What the left (and their media comrades) is trying to do to our children today!----What were the things Soviets were told about the world outside the Iron Curtain?

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What were the things Soviets were told about the world outside the Iron Curtain?

John Dewar Gleissner, History Buff for 40+ Years--Updated Aug 20, 2017

Soviet citizens were told the Americans were oppressed by the rich and that we did not live any better than Soviet citizens. 

President Nixon arranged a cultural exchange whereby ordinary Russians visited the USA and Americans visited Russia.

One Russian lady, a confirmed communist, visited the USA on a cultural exchange and was taken to a modern grocery store/supermarket. 

This lady chose which direction the car should drive so that she would get an objective sample of American grocery stores. 

She walked into the store, saw abundance she’d never seen in the USSR, and burst out crying. 
Some emotional reaction was common when people from communist countries visited American supermarkets for the first time.

Communism always produced shortages of food and provided limited selections; to buy groceries most communists had to stand in lines..."
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