Cultural Diplomacy during the Cold War: Norwegian Women visiting the Soviet Union in the Summer 1955In spite of the Cold War, the expansion of Soviet-Norwegian relations went through a positive phase in 1955 with the Norwegian Prime Minister Einar Gerhardsen visiting the USSR for the first time. Soviet propaganda on the socialist state's achievements was being greatly emphasized. Against this background, I consider a case of bilateral cultural diplomacy -the visit of a delegation of ten Norwegian women to the Soviet Union. On the basis of material from the Soviet Women Anti-fascist Committee's archive, the article describes and analyses visits to Leningrad, Moscow and Stalingrad. The visit ended tragically with the deaths of the delegation in a plane crash near Voronezh. Nevertheless, the organization and course of the visit itself demonstrate how Soviet power was used to create a positive image of the USSR in public opinion in the capitalist West.
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