you know it's also a place where there's a lot of propaganda. to whatever policy the u.s. government is committed to do you can be sure all that hollywood will be following it within 12 months. out when i define a hollywood is they call it a tree manufacturer which are things true. but i think equally it's a propaganda factor. long after i 1st heard about it in the news i still couldn't believe this was this really how the united states sees the history of forward too but there it was the official white house page on a social network and it's clearly stated that it was america and great britain that defeated the nazis during the 2nd world war without even a word about the soviet union and the version on the official allegan website looks

even more discouraging there it turns out that world war 2 was started by germany and the soviet union it wasn't russia but france that took the brunt of it and in fact the u.s.s.r. didn't liberate the europe from hitler but occupied it it feels like the author either knows nothing about history or he does and wants to rewrite it all that makes those old how would movies that were made during the war seem even more remarkable american audience was presented with a totally different picture of the world and the soviet union back that in the next 30 minutes we'll learn how history has been written and rewritten through american cinema. in 1403 at the height to ford were to the united states release mission to moscow a film about a visit to the u.s.s.r. by american ambassador joseph davis who was splayed by actor walter houston. in n.c. . to the soviet union in the name of my government thank you the u.s.

ambassador arrives in the u.s. sorry harboring a degree of skepticism but on the whole what he sees there and what millions of american movie goers saw along with them breaks all the stereotypes about the soviet government of those times we keep experimenting to find ways to increase our efficiency and what kind of effect is this that looks different from the rest yesterday even though. it can usually be compared to. the american film might even make the u.s.s.r. look better than soviet propaganda pictures or books and we see modern army work in factories and friendly people who speak fluent english. oh how proud i would be if i could do that well with russian perhaps someday we shall all speak the same language if the wood producer even flirted with the idea of making a film like this they'd probably be branded as crazy but it was still possible back

in the 940 s. this is one of my favorite parts an aide tells at the american ambassador mr davis we need to check your office and this is why the high rank an american diplomat tells us and stop gossiping and stop listening to it we're here in a sense as guests of the soviet government not going to believe that they trust the united states to find until a prove otherwise and mazing. in fact the film a semi documentary it was based on a book written by a master davis himself so we're not talking about a fictional diplomat here but a very real one and he was so impressed with the soviet government that it seems he was ready to forgive a lot. of water source i q do. you wish to figure. out of time to throw. the new thank you. thank you. but it's not going. to see who do you by any of those who were there i believe so

that history will record you as a great builder for the benefit of mankind it is not my mr davies out of 5 plans were conceived and carried out by the people themselves again this is how they would this isn't soviet propaganda the movie itself. is the purge trials that were taking place in the soviet union it's really apologies for the stalin this government but that was acceptable in 1943 you could do that another hollywood film from the time the north star depicts liason a soviet collective farm on the eve of the war the american audience doesn't hear a word about collectivization or of the dispossession of independent farmers. the soviet presence look well fat and are so happy they sing at the end of their war day. was the filmmakers even went to the trouble of translating the lyrics of a famous sabia song why is my motherland and made american children learned by

heart and. i. was. the north star it was produced by samuel goldwyn co-founder of one of hollywood's most successful film companies metro goldwyn mayer. but understand why a famous american producer shot such a blatantly propagandistic picture we need to go to the archives of the library of congress where a document from the so-called office of for information of the united states is still stored. more information was established in 1942 by the roosevelt administration was basically

a propaganda effort. limited time to get into the legal residents and you said they're going to be excused but it will of. franklin roosevelt knew that if he wanted to actually turn american public opinion in to supporting the war and even more so in supporting our soviet allies during the war he was going to need to use that would. lead a lot of what was going to davis cup one of the classes. for sally. in profile down the door they need to. do is cheat is the new feeling. and. i think. sometimes the officer for information commission how they would musical comedies like this is the army which were intended to increase the prestige of military

service and raise the morale of soldiers fighting overseas one of the roles in that film was played by a young actor named ronald reagan the future president of the united states. i've missed you too plenty. of thing i'd like to explain. that there were other orders that were in so benevolent in 1942 after pearl harbor president roosevelt ordered the forced relocation of 120000 japanese people from the west coast of the united states is hard to believe but in those years japanese americans were simply put in buses and sent to specially created internment camps in the u.s. territory the officer for information was staffed with providing media to support this monstrous initiative. japanese fishermen had every opportunity to

watch the movement of our ships. japanese farmers were living close to. the propaganda that the japanese really are going to be act on behalf of the japanese government has sabotaged the war effort and put arsenic in american food and blow up the defense so there was none of that but the office of war from asian produced various documentaries defending this practice. but the office issued very different instructions concerning the u.s.s.r. the soviet union was to be portrayed as a friend of them. in distress. in the north star in this soviet presence peaceful life is interrupted by the not seen

beijing. after the germans captured the village they begin taking the children's blood for transfusions for their wounded soldiers. the north star was nominated for 6 academy awards and 944 according to declassified documents the office so for information commanded its contribution to building a positive image of russia. in this presentation of the suffering and courage of the russians will shown that the strength of russia lies in its people who are willing to give their lives to keep their countrymen from fascist slavery and to ensure a free world football man. none the less the authors did ask hollywood to make if he edits to the script 1st to emphasize that the ideologies of the u.s.s.r.

