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On This Day: Van Cliburn, The Pianist That Broke The Cold War


April 13, 2021 at 11:40 pm by Jadon Bienz
Courtesy of Britannica
Newsflash: The Cold War was intense. The 40-some years that followed World War II were marked by increasing political tensions between the U.S. and Soviet Russia, leaching into almost all aspects of daily life. Beyond the pre-emptive nuclear war drills taught to school children and the constant threat of mutually assured atomic destruction, a cultural war was being fought. Politicians like Wisconsin’s notoriously accusatory Senator Joseph McCarthy capitalized on the “Red Scare” to gain power, while the Space Race served as a proxy to demonstrate scientific superiority between the two countries. However, one of the first cultural cracks in the Iron Curtain was struck by a pianist by the name of Van Cliburn. ....

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