Re:China regulator bans TV parodies amid content crackdown
by adventured on Friday March 23, 2018 @11:10AM
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There were always people that left the USSR and came over to the West and told the truth about what conditions were really like there. People mostly chose to believe those stories or not, based on their own ideological bias.
Hollywood put out several productions that proclaimed the USSR was a paradise. [1][2]
US and European industrialists had gone over to the USSR pre-WW2 and helped them build out their industrial base. The Soviets had entirely failed at industrializing on their own. From those experiences, and people writing about them, it was fairly well known what general condition the USSR was actually in economically. Firm, reliable metrics however were largely unavailable throughout the Soviet era.
The fooling of the West, regarding the Soviet's mighty materialism output, mostly fell apart by the 1960s (the facade lasted for ~30 years or so, and mostly only for people that were sympathetic to that ideology).
Hollywood put out several productions that proclaimed the USSR was a paradise. [1][2]
US and European industrialists had gone over to the USSR pre-WW2 and helped them build out their industrial base. The Soviets had entirely failed at industrializing on their own. From those experiences, and people writing about them, it was fairly well known what general condition the USSR was actually in economically. Firm, reliable metrics however were largely unavailable throughout the Soviet era.
The fooling of the West, regarding the Soviet's mighty materialism output, mostly fell apart by the 1960s (the facade lasted for ~30 years or so, and mostly only for people that were sympathetic to that ideology).
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_North_Star_(1943_film)
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Song_of_Russia