Fear of the Soviet Union: Individual and Cultural Perceptions
Year: 2020

Americans have an astonishing stereotyped conception of the Soviet Union. When one travels through the Soviet Union, one is amazed to discover that Russian children in places as divergent as Moscow, Riga, Talinn, Yalta and so forth, all know that President Reagan is a warmonger. Fears of the Soviet Union are related to its controversial foreign policy. Western perceptions about the Soviet Union are under the impact of national prejudices fueled by ignorance and an inability to accept otherness a