I was a child during the cold war, but I actually could not tell you one thing about any Russian person that I was told during that time, I still remember Stin

I was a child during the cold war, but I actually could not tell you one thing about any Russian person that I was told during that time, I still remember Sting's song Russians with the rhetorical lyric, "Do the Russians Love their Children Too?" Which is kind of the opposite of your point, since it wasn't Big Evil propaganda.