Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Ian MacDonald ya bayyana waƙar a matsayin "abin ba da hankali ba", saboda sojojin Soviet sun mamaye abin da ake kira Czechoslovakia
kuma ya hana wannan kokarin kasar na gabatar da sauye-sauyen dimokiradiyya. Wasu mambobi na New Left sun soki Beatles saboda wannan aikin. A lokacin shekarun 1960, an yi wa Beatles ba'a a cikin Tarayyar Soviet a matsayin "ƙungiyar al'adun yamma". David Noebel, wanda ya daɗe yana sūkar tasirin rukunin Beatles a kan matasa na Yammacin duniya, ya ce: "Waƙoƙin waƙoƙin sun sa har 'yan Reds ba su iya magana ba".