Chinese soft power created through entertainment can and will climb if they support these industries.

  • Frogmanfromlake [none/use name]
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    2 months ago

    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.

      • Frogmanfromlake [none/use name]
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        2 months ago

        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!”

      • barrbaric [he/him]
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        2 months ago

        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).

    • RyanGosling [none/use name]
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      2 months ago

      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

    • miz [any, any]
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      2 months ago

      all I can remember is some types of high-quality caviar

    • doublepepperoni [none/use name]
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      2 months ago

      Finland wasn't a NATO member but some US media was censored or banned for being anti-Soviet during Finlandisation

    • miz [any, any]
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      2 months ago

      you specifically asked for cultural products and I responded with retail goods and appeared to have kicked off several similar replies. I'm sorry