The Denim Trick: How American Jeans Were Said to Be Used to Influence People During the Cold War.


The Denim Trick: How American Jeans Were Said to Be Used to Influence People During the Cold War.

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The Denim Trick: How American Jeans Were Said to Be Used to Influence People During the Cold War.

Historian Yuri Mukhin believes that American blue jeans were a secret plan to destroy the Soviet Union. He says patriotic psychologists and energy healers helped him discover this. Mukhin thinks jeans make people have bad thoughts against the government.

Mukhin says the CIA hired many actors to pretend to be regular Americans who loved wearing jeans. This was all a trick to make Soviet people want jeans too.

According to Mukhin, Soviet citizens were tricked into believing Americans were happy and well-fed because they wore jeans. These fake Americans were like a show, pretending to be normal people.

Mukhin says that jeans only became popular in America after the Soviet Union collapsed. He believes America then started importing jeans from Belarus.

Mukhin still thinks jeans are a tool to control people's minds. He says they are used to control people both inside and outside of America.


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What does historian Yuri Mukhin believe about American blue jeans?

He believes they were a secret plan to destroy the Soviet Union.

What did Mukhin say about the CIA and jeans?

He said the CIA hired actors to pretend to be regular Americans who loved wearing jeans.

What does Mukhin think about the popularity of jeans in America?

He thinks jeans only became popular in America after the Soviet Union collapsed.


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