Posted on 09/26/2024 12:59:19 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
And, I must say, I didn’t think I would, but I loved “The Death of Stalin”. I really didn’t think I could laugh at that, but...in spite of it, I did!
Hitler invaded the Soviet Union in June 1941, not in September 1939. September 1939 is when Hitler invaded Poland. (Later in the month Stalin invaded Poland from the east.)
Damn Right Joseph McCarthy was right. He was an American Hero, and should be considered one.
Very, very powerful movie.
Now...Imagine East Germany with the technology of today. Scary. Oh, wait. That might be Communist China and the USA now.
Well, perhaps without the fabled Teutonic efficiency.
The dumb asses on the Left always get HUAC mixed up with Joseph McCarthy and treat them as one and the same.
They made a lousy version of Berlin Tunnel 21. Gene Hackman made Target, supposedly about East Germans, in 1985. But they didn’t have very many in it. Linda Blair made another one about East Germans around that time, but once the wall fell and the USSR crashed, there was nothing from Hollywood. They were in mourning, and made Philadelphia and The Crying Game instead.
That was why they went after Nixon. They wanted his scalp ever since he was on HUAC, and they finally got it.
I must admit, one of the movies from the 1980s that I really enjoyed was “Gotcha!”
And yes, I would have killed or die to make love to Sasha Banachek.
There was a really good Polish TV series called “Stulecie Winnych”, about life in a Polish village from WWI up to 1989, and they really captured what life was like in Communist Poland during the Stalinist years.
There is a movie called Yank Tanks about Cubans maintaining cars from the ‘50’s, left there when communism took over. Because it is communist, people can’t simply buy parts, so most of the parts are hand crafted. The people crafting the parts can’t simply buy the material to do so because, again, the government controls what they can do, and because they are not recognized as auto repair, they are not allowed to possess the material. People search the beaches for washed up pieces of metal which the fabricators do an amazing job turning in car parts. But again, they are violating the law by making and selling parts, so get around that, they make parts for free for government officials, who in return they look the other way.
The movie was about the cars, but the look into communism was amazing.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0312048/
“The Lost City” is a good movie about Cuba after the Revolution.
Kazan’s MAN ON A TIGHTROPE, starring Fredric March as a Czech circus ringmaster trying to smuggle his troupe out from behind the Iron Curtain, has some pungent scenes of communist scumbaggery.
The Nazis were national socialists. Because hollywood and the universities were pro socialist—north america and europe have spent roughly 70 years demoting and hunting down nationalists and promoting and lauding socialists.
Something that bothered me a lot in the 60s was Hollywood making the KGB the good guys and the Americans the bad guys, that was a common theme even when the Russian intelligence forces were not involved the Americans were the bad guys in the biggest movies.
Sounds like a gripping subject. Too bad the movie does not exist.
The 1994 Russian movie "Burnt by the Sun" is about about Stalin's oppression of the Kulaks. It is a very good movie.
And in the 80s, the Chinese became the good guys, especially in “Red Dawn”.
That was when China was pretending to be our friend, while we sent all our manufacturing over there.
I watched the “Yank Tanks” trailer, and I would like to see the entire film.
In the 1960s, when communists finally got their fingers into the WH and federal agencies (other than the Department of State, which continued its 4th decade of being the U.S. headquarters for the communist movement), the need to begin the implementation of censorship of thought and speech required Hollywood to take one of the early steps...
In addition, the communists-controlled the teachers union began, openly, adopting basic Soviet-style indoctrination techniques for use in public schools at all levels...
The combination of controlling both the entertainment industry and the nation’s education system has paid off handsomely...
Americans have been transformed into a society of the most servile and uneducated peasants in history...
: courageous Solidarity unionists against a Communist military junta;
Another good Polish movie “Death As A Slice Of Bread” (Smierć Jak Kromka Chleba) about the Wujek Coal Mine Massacre.
And if there ever was a story that should be told in a movie, it’s that of Witold Pilecki.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witold_Pilecki
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