Rolul culturii americane în prăbuşirea comunismului est-european
Abstract: The Cold War, which began immediately after the fall of World War II, which had a major period. The United States succeeded in operating in the community in Europe, through the Truman Doctrine (March 1947) and the Marshall Plan (June 1947).
In 1989, without enjoying the support of “the big brother from the east”, the Soviet Union, communist regimes in Central and Eastern Europe collapsed successively on the basis of the so-called “principle of the domino”.
The twentieth century, an “American century”, is foreshadowed, however, it cannot be equated in the arithmetic sense, but rather, as a balance of maximum synthesis of the age.
The sympathy towards the United States and the American model manifests itself, lately, in the late 1980s and in the socialist state. The American experience is especially for central Europe and responds to the end of communist ideology, if it is not a “copy” model, then it may be a case of meditation and study.
Obviously, the American literature of the second half of the twentieth century also had an anti-communist tint, manifested with greater acuity in the 1980’s.
But, without a doubt, American media and cinema did not have a strong impact on the conscience of citizens from the south-east of Europe, within the Soviet sphere of the end of the Second World War. Freedom of the press was, in fact, inextricably linked to the efficiency of the American democratic system.
Media culture, a relatively recent historical phenomenon, will be a feared instrument of the United States in the overthrow of the communist regimes, being associated with bankruptcy in the country’s economies and with a growing distrust of the population in the political discourse in the party and state leadership. By means of express sales, the American media culture was a ray of hope of care, millions of citizens from the Iron Curtain space clashed, opposing decades in a row, but they cared and never lost confidence in the return of democracy and the present sympathy in America, considered possible for their salvation.
