The USSR showed the movie "The Grapes of Wrath" to Russian audiences in 1948, to depict how bad life was in the US.
They withdrew the movie when what Russian audiences noticed, was that in America, even the poorest family owned a car!
I hadn’t heard about that one....Thank you....:o)
“They withdrew the movie when what Russian audiences noticed, was that in America, even the poorest family owned a car!”
In the 1970s, the Russians sent a reporter to show how bad everything is in the United States. He went into one of our drug stores and used it as an example of how sickly Americans were. But the people watching the report knew enough to tune out the reporter and instead looked behind him, and found shelves fully stocked with stuff they could only dream of ever getting their hands on. Same thing...Russian people are much smarter than their media thinks they are.