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The fall of communism and democracy...

This is hours of BBC footage condensed into 7 one hour segments.

It is one amazing series of "snapshots" during a heckuva time for all those involved.

I have tons of thoughts but much of it revolves around wondering the bias in editing and producing the documentary.

I would love to see this thread fill with info from people who lived thru it, know more, have insights on particular events. To this end if you have a comment please indicate which episode (1-7) and a time stamp would be handy so folks can follow your thought.

I am still working my way thru. Shocked and appalled at how much I was unaware. Amazed at what I have seen. And I feel terrible for families which suffered during this debacle!
 
One to watch ...

I promised myself I'd watch his "Bitter Lake" years ago ... and never did. This is a reminder.

He's quoted as saying this on his wiki entry:
If you ask me what my politics are, I'm very much a creature of my time. I don't really have any. I change my mind over different issues ... What's astonishing in our time is how the Left here has completely failed to come up with any alternative...
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Spot on for me. Tragically so ...

Never more than in the UK has the left's inability to respond to the utter, utter, shambolic mess created by the current administration.

(Of course, the control of the dialogue by a self-serving right-wing media makes the chances of any airing of fresh ideas almost impossible – and any suggestion of 'the Left' initiates a rabid frenzy or hate/fear in the mainstream ... latest incarnation of 'Them' being refugees from the various crises we were contributors of the making of )
 
Thomas said:
Never more than in the UK has the left's inability to respond to the utter, utter, shambolic mess created by the current administration.
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Sadly you are 100% correct. It is a unique era in the history of the British left. A terminal prognosis was given with Thatcher's 1979 victory and sometime later Blair eagerly organized the funeral.

The critics of the left are no longer sherry-sipping gentlemen who read classics at Oxbridge nor are they portly Victorians declaring "there's trouble down at mill." What we have is a highly educated elite, worming its way into the fabric of society. Nowhere more so than in the media.

In the year of Thatcher's victory, the Communist and trade union leader Jimmy Reid was a well received guest on the Michael Parkinson TV chat show. Two years later poor old Michael Foot was being ridiculed on some front pages for his choice of jacket at a war memorial service. How far we have come.
 
The people and resources of the country got raped and pillaged while the oligarchs walked away with billions (including the foreign aid!)
 
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