I got to episode 4 and had to just give it up. This is blatant agenda pushing/propaganda.
I'm an American who typically votes democrat, but I couldn't handle the agenda pushing.
It spends an inordinate time on American atrocities like CIA overthrowing foreign governments. But spends almost no time on anything Soviet (at least in the episodes i saw)
For example, it lightly touches on Stalin's Gulags, like barely at all. But we get a 10 minute false narrative about the Rosenberg's.
Here's the facts, they weren't innocent at all, literally not an opinion, Julius Rosenberg was a soviet spy, that is a fact you can look up right now.
They brought in his son to talk about how unfair it all was, his father was a literal Soviet Spy, and after their deaths, they were adopted by Communists because the rest of their families didn't want them. Which is tragic, but they are nowhere near unbiased.
After researching the sons, they have spent their whole lives trying to clear the names of their parents. When the documents were released that their father was undoubtedly a soviet spy (I believe this happened in 2008) they switched to just defending the mother.
Another thing that was quite absurd was they played 2 sequences of "mournful music" as it appeared in the Netflix subtitles. One when the Rosenburg's were executed and one when Stalin died. (Huh?)
What got me to stop watching was in episode 4 when the following line was used, "the Russians didn't want to be a military superpower".
After hearing that absurd statement, I realized that this wasn't going to be a fair, factual overlook of the cold war, something I would have loved to see.
It's a shame, because the visuals are excellent. But this isn't worth your time if you're looking for a fair accounting of the Cold War.
After the Cleopatra and Alexander "Documentaries", and now this disaster, these types of dramas is what we can expect from Netflix. Good looking stories, that are full of false information and agenda pushing.
I'm an American who typically votes democrat, but I couldn't handle the agenda pushing.
It spends an inordinate time on American atrocities like CIA overthrowing foreign governments. But spends almost no time on anything Soviet (at least in the episodes i saw)
For example, it lightly touches on Stalin's Gulags, like barely at all. But we get a 10 minute false narrative about the Rosenberg's.
Here's the facts, they weren't innocent at all, literally not an opinion, Julius Rosenberg was a soviet spy, that is a fact you can look up right now.
They brought in his son to talk about how unfair it all was, his father was a literal Soviet Spy, and after their deaths, they were adopted by Communists because the rest of their families didn't want them. Which is tragic, but they are nowhere near unbiased.
After researching the sons, they have spent their whole lives trying to clear the names of their parents. When the documents were released that their father was undoubtedly a soviet spy (I believe this happened in 2008) they switched to just defending the mother.
Another thing that was quite absurd was they played 2 sequences of "mournful music" as it appeared in the Netflix subtitles. One when the Rosenburg's were executed and one when Stalin died. (Huh?)
What got me to stop watching was in episode 4 when the following line was used, "the Russians didn't want to be a military superpower".
After hearing that absurd statement, I realized that this wasn't going to be a fair, factual overlook of the cold war, something I would have loved to see.
It's a shame, because the visuals are excellent. But this isn't worth your time if you're looking for a fair accounting of the Cold War.
After the Cleopatra and Alexander "Documentaries", and now this disaster, these types of dramas is what we can expect from Netflix. Good looking stories, that are full of false information and agenda pushing.
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