and germany were completely different and this is why the conflict broke out and secondly to show through the young characteristics that the u.s. and russia can work together when peace comes. it was not an accurate portrayal of pain even if you've the imagination however they did follow the state of washington and. propaganda a lot of propaganda films including major hollywood of the time. another pro soviet film released by hollywood during the war years called days of glory tells the story of a detachment of soviet partisans the group's leader was played by biting. nollywood actor gregory peck. gregory pack was the brad pitt of the 19 fifties and sixties he starred alongside audrey abercorn in roman holidays in 1953 and in 1962 pack won an oscar for his

performance as atticus finch in the adaptation of the cult american novel ought to kill a mockingbird but the sex symbol and a lace star was still an unknown actor back in the $940.00 s. he's debut role in hollywood was as a solvent part isn't later named latimer are a surrogate for you a guy. thank you now some problems. west new diminished of gold if not i mean i when they have been it would say well let's not sell a syria bus with a propaganda but also it's you've got to know. your your part not really would be seriously we had to change american thinking about the soviets and we did so successfully it wasn't only hollywood that participated in the campaign to improve the soviet union image leading newspapers and magazines were also involved here for

example is what the american media wrote about lattimer lenin in those years well you know doesn't buy chortle to the greatest level of more than a time. somebody's mere lists you won't spot still sort of meet all of. a book tiny in you can be many lost a sympathetic by goal been there by the tsunami alone is learned from new york times and that was the sentiment during the war that the soviets were brave her roic and resisting the nazis and so we downplayed the crimes of stalin and the repressive aspects in all of american writing or propaganda during the war including in the hollywood films that's going to change of course after the war once the cold war begins with the onset of the cold war the task became more difficult now they needed to find a way to explain to americans that our soviet friends were friends no more and in fact they were now animists they also have to imply that some of the things that

had been shown about them previously were not entirely true. backscatter survival guide looked a single malt to start simply reading all these are. you sure you don't get them back. oh heck no. this is a repatriation scheme we're good the rest is 7 years. philip a separate kaiser report. nuclear power become a battleground in the u.s. in vermont people of demanding the shutdown of a local plant from my yankee is right now my focus because it's a very dangerous medicare power plant the owner is attempting to run the reactor

beyond its operational limit this case just sort of puts a magnifying glass on where's the power in this country where is it going is it moving more towards corporate interests or is it more in the idea of a traditional the gist of the. power lie with the people this case demonstrates that struggle in very real ways our struggle on r.t. . for a merger who would. order .

entry control of ski was the 1st soviet filmmaker to leave for our wood before the collapse of the u.s.s.r. . 989 he directed an action comedy starring sylvester stallone and kurt russell called tango and cash by that time he'd already realized that hollywood wasn't the place he'd originally imagined. as. you usually are. it was more. shy. burgess ignition. lead you could drop in. for new years in america because you'll know by sure.

you know former bridges officials confirm or. are sure. to confirm ready. despite making a serious of successful films in the us including tango and cash runaway train and maria's lovers and reconsider lost his saboteur return to russia in the early nineties as he'd already become entirely disenchanted with the american film industry. who were stronger would you. 'd a lot. more would i started.

hollywood was. all in portraying the soviet union in a positive light during world war 2 that they need us president harry truman began to quickly regret it after the surrender. of the quintile is still a. little bit didn't. know should it be able to let the city of new presley shouldn't she world in a 1000000 users you. need to realize that is the closest. to the refuse the british did in those little. in the 19th thirties the communist party in the united states was pretty strong. and i say that is a good thing they were critical in fighting early fighters for civil rights in the united states hollywood has attracted all these creative artists writers

directors producers actors and actresses and intellectuals were the ones who were most attracted to the communist ideal and they wanted to see the soviet union is representing something better than the sword and materialism of american capitalism so in 947 the house un-american activities committee bore down on hollywood it was this committee that introduced this so-called how the would blacklist which included people should be excluded from working in the us film industry due to their alleged political convictions. the u.s. government had to affirmatively go after leftists in hollywood and destroy their careers and make them testify in congress put people in jail drive people in don employment sometimes into suicide so need. to get hollywood back on

