Soviet Anti-American Propaganda - Cold War DOCUMENTARY 

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One of the propaganda posters in the thumbnail is an anti-syndicalist poster made by Canada from Kaiserreich. It depicts a British exile in Canada rallying his comrades against the syndicalist regime in London.

"The reformers tried to build capitalist democracy, but the only point of reference they had was the Soviet Propaganda", - a half-joke in Post-soviet states about the transition from USSR to independent republics.

As someone who was born and raised in USSR and knows and remembers what SU was, I have to say that this channel is one of the best on the topic. Thank you!

Those propaganda posters were designed for every branch of the Soviet economy. For some branches it was hard to make relevant posters. The most ridiculous poster, which I remember, contained the text for the Soviet fishermen: "Every single herring, we fish, serves as a strong hit to the American imperialism"

“Soviets viewed the American political process as being subordinate to Wall Street” that’s not a view, just a fact.

the funny thing about cold war propaganda is that on both sides, most of it was honestly true, just exaggerated lol

Worth to note that in early 20th century, when the Russian revolution happened and before, the word Propaganda did not yet have the negative connotation that we're used to today. It was used unironically and simply translated to something like "political information". So when Lenin writes that the masses should be informed through propaganda, or something along those lines, he simply ment that his party should publish and promote their political goals, it's not to 'brainwash' people

People 40 years from now are going to have some really interesting documentaries to watch. Meme warfare has also changed propaganda in a huge way in our time, too.

I attended a Soviet school in 1980's. I remember that the biggest villain in the modern world for the Soviets was Ronald Reagan. The Soviet art drew him tremendously armed with lot of nukes. In 1988 (in Perestroika era), I heard first time his original voice in English and was very surprised how mild and soft it was.

The scene with the city life of New York has an interesting easter egg. The movie theater marquee is advertising the comedy, "The Russians are Coming, The Russians are Coming" (1966) about a Russian submarine that accidentally runs aground on an island off of New England, then has to enlist locals to help out before an international incident occurs.

"They also portrayed America as a deteriorating country with a failing economic system" Pretty ironic considering what happened to the USSR soon after...

Im not a leftist, I am pretty much Conservative (not American nor living in America) I am in no way saying the Soviet Union was a good thing but most of their Propaganda was pretty damn correct

crazy how most of the critiques the ussr made about the us were and still are pretty true today

This would have been a better episode, if the posters without verbal description had been shown next to a translation, for us non-russian speakers.

Why is the thumbnail mostly not-Russian? The one on the top left corner is a Japanese anti Roosevelt poster, the one close to it as a hoi4 mod artwork poster, and many others are clearly not soviet

I had a college professor say that The Grapes of Wrath got pulled because the Soviets found out people were learning how easy it was for even the poorest to get cars in the United States. I've always wondered if that was true, or just one of those things that gets repeated because it sounds like it might be true.

23:00 AN excellent example of people more likely to believe the first thing they hear, even after correct information becomes available, or the original work is retracted, is the infamous and later retracted 1998 Andrew Wakefield paper that linked MMR Vaccine to autism. This retracted paper is still an article-of-faith in the anti-vax movement.

15:05 so people of all stripes who have never read 1984 publicly claiming that it supports their beliefs is an old phenomenon

Wait is that a Kaiserreich poster in the thumbnail by any chance? Does The Cold War play the best HoI IV mod?

Soviets: see something bad in/by the USA Soviets: let's make a poster about it

Damn,Stalin's list was based lol...it is more then ever correct when you look at modern America,ouch.

A Soviet citizen commented in the post 1991 chaos: "everything they told us about socialism was false. Everything they told us about capitalism was true." Woe the Russian nation, they have been screwed over for so long, they no longer even know what truth is.

Everyone talks about Red Scare, but no one knows about other side! Great topic!

Half of the words we use use now in politics were redefined by the Soviets.

One thing to remember until 1945 propaganda and information were synonyms in English. So the use of the term propaganda must be viewed in that light. Not saying that your use is wrong but the USSR would have said it was involved in the information war. One that both sides used.

This video is awesome . Truly one of the best yet. I'd love to see a video on the smear campaigns between the Soviets and Nazis in the years leading up to the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact too!

