Recently, I watched several spy films of Harrison Ford in the 1990s, and also watched "Second-hand Time" by Alexei Shoevich. Things that happened at the same stage, completely different perspectives, processes, and emotions.
On the one hand, after the U.S. disintegrated the Soviet Union without a single shot, the United States looked around the world with satisfaction and confidence in itself. This "Patriot Game" and the value output in the series, the naive understanding of the world, the imaginary imaginary enemy, in short, I am the only one. On the other hand, it is the suffering of the people before and after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the living real world told by those oral histories.
Heaven and hell are actually next to each other, and the joys and sorrows of human beings are not the same.
If we look at Harrison Ford's films and Alexievich's books from such a horizontal perspective, it may be able to help us better understand the world, after and before the end of the Cold War, the choice of roads, strengths and weaknesses As the biggest experiment of the 20th century, the Soviet Union was demonized after its defeat, and the United States, as the winner, embarked on a low-intellectualization. This is an interesting contrast.
The books and movies of these two series, taken out alone, are not very good, but when they are viewed together, how can they not be embarrassed.
(ps, the movies of the Soviet Union and Russia are rarely watched, too deep. Compared with the United States, such a country really does not know how to understand the world.)
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