Philosophy

The Cold War was a war between the Soviet Union and the United States that focused on the manipulation of public opinions and ideological battles instead of military ones. The two countries actively created and reinforced negative stereotypes about each other and  Propaganda was one of the many tools in the toolbox of the Soviet Union and the U.S. utilized it actively during the Cold War across diverse mediums.…

The Soviet Union’s active response to prominent American propaganda such as the Voice of America further demonstrated its influence on the public. The Voice of America was publicly denounced, discredited, and blocked many times in the Soviet Union to counteract its compelling influence. As the Voice of America started reaching through the Iron Curtain, the Soviet Union jammed the radio frequencies used by the U.S. in an attempt to…

On the other hand, the U.S. propaganda pieces told a somewhat different narrative. The U.S. public was without a doubt exposed to pro-capitalistic, pro-American propaganda, but the public was also exposed to propagandistic pieces containing criticisms of the U.S. since the media was not under the total control of the government. The cartoon on the left explicitly describes how the U.S. characterized itself in the media. The Western world,…