How the Soviet Union Opened to the World - Cold War DOCUMENTARY

Our historical documentary series on the history of the Cold War continues with a video in on the Moscow Youth Festival of 1957 - the event that opened the Soviet Union to the world and allowed the leadership of the USSR to present a new side of the country to a wider public Taiwan Under the Kuomintang Dictatorship: https://youtu.be/nGYzXNpQclo What Happened to the German and Japanese POWs?: https://youtu.be/JLK1xQV9B84 Operation Paperclip: https://youtu.be/17cNgMpBiWw German Expulsions: https://youtu.be/zyWx4p4hiaY Soviet Education System: https://youtu.be/AD_JwbivtMA How Khrushchev Fed the Soviet People: https://youtu.be/qIZDa7ZcUhE Novocherkassk Massacre 1962: https://youtu.be/b06Gfm2QVxY Soviet Tourism: https://youtu.be/t9KrH-xG20Q Soviet Passport System: New Serfdom or Reform?: https://youtu.be/Dgr9F3WFsbo Kaliningrad: How Russia Got a Stronghold in Europe: https://youtu.be/QD6IWHFkYpc How the Soviets Won the Early Space Race: https://youtu.be/skyrA0l9erI Soviet Television and Radio: https://youtu.be/YcBKRMJI7Ck Top-5 Myths About the Soviet Union: https://youtu.be/eMBh5zbN3K4 Support us on Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/TheColdWar Youtube membership https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCGvq-qmjFmmMD4e-PLQqGg/join ✔ Merch store ► https://teespring.com/stores/thecoldwar ✔ Patreon ► https://www.patreon.com/thecoldwar ✔ Facebook ► https://www.facebook.com/thecoldwartv ✔ Instagram ►http://www.instagram.com/thecoldwartv Sources Peacock, Margaret, “The perils of building Cold War consensus at the 1957 Moscow World Festival of Youth and Students,” Cold War History, Vol.12, No.3 (2012) Koivunen, Pia, Performing Peace and Friendship: The World Youth Festivals and Soviet Cultural Diplomacy (Oldenbourg, De Gruyter: 2022) Tsipursky, Gleb, Socialist Fun: Youth, Consumption, & State-Sponsored Popular Culture in the Soviet Union, 1945-70 (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2016) ​​https://www.rbth.com/history/335295-world-festival-youth-65 https://www.rbth.com/history/330727-how-soviet-union-discovered-jeans https://vestnik-mgou.ru/Articles/View/14267 (Russian) https://soviet-art.ru/6th-world-festival-of-youth-in-ussr/ https://www.academia.edu/19007478/MOSCOW_SUMMER_NIGHTS_Impressions_of_the_1957_International_Festival_of_Youth_and_Students https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP80-01445R000100050001-2.pdf #ColdWar #USSR #Communism #WorldYouthFestival #Khrushchev #Soviet #SovietUnion #Moscow