Marshall Plan: Starting of the Cold War (1947-1952) - Turner Production (1998)

"Marshall Plan 1947-1952" (Cold War, Episode #3), Turner Original Productions (Time Warner), 1998
About the "Cold War" 24-episode series:
If anything defined the 20th century as the age of anxiety, it's the cold war with its ultimate no-win nuclear endgame. While conflicts in Korea and Vietnam dragged on, providing the traditional images of modern warfare, some of the conflict's most dangerous battles were invisible--tactical, intellectual, and fought primarily in the minds and war rooms of U.S. and Soviet leaders: Kennedy, Krushchev, Castro, Kissinger, Gorbachev, and Reagan. This 24-episode series, narrated by Kenneth Branagh, is a comprehensive history that examines the key events of the arc of the Soviet Union, from its birth to its fall, and provides a thorough analysis of what was going on behind closed doors. Informed by the stories of 500 eyewitnesses--from citizens and soldiers to historians and statesmen--and strengthened by painstaking reconstruction of archival historical film footage, "Cold War" is a heroic undertaking and a sweeping chronicle of the world's most fragile decades.
Comrades 1917-1945/ Iron curtain1945-1947 / Marshall Plan 1947-1952/ Berlin 1948-1949 /Korea 1949-1953 / Reds 1947-1953 / After Stalin 1953-1956 / Sputnik 1949-1961 / The Wall 1958-1963/ Cuba 1959-1962 /Mad 1960-1972/ Vietnam 1954-1968/Make Love Not War the 60's/Red Spring the 60's/China 1949-1972/ Detente 1969-1975/The Wall Comes Down 1989/ Spies 1944-1994/ Star Wars 1980-1988/ Soldiers of God 1075-1988/ Freeze 1977-1981/ Good guys, Bad Guys 1967-1978/ Backyard 1954-1990 Conclusions.

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[ThaMahstah]

@dave19941000 Finally, I dispute your poverty figures. Their poverty rates are not "higher than ever." Many spiked after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, as would be expected with the collapse of one of the two greatest states to ever exist, but far from being "higher than ever," they have improved steadily. Russia itself spiked at around 40% in the immediate aftermath, but is at 13% today.

[ThaMahstah]

@dave19941000 Where it is has gotten worse can hardly be put down as being because they adopted capitalist practices.

If you mean to say that unrestricted capitalism is bad, there are few who would disagree. It is an impossible system.

However, to say, "Oh, because it's not pure capitalism, it must be socialism," is flawed. Capitalist practices have brought an improvement in well-being to millions who previously lived in socialist and planned-economy systems.

[ThaMahstah]

@dave19941000 Not true. Many of the countries formerly in the Soviet bloc have flourished. Poland chief among them. The Baltics as well. China, in adopting capitalist practices, has exploded in potential.

[dave19941000]

@ThaMahstah (Part 2) But now that its rival Communism is dead, there is no reason for it to be better, it can be as ugly as it wants. When you look at the Soviet Block, youll see that things got worst after the fall of Communism, and that there is a reason why the Cold War is called by many the good old days, because Capitalism without Socialism is as bad and at times worst then Communism (it is in the former communist countries, who all have between 40-50% poverty, higher then ever)

[dave19941000]

@ThaMahstah (Part 1) The western version of Capitalism had won, but it after the Cold War every former communist country addopted Capitalism with a free market that made the Western version look like socialism. Russia is more Capitalist then the US is now, but Capitalism has failed them (50% poverty) because now Capitalism does not need to be good. It won the Cold War because it took Socialist policies into itself to make itself better then Communism.

[ThaMahstah]

@dave19941000 The Cold War resulted in the triumph of capitalism and free markets over the planned economies of socialism and communism. The communists had to wall their own people in to prevent them from fleeing to the west. The minute the Berlin went up, it was over, philosophically speaking. The West had won.

[dave19941000]

When Communism and Capitalism face each other, the only way for Capitalism to look better is to adopt Socialism, but when Capitalism has no rivalries, it needs not change it's form, and it reveals itself as the worst system.