BigList
Login / Sign up
USA: danger from the right. Demoniac from Wisconsin (1971)

USA: danger from the right. Demoniac from Wisconsin (1971)

TV Movie Documentary
Release Date: 1971, June 1
Directors: Anatoliy Semyonov
Countries: Soviet Union
Production: Ekran, Ekran
Cast: Joseph McCarthy, Valentin Zorin

Overview:

Professor Valentin Zorin, political observer of the USSR State Television and Radio Broadcasting, talks about Joseph McCarthy, an American politician, a senator from Wisconsin, who held an extremely anti-communist position, who advocated an intensification of the Cold War with the USSR. The name of McCarthy is associated with a reactionary trend in the political life of the United States of the early 1950s, dubbed "McCarthyism" and consisted in the persecution of people only suspected of sympathizing with communism and not committing any crimes.

Keywords:

short film politics