youth??
« Reply #5 on: August 08, 2013, 10:54:53 AM »

Homoerotic  ;D

Maybe  to marry well  with Snowden?
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Re: Beatles guilty for Drug Problems of the Russian Youth??
« Reply #6 on: August 09, 2013, 11:30:43 AM »

We call him a tsar. It seems he will rule forever, at least next 11 years after already 13. He changed our constitution for it and now makes laws that help him and his friends to be at top and have power.

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Re: Beatles guilty for Drug Problems of the Russian Youth??
« Reply #7 on: August 09, 2013, 01:57:47 PM »

« Last Edit: August 09, 2013, 07:19:01 PM by Dmitry »
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