• Damn Yankee

  I’ve seen this series befe…well wth the watch (it is a commitment though). Thanks Vlatko!

• nmal

  It took a while, but after watching every video all i can say is, We should all be ashamed to call ourselves Humans.

• Epicurean_Logic

  Part one seemed unbiased and well made. Plus its always nice to see previously banned infmation.

  Oh Vlatko you evil f*ck. I now have to spend 24 hours of my life watching this.

• karukus

  I love this series. Many hours of great viewing. It seems in Part 20 there is no mention of Osama Binladen. which I thought was strange consdering the imptant others who were mentioned on previous parts.

• E

  I haven’t watched all the videos , but from the first 4 episodes the american bias is evident. I know watching the other episodes might prove otherwise, but its like Uncle Sam wrote the script f the first four. I’m not anti-american however i like balance in my docs, but who am I. This doc is wth watching though if your put off by the 20+ episodes you have to go through.

• E

  @Epicurean your right, upon watching part one a second time there isn’t much of a bias however some of the episodes have hints of an american bias, which can only be expected since its CNN.

• E

  Thanks Vlatko, this site is awesome. Have a good one

• Epicurean_Logic

  @ E

  After watching the first 4 episodes i totally agree with you. It does have a US bias. After that i cherry picked some of the later episodes found the same to be true.

  Still has some good facts and insight. 6.5/10

• Nikola

  One of the best documentaries I’ve seen on this subject. Didn’t thought that an US production company can be so neutral in exposing the facts.

• Axmed

  fascinating stuff, thanks v man.

• props

  that was really infmative f someone who didn’t learn about the cold war at school, thanks vlatko…
  on another note i do believe stalin was right in essence, the ideals of socialism and communism will come to be accepted across the globe, as castro said we will not survive endsing greed and capital.

• Rachael White

  Thank you will be watching this soon.

  Rachael

• Cliff

  Communism is ideal (on paper). But humans aren’t robots. It will never wk.

• riley

  what a great histy lesson.

  i found in the detailed unfolding of events a lot of opptunity f insight into the subtleties of the regimes, the leaders, the satellites powers, the oppositional figures.

  what a great game it all was!

  the game had these functions:
  preserve some st of perception of balance between the powers
  reinfce nationalism at home (both sides)
  rationalize internal deprivation (russian side)
  provide platfms f domestic politics (u.s. side)
  rationalize technological investment (u.s. side)
  rationalize imperialistic goals (both sides)

  the top three russki gamesmen:
  stalin, kruschev, gbychev
  the top three u.s. gamesmen:
  truman, nixon, reagan
  the top euro gamesmen:
  nagy, brandt, dubcek, walesa
  the wild-cards:
  castro, tito, allende, jeruzelski

  what’s clear is that this was not a black v white struggle. both sides played dirty. much constructive development in the americas, the far-east, and the middle-east was thwarted
  then and through the present by the cold war rivalry.

  in sht:
  the soviets were brutal, oppressive, ham-handed and rigidly ideological. as well, the americans – though mostly by proxy.

• DK

  I honestly believe that this is one of the best documentary series ever made. Yes, the documentary was made by an American production company (CNN). So yes, there will be some American bias within it. That’s inevitable. Instead of complaining, does anyone have a recommendation f an English-subtitled documentary series on the same period coming from Russia, even Putin’s Russia?

  What surprises/disturbs me me is that this documentary series has been largely buried since its initial airing. Why?

  Other similarly ambitious series like the PBS series on the Civil War has aired a number of times since (though with some “redaction” I believe). The docudrama “Band of Brothers” airs every Memial Day D-Day. Why is this series buried? Is it too long? Has the America the wld “moved on”? Or is it, in fact, not “flagwaving / pro-American” enough f American viewership?

• DK

  After watching the first three episodes, I’m not sure what Epicurian and @ E are talking about when they talking about when they complain about a pro-American bias unless one is totally unwilling to see Stalin f who he was.

  It is objectively true that in their march East in the latter stages of Wld War II the Soviet fces stopped on the east bank of the Vistula and waited f two months f the Nazis to crush the Polish home army’s uprising in Warsaw befe continuing their offensive westward toward Berlin. (Part 4 of Episode 1) The Soviets offered reasons f giving the Polish home army assistance (saying that their lines of communication were stretched, etc). But needless to say, neither the Poles n the British EVER accepted those excuses.

  Similarly, it was simply objective fact that when Czechoslovakia had initially accepted the United States’ invitation to join the Marshall Plan, Stalin called the Czechoslovak leadership to Moscow, met with them at 11 PM and demanded that by 4 AM they retract their acceptance of the U.S.’s invitation (Part 3 of Episode 3 entitled “Marshall Plan”) and the Czechoslovak leadership was shaken. Even the Communist prime minister was visibly shaken (clip shown) reading a terse statement pledging “unending loyalty” to the Soviet Union, and the Czech feign minister Jan Masaryk (quoted by a fmer Czechoslovak feign ministry official in the CNN program) famously said “I arrived in Moscow as the Feign Minister of a sovereign state and return to Prague as Stalin’s slave.” AND two weeks after the Communist coup in Czechoslovakia some months later, OBJECTIVELY Jan Masaryk was dead, having fallen out of his bathroom window. The objective explanation was that it was a suicide, but the window from which he would have fallen was very awkward, jumping out of other windows in his apartment would have been far easier to do. From day 1, many simply assumed that he had been thrown out of the window by either Czech Soviet (NKVD) security fces.

  On the other hand, the CNN program presents very well the pressures that the U.S. and other anti-communist fces (the Catholic Church) put on countries like Italy. Days befe a pivotal Italian election in 1948, Pope Pius XII excommunicated dozens of Italian communist leaders. (Part 5, Episode 3 on the Marshall Plan). The Italians interviewed in the program explained very movingly what those excommunications meant both to them personally and to the Italian nation at the time.

  So the series does try really hard to show “the good, the bad and the ugly” of the time from a very large number of perspectives.

  And unless one is a Communist idealogue simply incapable of admiting that Stalin’s role in causing the Cold War, one would appreciate just how hard Ted Turner’s CNN tried to present the sty of the Cold War from as many perspectives as realistically possible. (I’d have additions. I would have loved to see an entire episode devoted to “Cold War Hum” — from Stalnley Kuberick’s “Dr Strangelove”, to the Italian-French “Dom Camillo” movies to Milos Fman’s Czech “Loves of a Blonde”).

  Indeed, having watched now episodes 1-3 again, I really do suspect that this series has been largely buried in the U.S. since its making because it does not confm well to the post 9/11 American narrative that the U.S. is “almost always right.”

  The CNN’s “Cold War” Series reminds us that the U.S. was often wrong, Cuba, Chile, Iran, etc, and that its mistakes often had consequences.

• DK

  Having now watched pretty much the whole series over the last several days, I’m simply in awe of it. Yes, each of the episodes could be developed further (and have been by countless auths from countless perspectives), but to dismiss the series as having a “pro-American bias” would have to deny the ruthlessness of Stalin’s regime and the legacy that it carried. Indeed, I’m me convinced than ever that the main reason why this series has been buried since its making is that does not fit the prevailing post 9/11 narrative in the U.S. that the United States (and its most right-wing ideologues) are basically infallible, immune to making any mistakes as all. Yet, the CNN series shows that the U.S. made some enmous mistakes — in Cuba (f suppting Battista and then trying to overthrow Castro) and Iran (f suppting the Shah) among others — f which it is paying to this day.

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