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When The Old Soviet Union “Thawed” And Became Fascinated With Western Culture

ISSUES Posted: May 10, 2019 9:32 am

Just as the CIA sponsored leftist magazines and abstract expressionism to assert American cultural supremacy (and to make censorship seem like something that only happened in communist countries), the Thaw mobilized the availability of Western art to combat the image of the Soviet Union as a repressive regime. Cultural exchange programs and film industry trade agreements were part and parcel of this. – The New Republic

ISSUES Published: 05.08.19

Read the story in The New Republic Published: 05.08.19

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