Hacker News Reader

Iron Curtain is what saved the US from being corrupted by Soviets. Now there is no barrier and Putin can freely use his unlimited funds to "create outcomes" via corrupt US politicians. I'm surprised China didn't get to do it first but I guess they have a branding issue of being "godless commies". It's difficult to see how the modern West can withstand this corruption.

View on HN

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?

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.

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.

Yeah because the internet didn't exist.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com