[_pi]

The Iron Curtain was the barrier erected by the Soviets to prevent American media into the USSR. Not to prevent Soviet media into America.

What are you even talking about?

[yks]

It doesn't matter who erected the barrier, the end result is that the USSR was not able to run successful influence campaigns or inject money into the US politics on the scale Russia is doing today.

[_pi]

Yeah because the internet didn't exist.

[metabagel]

USSR was an oligarchy before. Now it is a dictatorship, so operations have a single decision maker. Also, Putin is highly interested in ops which extend his influence and his ability to steal.