communist + capitalist = struggle to inherit the Enlightenment

  • reason, analysis, high-minded culture & a rejection of overarching authority

Animal Farm - George Orwell to satire SU

Andrei Zhdanov

  • Stalin’s censor

glorification of Russian (not SU) cultures and significance

conservative on sex and lust

1948 US Information and Educational Exchange Act
US foreign information programme budget for 1949 doubled

US propaganda

  • Germany
    • Voice of America broadcasting days of NY
    • Amerika Haus
  • rest of countries receiving Marshall Plan
  • censor of Hollywood
  • US films preferred throughout Europe to be quite funny and sex appeal
    • SU deadly serious & slow moving
  • ‘Red Menace’ films

Germany east and west

SMAD - Soviet Military Administration in Germany

  • DEFA - east German film company monitored by SMAD

culture

  • SU
    • classical music and ballet
  • US
    • popular music and entertainment
    • comic characters e.g. Godzilla; Captain Marvel; Captain Atom