There is no doubt that the music of the impacted the world as it reflected the optimism, fears, and cultural changes that were occurring everywhere.

There are surely many events and peoples that brought about the collapse of the Soviet Union. However, if you were to ask certain members of the Russian population - the popular music critics, young music listeners and even President Vladimir Putin himself, rock n’ roll, namely The are credited with starting the thaw that eventually ended the Cold War. It seems that no country was exempt from the Beatlemania of the 1960s including the Soviet Republics locked tightly behind the iron curtain

Such was the power of the music that era, much of which is still popular with that generation and those that came after. Here is a compilation of that music broken down into 8 videos – ENJOY!