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Turning Point: The Bomb and The Cold War - Netflix

Posted on 3/21/24 at 3:00 pm
Posted by WizardSleeve
Louisiana
Member since Sep 2011
1802 posts
Posted on 3/21/24 at 3:00 pm
Highly recommend watching this series. While I was very knowledgeable about the events, I think this program did an excellent job retelling the entire story of the Nuclear arms race, the rise and fall of communism, and associated geopolitics leading to current events today. I did not think it was politically slanted and was a great historical telling of events as they happened and interviews with some really interesting figures that were witnesses to these events as they occurred, for example Condoleezza Rice being in the state department during the fall of the Berlin Wall. Some interesting info contained that I did not know about many of these big world events.

Has anyone else watched it?

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Posted by TheBoo
South to Louisiana
Member since Aug 2012
4553 posts
Posted on 3/21/24 at 3:05 pm to
Call me paranoid, but with how the left is actively working to rewrite history, I'm reluctant to watch any historical documentary on Netflix, Prime, etc..
Posted by jrodLSUke
Premium
Member since Jan 2011
22298 posts
Posted on 3/21/24 at 3:05 pm to
I've seen most of it and it's really good. Seems to be a very honest portrayal of historical events surrounding Russia, the Cold War, and Putin. I haven't seen the Ukraine finale yet.

Didn't feel like this one was politically slanted very much at all. There are some Left Options here an there, but overall very balance. I'm surprised that this didn't turn out to be Ukraine propaganda; would love to see more productions like this one.

Posted by 1999
Where I be
Member since Oct 2009
29208 posts
Posted on 3/21/24 at 3:48 pm to
last episode turns into a ukraine suck fest though.

also typical leftists thinking trump won the election because of russian facebook memes.
This post was edited on 3/21/24 at 3:50 pm
Posted by Wednesday
Member since Aug 2017
15511 posts
Posted on 3/21/24 at 4:27 pm to
Our civil liberties and JFK were the casualties of the Cold War.

Every single awful thing the Fed Gvt has become can be traced back directly to the Cold War. Every single one.

The US beat the communists in USSR. The communists beat the US in the MIC.

It became every one of the worst traits of the communists in the State Department and the “conservatives” in the military.
Posted by BHTiger
Charleston
Member since Dec 2017
5128 posts
Posted on 3/21/24 at 4:32 pm to
I thought it was great with 2 exceptions.

Episode 2....OMB
Last Episode....OMB on steroids. Russian collusion was nauseating.

Never touched much on the presidential times of Johnson or Ford. The presidents before Johnson were heavy as was Reagan.
This post was edited on 3/21/24 at 4:33 pm
Posted by Rex Feral
Athens
Member since Jan 2014
11470 posts
Posted on 3/21/24 at 5:07 pm to
I'm not watching any biased documentary from Netflix
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