I was born in the USSR in 1977. In those days, Western music came to us with great difficulty. And the anti-American mood was stronger than ever. The US became our great friend after 20 years only in the 90s. But these were very hard times and very few people were interested in music then
I know some Russian young people bought Beatles albums on the black market, but I cannot imagine that anyone would have risk buying an album by a group named "America! :-)