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This Is Not Your Parents' Cold War

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The End of the Cold War

I saw all of these films as either a college student or a young graduate student, and again, it was just kind of woven into my life. I have 31 divisions, including an 11-pack divisions and another five in Czechoslovakia. And here's this opening scene where a mad Soviet general says, if only we can convince the West to give up its nuclear weapons, we can finally invade and take over the world. But after the end of the Cold War, that remarkable amount of pop culture knowledge and just general cultural awareness sort of fades away.

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