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Demonisation of Soviet Union is a propaganda campaign of demonizing Soviet Union.

United States demonized Soviet Union and portrayed it as Antichrist as part of campaign of propaganda campaign of demonizing enemies of USA, both foreign and domestic.^[1]

American film industry demonized Soviet Union for decades. During the Second World War the Soviet Union became an ally of United States so Office of War Information pleaded to American film industry to improve image of Soviet Union.^[2] When Cold War began, anticommunist films and novels again demonized communist treat from Soviet Union.^[3] During the 1960's and new era of dialogue with East (like i.e. the Ostpolitik) it became more difficult to demonize Soviet Union.^[4]

Demonization of Soviet Union continued during the process of political reforms in USSR. Some authors criticized this attitude stating that it is result of myopic understanding of diplomacy and détente.^[5]

References

^ Fuller, Robert C. (6 April 1995). Naming the Antichrist : The History of an American Obsession: The History of an American Obsession. Oxford University Press. p. 158. ISBN 978-0-19-802438-5.
^ Chatterjee, Choi; Holmgren, Beth (2 May 2013). Americans Experience Russia: Encountering the Enigma, 1917 to the Present. Routledge. p. 105. ISBN 978-1-136-17723-1. After decades of caricaturing or demonizing the Soviet Union, Hollywood somehow had to sell American ...
^ Hendershot, Cyndy (19 December 2002). Anti-Communism and Popular Culture in Mid-Century America. McFarland. p. 67. ISBN 978-0-7864-8369-3.
^ Buchanan, Tom (28 November 2011). Europe's Troubled Peace: 1945 to the Present. John Wiley & Sons. p. 98. ISBN 978-1-4443-5702-8. ... the beginnings of West German Ostpolitik) made it far harder to demonize a Soviet Union which itself seemed diminished by its ...
^ Xenakis, Christopher I. (2002). What Happened to the Soviet Union?: How and why American Sovietologists Were Caught by Surprise. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 164. ISBN 978-0-275-97527-2. ... Cohen concluded that the U.S. tendency to demonize the Soviet Union and militarize the Cold War stemmed from a myopic understanding of ...

[University1995-1] Fuller, Robert C. (6 April 1995). Naming the Antichrist : The History of an American Obsession: The History of an American Obsession. Oxford University Press. p. 158. ISBN 978-0-19-802438-5.

[ChatterjeeHolmgren2013-2] Chatterjee, Choi; Holmgren, Beth (2 May 2013). Americans Experience Russia: Encountering the Enigma, 1917 to the Present. Routledge. p. 105. ISBN 978-1-136-17723-1. After decades of caricaturing or demonizing the Soviet Union, Hollywood somehow had to sell American ...

[Hendershot2002-3] Hendershot, Cyndy (19 December 2002). Anti-Communism and Popular Culture in Mid-Century America. McFarland. p. 67. ISBN 978-0-7864-8369-3.

[Buchanan2011-4] Buchanan, Tom (28 November 2011). Europe's Troubled Peace: 1945 to the Present. John Wiley & Sons. p. 98. ISBN 978-1-4443-5702-8. ... the beginnings of West German Ostpolitik) made it far harder to demonize a Soviet Union which itself seemed diminished by its ...

[Xenakis2002-5] Xenakis, Christopher I. (2002). What Happened to the Soviet Union?: How and why American Sovietologists Were Caught by Surprise. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 164. ISBN 978-0-275-97527-2. ... Cohen concluded that the U.S. tendency to demonize the Soviet Union and militarize the Cold War stemmed from a myopic understanding of ...

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