I'm sure Canadians and Americans would have just loved to play under those conditions. Or for a man that was brought up in Stalinist USSR....taught to loathe everything about the west.
I don't know there did you get the idea, that Tarasov was taught to loathe everything about the west, but reality is much more complicated thing, as always.
Soviets weren't taught to loath everything, they were taught to loath
capitalists. This is a big difference. Usually, we were told, that ordinary people on the west are like us, but bad factory's owners, politicians and generals depress them. Some western labor activists usually prized by Soviet media for their fight for worker's rights. For example, Ted Lindsey could've been the Soviet media hero
. The same, BWT, was about any capitalistic country, not necessary western. Of course, as I said, reality was much more complicated, but the main idea was like this. That's why Tarasov would hardly had a problems with western players because of propaganda only.
Also, if you read what Tarasov wrote himself about Canadians, you'd see that he had great respect for Canadian players and coaches.