This chapter examines Stalinist texts that deal with foreign policy and international journalistic writing, poetry, and film. It explains how the culture of late-Stalinism Cold War culture reflected the “Other,” which was essentially the most fitting image of the “Self.” It describes the incessant process of modelling the Self through the image of the Other that smooths out the trauma of the incessant war that continued in Russia right up to Stalin's death. The chapter analyzes how Stalinist art could not completely de-realize life and how reality found an escape in Soviet Cold War art. It also looks into the uniqueness of cold war in its oxymoronic nature, expressing that the goal of cold war is the preservation of peace.
