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To: Fiji Hill

Joe McCarthy was right.

Here’s a couple movies to have your kids watch:

Closet Land
The Lives of Others
The Killing Fields
Enemies of the People (more of a documentary)


5 posted on 09/26/2024 1:06:07 PM PDT by fruser1
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To: fruser1

The Inner Circle


8 posted on 09/26/2024 1:08:02 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: fruser1
Closet Land

I watched that movie back when it came out. It was put out by Amnesty International, which is now just as much in support of totalitarianism as it claimed to be against it back in the day. Alan Rickman was excellent in it.

11 posted on 09/26/2024 1:11:39 PM PDT by IYAS9YAS (There are two kinds of people: Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.)
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To: fruser1

Goodbye, Lenin!


12 posted on 09/26/2024 1:11:45 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: fruser1

“Lives Of Others” was extraordinarily powerful.

That scene where they were bugging the apartment, and the old lady was looking through the keyhole at them and the guy saw the light in the keyhole change and just marched over...

I think that is a pretty accurate portrayal of the mindset of omnipresent surveillance.


13 posted on 09/26/2024 1:14:53 PM PDT by rlmorel ("A people that elect corrupt politicians are not victims...but accomplices." George Orwell)
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To: fruser1

If you really want to get depressed, watch “The Chekist”.


16 posted on 09/26/2024 1:20:25 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: fruser1
A couple of documentaries on Youtube that I would recommend:

My Latvia (1954), a short documentary on the Soviet takeover of Latvia, is well worth watching.

Operation Abolition (1960) recounts a House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) hearing in San Francisco in the spring of 1960 and the efforts of leftists to disrupt it. It was widely distributed and presented by conservative and patriotic groups in the early 1960s and later picked up by liberal and leftist groups who saw it as an expose of anti-Communist "witch hunting."

17 posted on 09/26/2024 1:23:55 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: fruser1

Damn Right Joseph McCarthy was right. He was an American Hero, and should be considered one.


23 posted on 09/26/2024 1:36:03 PM PDT by rlmorel ("A people that elect corrupt politicians are not victims...but accomplices." George Orwell)
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To: fruser1

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.


32 posted on 09/26/2024 1:51:17 PM PDT by Orosius (“Wake America Up Again )
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To: fruser1

“The Lives of Others” was an excellent movie.


53 posted on 09/26/2024 6:19:45 PM PDT by left that other site ("Providence" ain't just a city in Rhode Island.)
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