board on the anti soviet trying. among those given testimony to the house un-american activities committee or to put it simply ratting out their colleagues was an actor named ronald reagan the future u.s. president was already actively participating in civic life even in those days. the north star a film about soviet collective farmers that was hailed by the academy just a couple of years earlier was now deemed anime propaganda and it screenplay writer lillian hellman was accused of being a communist sympathizer and damning label in those years suddenly all of those. film the propaganda films that were made during world war 2 well brought into question and hollywood got scared. the north star was eventually released under the name armored attack in the new version the title comrade was removed and narration comparing the nazis to the soviet soldiers who suppressed the hungaroring uprising

in 1956 was at it i. how what is considered to be an independent private sector of economy a group of private companies and yet it seems like the government finds ways to influence the movie make an industry and i just can wrap my head around how they actually pulled this off by these publicity trials as show trials stalin understood how to do that hitler understood how to do that well the united states under truman and eisenhower also understood added to that. untrained and intimidating hollywood begins to promote an entirely different image of the soviet union let's be honest have we anything like it in question you know can you imagine what the brits would be a little like that. what a film that pokes fun at the behavior of soviet paragraphs abroad was shot in 1939

but it turned out to be most useful with the onset of the cold war. oh my god. what an image the comedian made it actually just scares a lot more so that all the little garbled. somebody really really boasts of their own little service what was good totally. ok. the americans actually distributed and promoted and post-war europe especially in italy where the communist party's position was strong there was never stated in the film that communism and the u.s.s.r. back it went without saying nearly 6 and i was not going to say let's go to the most. serious case broke american realistic many people say real 2 thirds as well

as you don't need you to admit it and they were civil but used to every school. it was just going to. we have the high ideals but have the clout not. the hollywood began producing a spate of. anti communist films during this time oh it's the same propaganda images nobody ever is idealistic about anything that women were ugly or they were beautiful if they were beautiful they were nymphomaniacs now my students find them laughable but or the time they were taken seriously movies like i was a communist for the f.b.i. i married a communist i read moscow how guilty of treason the red menace this was a terrible time in america in 1954 the united states and great britain released an

animated film called animal farm which is based on a novel of the same name by george orwell its production was sponsored by the cia which was very interested in the anti soviet subtext of the story which is about a farm and the big power there i manage i am. actually am how many. traders among us. but by the sixty's and seventy's relations between the us and the us ceasar had already reached the point of detachment and this was immediately reflected in the hollywood pictures the soviet union was certainly not presented as a friend of the united states but he wasn't presented as an enemy it was more like the united states than the soviet union could cooperate against the bad guy look at the g. bomb he said laughing and laughing although stronger would always be a russian agent who would be able to bond and the cia people will be

wary of a new vision of him but they will always cooperate and again the real enemy. the relations between the countries began to deteriorate again in the eighty's after ronald reagan who had been actively anti communist even when he was a hollywood actor became president of the. united states even legendary movie boxer rocky billboard played by sylvester stallone entered the fray by taking on the daunting doped up soviet fighter ivan drago and they. follow the capital among those that are both it's seen that on the test for things you have some problem with a boy who sort of mr mason with a life on the 2nd big will say this to say this because there's been no people should. not assume you don't come here. from your spirit. you put your parents in the boardroom why do they follow the policies of the state

department the pentagon well they get a lot of money from the state department and the pentagon the best they found the pentagon to have a lot of say in in works of hollywood ya. somewhere drew scrooge i'm sure. i mean years ago are you. going for growing with your desired should you. should direction. you know. meet the parents with ben stiller funny movie love it right. so you find out that deniro was a cia operative at one point ben stiller goes into his layer in the basement and he sees photos of deniro with clinton with what looks like maybe

a bent a lot in type figure originally stiller found a cia. on deniro suggests the cia itself reviewed the script and said then and then. you're not going to bring up cia torture do they watch every single movie that is about to be produced in our wood in any film that has any military hardware in it an obvious example top gun you got it asked for permission you don't just walk on to the air force base and start flying jets around. so if you get their permission. they get the right. to look at what you're saying about. the officer for information which was responsible for propaganda during world war 2 was officially

closed in 1945 but the relationship that developed between al the wood and the us government in those years seems to have grown only stronger since stand at different times american rulers have needed different myths including some the directly contradicted earlier ones as in the case are fresh 'd but no matter how difficult the order this factory has always do to flip delivered. hollywood had always been afraid of government says. so what they did was that they censored themselves. even the fiction. of the daily basis. you know what is the worst they believe it. was not a conspiracy theorist it wasn't created for propaganda purposes but hollywood certainly is now a real propaganda force in the world probably the greatest propaganda force that's ever existed.

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