If you're like me, you have asked yourself many times, why are there so few anti-Soviet movies

made by Western filmmakers?

Welcome back to another T-Rex talk. Very likely you have not asked yourself this question, but start

thinking about it. It's kind of interesting to me that there are tons and tons and tons of

anti-Nazi World War II movies that are made during World War II, unsurprising, because propaganda

is a thing, but that is the majority of the war movies that are made by Hollywood during the

Cold War. The Cold War is longer, and the victims of the various Soviet Holocaust outnumber

those of the Nazi Holocaust, and the potential for global war was higher that even what we

experienced during World War II, and yet, there's just not a

whole lot of movies about the Cold War. Now, there are quite a few movies where the Soviets and

the communists and various socialists and Marxists actually are pretty well lionized in these films.

Films that are critical of socialism, communism, or even Stalin himself, fairly rare.

Now, there are more of them now. They're starting to be a few. Hollywood did make, and a bunch of

fairly high-level Hollywood comedians made a film called The Death of Stalin, kind of lampooning

what the Soviet Union was like. But this is the sort of film that probably

would not have been made, even in the 80s, when some of that stuff was being criticized by

Gorbachev himself. There's a film called Bitter Harvest about the famines in Ukraine.

And now that Russia has invaded Ukraine and everybody in the intelligentsia and the mainstream media has picked sides,

we will probably start to see more anti-Russian films that are set during the Soviet Union times.

But for most of the Cold War itself, anti-Soviet films extremely rare.

Now, part of the reason for this is something that we have talked about before on the podcast,

which was in the 30s, people tried to paint there being only two sides in the 20th century conflicts.

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