Interesting story but I don't understand, I don't remember there being any question that America was awash in cultural freedom in the 50s and 60s, in mainstream and avant-garde and counter culture - you had the black American jazz scene, the beatnik scene, Jack Kerouac, authors like Truman Capote, off Broadway playwrights, rock and roll, Elvis, the beginning of the sexual revolution, great American films, smart films unlike today and on and on.
Why was modern art so important? It appeals to a very small number of people in every country, the rich intellectuals.
The Soviets were sending their intellectuals to gulags, the Red Army Choir was their most famous musical artists, the Bolshoi Ballet a classical ballet company, and that circus of theirs where bears were cruelly trained to ride bicyles. Who would think there was any cultural war that needed to be fought against the dreariest coldest empire ever created.
Hell, it's 2013, I see the Russian cam girls on MFC, they are still living in drab depressing apartments with wallpaper from the 1930s.
People are still sheep, with enough money and control of media outlets you could make anything popular with the masses.
I hope one day that the greatest irony ever is revealed, that the entire conspiracy kook industry is a CIA work.
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