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Surely his body double?
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Religion and the rise of capitalism.
The Great Depression gave rise to less antipathy to the Soviets and Communism, more radical politics in some western countries, including France.
Then along came the Spanish Civil War, which rattled Christians, particularly Catholics. There was renewed scare o about atheist Russia, Billy Graham Crusades supported by Anglicans and Protestants, private school kids packing the MCG at his rallies. On the Catholic side, Santamaria and the Split, the attachment to the DLP, set off by the Petrov Affair…
The Church getting into bed with the Liberal and Country Party.
So much of the anti- communism was played out in Victoria, when it became the jewel in the Liberal crown.
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France24 has a reporter on the Ukraine side of the border with Kursk and has interviewed Ukraine soldiers who have been in Kursk. It is doing a series of reporting, including vids.
It has also reported that RAI, the Italian state TV, has reporters in Kursk, under the protection of the Ukraine military. Apparently Moscow has summonsed the Italian Ambassador to voice displeasure at their illegal presence.
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“We wanted to ask you, but since you don’t controll it, we thought it a waste of time”
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Где Путин? | Finding Putin | Official Response to Invasion (Eng subs) - Max Katz
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Bump
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Does he really have one?
I thought it was BS until the one a few posts up with the puffy face.
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It’s worrying how normalised this became in Hollywood, and my (our) ignorance how film is a significant contributing driver of cultural brainwashing.
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Perhapsthe most pernicious form of cultural brainwashing is the normalisation of gun violence. I mentioned this before but virtually every single American movie (except some kids shows and rom-coms) must feature someone pointing a gun at (and usually shooting) someone else. This rule is also observed in more arthouse type movies too, where it appears particularly out of place.
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C’mon man.
If Marxist-Maoist card carrying Comrade Chairman ArthurD was still on the forum he would absolutely take you to the cleaners for this opinion. Comparing Communism as an Ideology to a bogeyman (an imaginary threat used to scare children) is a flippant, erroneous and unthoughtful simplification of a complex and very powerful political and historical phenomenon. The U.S.S.R. was a powerful and hostile state that surpassed the USA in the 1950’s and early 1960’s in technological prowess and military strength. Lenin’s brand of Communism also followed Marx doctrine in that it preached International revolution ie Ideological world domination so the threat from it was very real.
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Hollywood films and the MCarthy era, the Hollywood 10 blacklist, the filmmakers like Joseph Losey ( his 1948 film the Boy with Green Hair) screenwriters like Dalton Trumbo who went undercover with aliases, actors who took refuge in the UK and Europe. However it was the making of English and European cinema, as they brought their skills there.
It didn’t happen in the Stage Theatre, New York kept its nerve.
It was the making of Ronald Reagan, a third rate actor, who learned his political skills in Hollywood. Elia Kazan saw his opening in the un- American hearings, got the financing for his films. On the Waterfront was smash the Unions. He has never been forgiven.
Gene Kelly was one of the good guys, as his blacklisted ex wife has written
Dudes, it’s the same formula from the Greek theatre times and even from before - a hero cannot exist without his evil nemesis.
However, the title is easily attributed most times
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I was referring to how it was portrayed in the 1950s under the rampant mccarthyism of the time, ie a campaign spreading fear of communist influence while carrying out the political repression and persecution of individuals believing in things like civil rights.
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right, got you.
Although, as overblown as it may have been in some cases, in others it was well justified: Pol Pot, Kim, Shining Path, etc.
But it was a hard stretch to ascribe that to any US or Canadian labour union or labour friendly politician - and the reupblicans are still doing it.
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