The most interesting pieces of propaganda here, are the ones with a kernel of truth. It makes the lies so hard to fight when you have to admit to some hard truths first.

I sort of agree with Trofimenko on the military industrial complex in America promoting conflict.

I well remember listening to Radio Moscow when I was stationed in (then) West Germany in the 80's. We were tasked with intercepting enciphered Soviet communications and occasionally would roll up RM.Good times, missed all those floods and food shortages lol Great channel!

They had a lot right. Buuuut, should have spent more time keeping their own country together rather than criticizing another.

Why is there a kaiserreich poster in the thumbnail-

I'm proud to be an American but as an African American male living in the US a lot of Stalin's points have some truth to them, even to this day.

Wait... but everything on that list was/still is true. 4:56

While the USSR exploited the Black Struggle but so as the USA. Very real grassroot movements are dismissed as pro-Soviet, at best, or anti-American, at worst. Even when they know, for sure, that's not the case.

It funny that both the west and USSR use Orwell 1984 in the propaganda.

As always a very informative video, my thanks to the team. Maybe you could consider a video on how each side dealt with the death of some of the prominent statesman on each side eg FDR, Ike, JFK, de Gaulle and Churchill in the west and Stalin, Khrushchev, Brezhnev and Mao in the east.

Soviet propaganda spitting facts regarding usa lol

My parents lived in Soviet period. All they said about USSR ( Soviet Republic of Azerbaijan)are mostly positive. As a history enthusiast I would definitely say that communism really broke the chains of religion in Azərbaijan though the country was commonly religious prior to Soviet Union, they created education system by force which I found excellent job. Now capital city is plagued by narcotics, ill education and corruption and brutal inequality, brainwashing, fake patriotism, religious cults, unemployment. Of course life standards were extremely low compared to developed western countries particularly USA but ideology itself was really humanistic.

Anyone else notice the Kaiserreich poster in the thumbnail?

that list of themes was completely correct about the US lol

Haha loved the conclusion 🔔 and thoroughly enjoyed the more serious stuff. Thank you for your great work and JFK’s words at the end 🙏🏻

I find it ironic that many of the Soviet criticisms of the post-war United States are spot-on today. That leads me to believe they were true then, especially from the point of view of foreigners. As always you have the truth, but then it becomes a matter of degree and exaggeration.

Fun Fact: One of the propaganda posters in the thumbnail is based on or is from the Kaiserreich series/universe.

Notice none of the Soviet propaganda points were false.

I'm from Czechia and remember my mother and grandmother telling me about a "documentary" about the US. It was meant to showcase how bad the average person had it in the US, they couldn't get over the fact that they still had many more electric appliances than them. They of course ignored the homeless shown in the documentary and that we practically eradicated social issues like that... but it still shows how out of touch the propagandists were.

The Soviets never miss always accurate and correct

A lot of Stalin's 17 talking points really don't sound that different from the stuff you hear on reddit every day.

Yooo is that a kaiserreich poster?

"Soviet propaganda lied to us. Capitalism turned out to be much worse."

What a timely episode.

"... decaf coffee and the trash." LOL

Nice video. My compliments to all those who made this video a reality.

Deserves a sub-series

Are we going to get a American version, too?

I don|t think it can be underestimated what a fantastic painstakingly well done presentation this video is.

I'm reading what Stalin was saying about us and thinking, "He ain't wrong." and I'm decades in the future.

The best allies of the Soviet propagandists were Americans themselves. The Soviets didn't have to come up with anything, just to look at America.

when i was young, my mother, a librarian, subscribed to ussr magazine. it was a large full color monthly that was full of propaganda, but i looked forward to each new issue. it was interesting to see how "those commies" lived and their culture. if it not been for the captions, it could have shown people most anywhere. i saw that the russians were not that different from us. we could have been friends instead of enemies and saved millions of lives and trillions of dollars.if the governments had just gotten out of the way, the world would have been a lot better place to live. peace on earth, good will towards men.

