So in a lecture a few days ago the lecturer put this up to show a sense of how far reaching British Culture was in the 1960s. However that post was a head scratcher since I havent read anything of culture being a major factor in the fall of the USSR.
The quote was by: Mikhail Safanov in 2003 in a book he wrote (no idea which) and another quote to add more info is, “It was Lennon that murdered the USSR”
It seems to be something a conspiracy theorist would say however it would be interesting i feel to read rebuttals of it.
hi! I'll leave commentary to others, but FYI, this isn't a unique suggestion: there's also a TV documentary How the Beatles Rocked the Kremlin (2009, dir. Leslie Woodhead); it aired in the USA on PBS. Woodhead subsequently published a book How the Beatles Rocked the Kremlin: The Untold Story of a Noisy Revolution (2013) Bloomsbury. You can find several film & book reviews, an interview with the director, and the film itself online. There are also other bands or genres that have given credit.
Anyway, you may also be interested in these posts, which touch on the Beatles in the USSR
How did people in the USSR feel about the Beatles' "Back in the USSR" when it came out?
Was "Back in the U.S.S.R." popular in the Soviet Union? (x-post from r/AskReddit)
a minor comment in Was there a punk subculture in the Soviet Union?
a minor comment in Wednesday AMA: Russia and the Soviet Union.