The Soviet Obsession With Alarmism

There were essentially two competing thoughts. One of them was thewhat i call the soviet obsession with alarmism. Anything that came close to approaching bad news was just dismissed as alarmism. I wanted to show how that functioned, because it was still very much a part of their lives. They knew lennon, they had seen him. This was not some kind of strange cult that had been separated from religious founder by thousands of years. This was fresh. And i thought it was important to remind people, particularly in the west, there were still members, functioning, members of the communist party who had been alive during the revolution.