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The film was use as propaganda as a way of having people join the red army

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Travels to Vienna after his friend dies mysteriously during the start of the Cold War

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Films during this time had been used to show the opposing party in a bad light.

Both the U.S. and the USSR had used films as propaganda to show power and strength

Films showed an increase in awareness of the war and what was going on during this time on a commercial level

Film was the most common viewed piece of material that most people could afford other than T.V. it was a source of entertainment that was able to be controlled producing companies and the government.

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During the Truman Era of the Cold War, music and films helped to facilitate communication and promote the development and maintenance of the national identities of the USSR and the US throughout this time. The use of these social forms helped produce propaganda about the Cold War and show favor between the USSR or the US.

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The Central United Film Studios and the Committee on Cinema Affairs were committed to the Cold War battle. Under Stalin's rule, movies could only be made within strict confines

Between 1946 and 1950, 45.6% of on-screen villains in Soviet films were either American or British. To elevate the status of cinema, such as changing the Committee of Cinema Affairs to the Ministry of Cinematography, cinema did not seem to work as invigorating propaganda as was planned.

opened up by de-Stalinization and real Soviet achievements in the space race, typified by Ivan Efremov's galactic epic, Andromeda (1957). Official Communist science fiction transposed the laws of historical materialism to the future, scorning Western nihilistic writings and predicting a peaceful transition to universal communism.

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movies as another way to create the Communist enemy.
American films incorporated a wide scale of Cold War themes and issues into all genres of film, which gave American motion pictures a particular lead over Soviet film

The films released during this time received a response from the Soviet Union, which led to them releasing its own array of films to combat the depiction of the Communist threat

The Americans took advantage of their pre-existing film industry by incorporating propaganda against the Soviets. Between 1948-1953 most films during this time were anti-communist by using different genres of the Cold War.

The U.S. Catholic Legion of Decency and the Production Code Administration were used as the main producers of movies in the early stages of the Cold War. This groups filtered out politically questionable movies.

Hollywood began using spy films to create the Soviets as the enemy of films. Spy films were effectively a "weapon of confrontation between the two world systems.

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Germans played a huge role to determine the music of the USSR bc they were influenced by classical music

Bach and Shostakovich ruled and formed ideologies

Dance music was rejected bc the Germans rejected it and saw it as inferior to their music even though it originally developed in Germany

Musicians had severe restrictions put on their music and they were not able to fully explore their talents

Shostakovich was inspired by Jewish themes and he became heavily censored bc of Stalin’s anti-semitic movements and he was not allowed to perform some of his work and many of his works were banned

Soviet political leadership insisted that music should glorify the achievements of socialism and provide inspiration for the future, but it also silence political,ethnic, and artistic expression

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Many songs were geared towards to support the US and its actions towards communism

Songs held the USSR completely responsible for the Cold War and they were portrayed as ungrateful for American support before the Cold War

Roy Acuff sang the song Advice to Joe in 1951 which warns Stalin about US superiority and how he will have no place to hide once the US drops atomic bombs on them

“There’s a Communist ambition now to rule or wreck us all with atomic ammunition they would like to see us fall”

Concepts of God, faith, heaven, and hell were incorporated into all of these songs

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Facilitated communication, enables meanings to be shared, and promotes the development and maintenance of individual, group, cultural and national identities

Both countries used music to win over support through soft power(influence/victory through imposition of culture)

War music helped raise awareness about the realities of what is happening among citizens and generate support while offering a space for cultural and political dialog