re: Turning Point: The Bomb and The Cold War - Netflix

Exactly, I was also concerned about a political slant on it, but it was really direct and accurate history. I highly recommend.

I will say that I have a very different view of Russia and Putin in particular. The fall of the soviet union really left a mess that the world is still dealing with today. The documentary really illustrates how countries like the US just breathed a big sigh of relief when USSR collapsed and then relaxed, clocked off work, and didnt do much else except worry about how to coral all of the nukes. When in reality Russia really needed quite a bit of assistance and guidance to transition to full market economy. Specifically to prevent the rise of the oligarchs and their corrupt power structure as it exists today. When the Soviet Union collapsed only a few select people took ownership of the bulk of important industries in Russia and became wealthy enough to control the country's politics from that point forward.

Probably the most interesting stuff to me was the constant attention to communism and how awful and full of corruption it was.