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Brannigans Law · 10-27-2013, 09:37 AM

Really great so far. I stayed up watching it last night and since Friday or whenever I've got to episode 6 or 5. It's really good, but it definitely isn't very flattering about Americas foreign policy. Some notable things for me:

Truman is not portrayed very nicely. He's basically blamed for the cold war, renegging on deals with the USSR, and creating the climate of fear and distrust
Same with Churchill. He fanned the flames of the cold war in a lot of ways. This isn't really Oliver Stones assertion through 1st hand accounts either, Churchill publically did a lot of talk about the evil of the USSR
Krushchev is praised in a lot of ways for helping to de-escalate tensions and combat hard liners
The USA's history of regime change and installing brutal dictators who are capitlist friendly is astonishing, and I thought I knew a lot about that already
makes a very solid argument that the bombs dropped on Nagasaki and Hiroshima were more about establishing US as a nuclear monopoly and flexing it's muscle to USSR than ending the war (something that the Russians should be credited for)

10-27-2013, 09:37 AM	#3
Brannigans Law First Line Centre Join Date: Sep 2012 Location: Calgary AB Exp:	Really great so far. I stayed up watching it last night and since Friday or whenever I've got to episode 6 or 5. It's really good, but it definitely isn't very flattering about Americas foreign policy. Some notable things for me: Truman is not portrayed very nicely. He's basically blamed for the cold war, renegging on deals with the USSR, and creating the climate of fear and distrust Same with Churchill. He fanned the flames of the cold war in a lot of ways. This isn't really Oliver Stones assertion through 1st hand accounts either, Churchill publically did a lot of talk about the evil of the USSR Krushchev is praised in a lot of ways for helping to de-escalate tensions and combat hard liners The USA's history of regime change and installing brutal dictators who are capitlist friendly is astonishing, and I thought I knew a lot about that already makes a very solid argument that the bombs dropped on Nagasaki and Hiroshima were more about establishing US as a nuclear monopoly and flexing it's muscle to USSR than ending the war (something that the Russians should be credited for)