When watching this video and listening to the various criticisms and denunciations made by the USSR to the American State and society (obviously exaggerated, but not totally devoid of truth), I remembered a movie I watched recently - Trumbo (2015), which portrays the case of James Dalton Trumbo (1905 -1976) and other screenwriters and actors from classic Hollywood who are persecuted and falsely accused of treason and conspiracy by the State and the general community, based on their union activities and the struggle for workers' rights. After watching the movie and researching other cases on the so-called "Hollywood Black List" I couldn't help but feel disgusted and saddened by the injustice suffered by these people. I would really like to see a video about it. Thanks and keep up the good work!

Man. Remember when our countries had sovl? Our propaganda is lame now. Its just Call of Duty or blatant bs. Theres no artistry or real work put into it. Where's our Loose Lips? Where's our Wendy?

Where's the lies?

I see that kaiserreich poster in the thumbnail

The thumbnail includes a poster from KaiserReich.

5:05 1) This is untrue. Believe it or not, it's mostly patriotism/nationalism. For a long time, even during the Cold War and today, many Americans believes themselves as the World Policeman and that American interests were the World's interests. Even capitalist monopolies are expected to bend the will to sanctions and this is evident by all the Western companies leaving Russia out of the fear of public perception as well as Western government's legislative power 2) This is hard to say. The US and the CIA have definitely been responsible for a lot of insurgencies in the world, but not all. And the degree that the US influences these compared to how much they spring up on their own is debatable. 3) This is false. The US currently leads international cooperation and has led it since the end of WWII. 4) This is true. 5) This is mostly false and the US was a huge factor in the breaking up of the British and French empires. Although, while the US remained allies of old colonial powers, it was easy for the USSR to spin the narrative to make it seem the US was pro-colonialism. The Philippines, a colony of the USA, was even given independence in 1948, which has actually been promised to the Philippines before WWII, but it was delayed by the Japanese invasion. 6) This is somewhat true. American businesses do influence US politics through things like lobbying. Although American politician also influence businesses and monopolies. Even forcing them to break up into smaller trusts. 7) This is true, but it's much more of a recent development. Blue-collar jobs used to be a lot better. They provided good healthcare, good pay and stable careers that ballooned the American middle class after WWII. Unions were strong and effective. Now in some ways, Unions are corrupt middlemen, but at the same time, working without a Union is really shitty. 8) This is true. Anti-Communist hysteria/anti-Socialism was way overblown and we're still feeling the affects today. However, I don't approve of the West Coast Communist/Anarchist ideologes either that have seemingly really spread recently. 9) Kinda talked about already 10) This is true as much as I hate to admit it. I'm not sure about the national discrimination. The US is country made up of many different nationalities and currently only bout 60% of the population is white. While there are time in American history of discrimination against the Irish, Italians, Germans, the Chinese and Mexicans, it hardly seems unique to the USA. The target seems to move with whatever national crisis is occuring and it happens regularly in other countries. American racial discrimination is a result of slavery and the American Civil War. It's a stain on our society that it very difficult to remove. People don't understand how their ancestors could've fought for slavery and they look for another excuse while still harboring deep racial biases. 11) This is true, although, I imagine it's not actually how the Soviets portrayed it. 12) The US has high standards of living, depending on where you live. So this is true. 13) This is false. American culture is not collapsing. It has spread across the world in many ways and remains strong here in the USA. From our own music to slang and dialects, to sports, food and fashion, American culture is intact and constantly evolving. 14) This is false. American healthcare is really amazing, if you can access it without going broke. 15) This is true, but only so far as the last 20-30 years. Bush's "No child left behind" act really hurt US public education despite it's seemingly good intentions.

Soviet propganda - bad American propoganda - good What makes propoganda good?

Always wanted to learn about this thanks.

Cheeky I saw that Kisereich poster in the thumbnail

As many people in this comments section have already stated, most of this Soviet propaganda was completely correct about American imperialism, militarism, subjugations of other countries sovereignty, staging coups, economic warfare, and exploitation of the third world an global south etc. This isn't controversial or shouldn't be to any thinking individual.

That 1949 list of criticism of the USA is somehow surprisingly up to date.

It's a miracle that the Cold War never turned hot and nuclear war was avoided. Considering the leaders of both sides weren't afraid to play dangerous games of brinkmanship, it's amazing they knew when to step back from the abyss

i do like one of the posters on the thumbnail of this video is fanart from the hearts of iron 4 mod know as kaiserreich, not sure how that slipped passed them but okay.

