Did the USSR ever have this kind of soft power with any of their products? I genuinely don’t know if they had any tv shows, films, games, or music that NATO residents would try to pirate or get ahold of in big numbers.
Funny enough, Soviet cars are one of the biggest reasons I hear NATO residents talk about how bad the Soviet Union was. “They had terrible and inefficient cars!”
We can buy the rum by going to Canada, don't know about cigars. IIRC it's technically illegal to bring it back to the states but border agents don't care (provided you're white enough).
The AK rifle. Good ones cost thousands of dollars in the US (or maybe $600 if you’re lucky) because of import bans (both China and Russia). And most of them are Yugo or Romanian
Did the USSR ever have this kind of soft power with any of their products? I genuinely don’t know if they had any tv shows, films, games, or music that NATO residents would try to pirate or get ahold of in big numbers.
Surely there still isn't a person alive who doesn't want a Lada
Funny enough, Soviet cars are one of the biggest reasons I hear NATO residents talk about how bad the Soviet Union was. “They had terrible and inefficient cars!”
Cuban cigars and rum are definitely something Americans want but can't have
We can buy the rum by going to Canada, don't know about cigars. IIRC it's technically illegal to bring it back to the states but border agents don't care (provided you're white enough).
Tetris
That came pretty late in the Soviet union's time
The AK rifle. Good ones cost thousands of dollars in the US (or maybe $600 if you’re lucky) because of import bans (both China and Russia). And most of them are Yugo or Romanian
all I can remember is some types of high-quality caviar
Finland wasn't a NATO member but some US media was censored or banned for being anti-Soviet during Finlandisation
you specifically asked for cultural products and I responded with retail goods and appeared to have kicked off several similar replies. I'm sorry