PART A: Which TWO statements express the central ideas of the text? A. The Soviet Union directed its civilians, particularly its intellectuals, to promote art and ideas that captured Russia and ignored or insulted the West.
B. The Soviet Union responded to propaganda originating from the West, by reaffirming and celebrating the culture and traditions of Russia.
C. While the Soviet Union didn’t approve of the West’s economic and political structures, it continued to take inspiration from its art and science.
D. The identification and punishment of intellectuals who promoted western ideas in the 1940s proved to be more aggressive than the purge in the thirties.
E. The Soviet Union presented the West as morally corrupt to make their citizens more susceptible to the notion that the Soviet Union would have to engage the West in nuclear war.
F. By discrediting the West and promoting Soviet values, the Soviet Union was able to promote national pride, while reinforcing communist ideology.