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To: ansel12
In the mid-1960s, I became aware that there were not a lot of movies with Cold War themes and the ones that came out never showed our side winning. Movies either ended in a standoff, as in "The Russians Are Coming" and "Ice Station Zebra" or a nuclear holocaust, as in "Fail Safe," "Dr. Strangelove," and "The Bedford Incident."

On the other hand, numerous WWII films such as "Merrill's Marauders" and "The Longest Day" were coming out, and in these, our side always won. I began to wonder why so many movies refighting the dead-and-gone Third Reich and not our current adversary were coming out, and why we were never victorious in any films with Cold War themes.

This observation added to my growing skepticism about the liberal mindset that permeated our culture at the time.

42 posted on 09/26/2024 2:31:22 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: Fiji Hill

Communism has always been a true global threat and one that is still controlling a large part of the world’s population and fighting for control of the rest, but Nazism never was such a threat, it was a bloody but short lived Hitler WWII thing that was never going to catch on in the world, but it is associated with being white so for generation after generation it remains the great evil villain for Hollywood and politics, even on FR it is our biggest scary monster of world domination and growing power.


44 posted on 09/26/2024 3:00:30 PM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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