One well-known blogger in narrow circles argues that "the United States defeated the USSR not through an information war, but through a cultural one. This difference must be understood."
I disagree.
Let's take it apart.
CULTURE - The totality of human achievements in the subordination of nature, in technology, education, social order. Source: "Explanatory Dictionary of the Russian Language" edited by D. N. Ushakov (1935-1940);
The achievements in the USSR were more than enough.
The USA defeated the USSR not even on an aesthetic level. AESTHETICS - Greek. α'ίσθησις - feeling, sensation; German Ästhetik, from other Greek. αἴσθησι - "feeling, sensory perception." In the USSR, cinematography worked perfectly, giving the Soviet citizen a lot of feelings and experiences on various topics, such as comedies, dramas, romantic films - the acting is impeccable, the work of the operators is impeccable. Theatre, operas, museums, philharmonics - all this filled the Soviet man in abundance.
The USA defeated the USSR only when a shortage of products / goods was created, which usually cover the primary needs of a person, for example, shoes and clothing became scarce in 1986, a little later, furniture, then cars and housing for workers in factories and factories. Naturally, this situation caused anger, and the propaganda from the Voice of America radio began to cause envy, which grew into a national idea of the need for change to the songs of Viktor Tsoi. It remained to do the last action: to deprive Soviet citizens of blood in order to nullify a promising sales market - Soviet citizens swallowed ingenious nonsense when they couldn’t take money from passbooks, and salaries were delayed for 6-12 months.
Checkmate - the market was ready to absorb everything that was brought, and people were ready to sell a kidney, if only there was something to eat, eighth-graders were ready to sell themselves for a fried pie with apple jam ...
This is not an information war - the Soviet Union was destroyed physically, not informationally. Why did the citizens go for it? The answer is as simple as a door: the hope for the party, the hope for a stranger, instilled from the school bench by the Institute of Education played a key role - the citizens could not discern lies. After all, teachers could not lie to them, right?