You also have to realise how deep the indoctrination and culture of distrust went with the old guard. That General probably reached his elevated position by dogged and unwavering adherence to 'the party line', in which the U.S was seen as propagandists. I remember a Soviet pilot who defected to the West (can't remember his name). After his defection, he was taken out on the town in New York and he found it difficult to believe that the things he was shown were available to all. He thought it was all staged until he'd seen so much that he realised it had to be real.

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