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So that's why it was banned in the ussr, and not because Khrushchev thought it was stupid shit that "working class man" wouldn't understand and therefore a waste of government funds?
Other way around.
The CIA saw that the Soviets hated it, and decided that this was a great way to differentiate the US from the repressive Communists.