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Lukas 2022-02-02 08:16:20
Reds - the death of idealism.
"Four million people died not of war, but of a system that didn't work." Young people with enthusiasm who wanted to change the world eventually became a prisoner, a tool to be used; make decisions. "When you kill dissent, you kill revolution." Revolution is dissent, giving everyone a voice and a...
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Bryon 2022-02-02 08:16:20
"The Beacon and Red Flames of Love": The idealist's head is broken and blood is broken
I don’t know if the male protagonist in the film is an early “Snowden”. He once came to Russia with idealism and a romantic wife, trying to find an ideal political system to rescue capitalism, but he died in a foreign country at the age of 32. More than half a century later, another idealist,...
George Plimpton
George Plimpton, actor, participated in "Infamous" in 2006, "The Simpsons" in 1989, and "Saturday Night Live" in 1975.
Extended Reading
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Pete Van Wherry: Bolsheviks, Sandy! The Bolsheviks! Jesus Christ, if the Bolsheviks get in, Sandy, you can just bend right over and kiss your ass goodbye.
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Pete Van Wherry: You want to walk down the Champs-Elysées someday and see 500,000 Krauts come barreling out of Fouquet's? You better hope that the Bolsheviks are small potatoes. Now, let's have another drink. Waiter!
