[ansel12]

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.

[dfwgator]

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.

[Fiji Hill]

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.