And not the biography of William Shatner
In another sub someone said Americans should thank the USSR for defeating the Germans in WWII, or they may have invaded the U.S.; this led to a debate by a lot of people.
Personally, I find this very hard to believe, but what do you think?
I really thought this question would be cool to gauge your guys’ thoughts. War films are probably my favourite genre of film right now, but I can’t decide which holistically has better films. But it seems to me that WWII gets all the star power.
World War I had the likes of 1917 and Lawrence of Arabia I guess.
But World War II has Fury, Saving Private Ryan, Dunkirk, Jojo Rabbit, Hacksaw Ridge, The Imitation Game, Inglorious Basterds and so many more. These are excluding all the films that talk about the Holocaust and resistance because those adds heaps more. Hundreds more.
What’s the reason for the disparity between WWII and WWI films produced?
Man, I did Nazi that coming.
WW II ended Sep 2, 1945, nearly 38 years later the NES was released on July 15, 1983 (Japan release). Feel old yet?
In his 2021 book "Collapse: the Fall of The Soviet Union" Yale historian Vladislav Zubok describes, among other things, the failed Soviet efforts at economic reforms. In the "Misguided Reforms" sections which begins at the end of page 27, Zubok states (emphasis my own):
>In early 1987, Gorbachev urged Rhyzkhov and his economists to produce a radical comprehensive reform of the Soviet economy. The key reform was Law on Socialist Enterprises. This document was the consummate product of the reformist cohort of Soviet economists, who sought to combine "socialism" with a state-regulated market...Gorbachev admitted that the passivity of people bothered him. Nobody could explain to him why, in those segments of the Soviet economy where self-financing and self-governance had been experimentally tried, production declined rather than increased.
What resources, if any, describe the scope and outcomes of these Soviet economic experiments?
I'm hoping for something layperson-friendly that covers [part of] the era after World War 2 but before Gorbachev became General Secretary in 1985.
Thanks to moderator u/canekicker for helping me out with my first post like this.