USSR and USA = in the end, same thing (paranoics that can't allow any other country growing up by itself)

They were right about most of it

Yo holy shit is that a kaiserreich poster

At about 22:31 you can see a billboard for the 1964 comedy “The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming” which poked gentle fun at Cold War fears and hysteria and showed the Russians as just people like the rest of us. Both the Vietnam war and the assassinations and upheavals of the 1960’s did much harm to America’s image, which the Soviets lost no time in exploiting. A little more about movies: Early in the 2002 film “K-19: The Widowmaker” you can see an example of the anti-American propaganda directed at the Soviet public and Russian soldiers. And it is a fine film, directed by Kathryn Bigelow.

It sounds like most of these are still being used in China in some form. (It would be interesting for you to cover the polio vaccine, which was created by American scientists but were tested in USSR in large scale)

4:56 This is not propaganda, it's an accurate depiction of the US.

Praise the Bell Button. Great Episode

Best response..... "Yeah... ..so?"

"I don't see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its people. The issues are much too important for the Chilean voters to be left to decide for themselves." Henry Kissinger

Thank you from Indonesia

5:04 this list kinda hitting different in 2023

5:43 some of this propaganda is lowkey accurate

This is well timed 😂

Soviet propaganda? Why do I need a video on this? I can open Twitter and find it all unfolding right before my eyes lol.

Why do you have a Kaiser cat cinema poster in your thumbnail?

Pot calling the kettle black.

As a cold war kid I'm not sure CCCP propoganda had much reach in the UK. Your video suggest it was mostly for home consumption. Personally I'm a fan of truth based propoganda, someone else shining an embarrassing light upon your homeland can only do good.

Damn. Stalin’s list is still effectively in use today…

Amazing how America cooperated with the Soviet Union by making every single point of their propaganda true. I say this as an American.

How intriguing. Also, I don't know if you caught up with what I said, but I just want to suggest some topics for your channel just to help make it grow and far reaching as possible regarding over aspect of it. Now, keep in mind that some topics are related to the Great War channel because I want to see topics just like the Great War channel did which you’ll see what I mean if you take a look there (ru-vid.com): 1: technology and warfare collaborations ex: American assault weapons of Cold War ft. C&Rsenal or Forgotten Weapons 2: who did what in the Cold War like who did what in WW1 3: Cold War uniforms ex: Soviet uniforms, American Uniforms (in whatever time frame they’re in and how they changed over time) 4: maybe Cold War on the road (I don’t know if that’s the case but worth a shot) 5: More out of the bunker videos like out of the trenches from the Great War channel 6: maybe analysis videos of certain movies, some are fictional while others are real like bridge of spies or Indiana jones and the kingdom of the crystal skull (seems unlikely on my end, but worth to take a look at and interesting to know) 7: tank development and submarine development whether its Soviet, American or whoever That’s what I think, thank you for reading.

Your propaganda induced in me a strong desire to push the bell button. Unfortunately I have been a card-carrying member of your party for a long time already, so I cannot push the bell button any more. Matters should be rearranged so that loyal CW members can push the bell button multiple times. This will ensure a 97% win at any bell button elections!

And a new cold war begins.

When stationed in the UK I recall tuning in to various radio stations. One of them was a pro-Soviet channel "Radio Moscow". I tuned in from time to time. Back then the Soviets had just invaded Afghanistan. Most of their presentations had a Mullah or some Afghan of importance talking about how nice the Russians were. Mostly presented from their point of view, less a message of anger. Odd, because the Cold War was heating up with monthly full NBC gear alerts.

Stalins 17 talking points all relevant today, they were no fools

It's funny how Russia became the country they were showing on those posters.

Ussr had posters. The US had the power of Hollywood. Ussr lost the competition before eit even started

To be clear, America did not 'intervene' in the Korean war. Korea (now S. Korea) under imminent threat of impending Soviet backed invasion, CALLED FOR HELP, From the UN, American being the dominant military power in the UN, responded to this plea for assistance, along with help from multiple other NATO nations .. .. .. Read a book.

So that's where redditors get their information from