Talking Tetris — Ep. 110 of Intentionally Blank
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Tetris: The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Power
Golden Eye is still one of my favorite Bond movies because it is specifically about the fall of the Soviet power and the rise of other people in its wake. I thought that Tetris did a good job of conveying what some of that was like from the inside. To have KGB show up at your house in Tokyo is an unsettling event regardless of the context. They needed a face to the threat rather than just vague Soviet bureaucracy.
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