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Originally Posted by Gladstone
The Marxist cultural revolution of 1968 would soften capitalism in the West. The 'collapse of communism' in 1989 and the influx of capitalism in the East would similarly soften communism/socialism there and be referred to as 'the end of the cold war'.
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Communist countries were softned for decades by means of American mass-culture. I can assure you, since I lived in a Communist country: from my early childhood on, we watched almost exclusively American films, listened to the American music, wore American clothes. The official policy was (to a certian point) rhetorically anti-American, but in fact we were flooded with American propaganda through entertainment.