Highly Recommended TV Series for History Buff's: Amazon's "Red Mafia"

Self | December 16, 2017 | PJ-Comix

[PJ-Comix]

There is a lot of crap on TV to be avoided but there is one series that I found supremely entertaining (and educational). It is "Red Mafia." It is a Russian production from 2011 but now available via Amazon Prime as you can see HERE.

It is not to be confused with the Russian Mafia of current times. This series is about Party corruption during the Soviet Era. And there was quite a bit of corruption all the way to the top. What makes this series especially entertaining is that it has a lot of humor. For example, Brezhnev (in his later years) comes off as a bumbling fool who speaks in an extremely slurred manner). KGB head Yuri Andropov plays a wiley clever game with his enemy the head of the MGB who is so terrified of Andropov that he attempts to have him arrested (I don't want to give away what happens).

Stalin also makes several appearances in this series. A group of Army deserters during WWII escape punishment by setting up a fake engineering brigade and end up not only making lots of money, but are given high awards for their services.

Believe me, you won't be disappointed watching this series of six episodes. I enjoyed every minute of watching them!

[PJ-Comix]

Try watching “Red Mafia” and decide for yourself. I learned a lot from watching that series. For example, it gave me an idea of how clever (as well as hated by his fellow commies) Yuri Andropov was. He was an evil guy but one has to admire how he outmaneuvered his opponents. He achieved the “impossible dream” of becoming head of the Soviet Union only to find out that Father Time gave him only months to live.

[bonfire]

Saving

[morphing libertarian]

I like a lot of streaming series and programs.

Black Mirror on Netflix has 3 seasons online 4 episodes per season. Each episode is a self-contained story. Kind of Twilight Zonish and mostly futuristic.

Now Amazon will counter with Philip K Dick’s Electric Dreams Jan 12. I’
ll check that out.

Liked Godless on NF and most any westerns.

Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee switching to NF for season 10 next month. I like seinfeld and the insights into stand up. Some of the conversation is funny. Each episode is a different comedian so you can pick your favorites.

[Publius]

“Turn! Washington’s Spies,” the AMC series of which the first 3 seasons are on DVD.

[CharlesOConnell]

Illinois Democrats were once conservative

How did it come about that
the Archdiocese of Chicago undercut Catholic legislators
resisting contraception programs targeted against
Chicago-area African-Americans?

Again, we have to turn to our declared enemies—in this case a journal trumpeting the contraception and abortion line—for a candid account of the betrayal of our cause by our own leaders.

Illinois Aid Commission Article
Drew Pearson, March 3, 1963

In 1963, the non-Catholic governor of Illinois, Otto Kerner, appointed a non-Christian millionaire, auto-parts industrialist and art connoisseur Arnold Maremont, to chair the Illinois Public Aid Commission, successor to an Emergency Relief Commission created in the Depression.

Maremont was adamant that contraceptives be provided at State expense, explicitly targeted at African-Americans, first in the Chicago area, with plans to go statewide later. In this he was resolutely opposed by Catholic lawmakers—a majority of whom were Democrats—who passed legislation in the Springfield statehouse outlawing the plan.

But defeat was suddenly snatched from the jaws of victory (to mix up a metaphor) when, after a confidential meeting in the back of a proverbial, black limousine between a high official of the Archdiocese of Chicago and a population-control official, the Church inexplicably okayed Maremont's plan.

Confused Catholic lawmakers went along with this stark reversal of the continuous course of Church teaching since the beginning. Today, two generations after the detritus of the sexual revolution has settled down, the proportion of European-American children born to single mothers stands at about 40%, the same as the rate of non-marital births during the 1960s to African-Americans. Thus we see that, in the treatment of our society's less privileged members, "what goes around comes around".

We might expect that members of ecclesial communities who have departed from the Catholic fold would fall for this, especially after the confusion sewn by the 1930 Anglican Lambeth Conference permitting contraception within marriage

But in acquiescing to the spirit of the age—an evil spirit, as Pope Paul VI warned—officials of the Archdiocese of Chicago shirked their duty and paved the way for the organized and coordinated dissent on the part of 600 Catholic "Theologians"—many of whom weren't theologians at all —against Humanae Vitae, the Church's 1968, authentic reiteration of its ancient, ordinary magisterial teaching on the inviolability of the transmission of human life in the marital embrace. The Chicago Archdiocese's arrogant cowardice would bear bitter fruit a decade later, in the Roe and Doe decisions which have cost the lives of more than 50 million American children.

[sparklite2]

It’s not subtitled is it?

[D-fendr]

>>”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kl14TfFWMg";

Yep.

This might give an idea:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kl14TfFWMg

[Stevenc131]

Broadchurch, Seasons 1,2,3. Seasons 1 & 2 were the best although season 3 was still very good. Overall the best TV the wife and I have watched in a long time.

[knarf]

Binging on HOLLANDER on NETFLIX now ... another well written series.

Hellywood is toast.

[knarf]

We liked Frontier

[ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton]

Oh, cool I thought it would be about organized crime!

[Mears]

“Fearl
ess”===Amazpn

“Fearless”——Amazon is very good.

[PJ-Comix]

Oh, cool I thought it would be about organized crime!

That's what I thought as in Russian Mafia. However, it is about corruption in the communist bureaucracy during the Soviet era.

[Nifster]

Why do I want to give Jeff Beni’s more money?

[Inspectorette]

Am loving "The Crown" on Netflix. For those of us old enough to remember the young Queen Elizabeth and Prince Phillip, it brings out so many different details about their relationship, and the difficulties they encountered.

Supposedly, Queen Elizabeth has seen the series and has given it her stamp of approval.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Bkmrk.

[FrdmLvr]

Thank you. Always looking for something I can sink my teeth into.

If you’re looking for suggestions, The White Queen I thought was very good. It’s about Elizabeth Woodville, wife of Edward IV, and the women behind the Kings. White refers to the House of York. I noticed it on that Prime page.

[FrdmLvr]

Yes, Mind Hunter was very good. There will be a season 2.

[FrdmLvr]

The Americans on FX is also an excellent series. It been around a few years, I think past shows are carried on Netflix.

[FrdmLvr]

I wonder if anyone can help me with a title. I started watching a good documentary but had something come up and had to take a break from it. I’d like to resume watching it, but I can’t find it anywhere. It’s about an all-girl Catholic high school out east in the 70s and it revolves around the disappearance of a likeable nun who taught there.