An article in the New York Times claims that Russian citizens want the "American dream": private property and a home of their own. The article was one of many that appeared during the 1950s and 1960s, as the American media attempted to portray the average Russian as someone not much different from the average American.
Despite the fact that the vast majority of Americans supported the anti-Soviet Unionpolicies of their government, most had a more difficult time trying to dislike the average Russian. During World War II, after all, the U.S. government had launched a propaganda campaign to convince the American people that the Russians--though they lived in a communist nation--were good allies in the war against Hitler's Germany.
Read more at : http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/russians-want-the-american-dream
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