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Control Commission for Germany. The Berlin air lift began on 24 June 1948. As the free world and the eastern-bloc countries stockpiled arms and suspiciously faced each other, the Rosenbergs were executed for spying for the Reds, the Korean War broke out, Alger Hiss was found guilty of perjury in concealing his Communist Party membership, the atom spy Klaus Fuchs was exposed, Senator Joseph McCarthy
around some moderate centre-​ground with Stone.9 His politics throughout have been rooted in the foundational myths about America. He is a supporter of still the greatest capitalist nation on earth, but not an unbridled advocate of capitalism, much less the continued expansion of corporate power that the particular brand of American capitalism has wrought. (As mentioned previously, there is something C on c l u sio n Figure 10  Protest against US military installation, Jeju Island, South Korea, March 2013 239 Th e ci nem a of Ol iver  S to ne 240 distinctly
.2 million was to cover all ten chapters. The original structure for the series started with a chapter on Hiroshima, followed by one on Luce and Wallace, after which the story of the Cold War and its aftermath would be traced.77 A later revision began with the Second World War, followed by a chapter specifically on the atom bomb, whereupon the narrative would step back in the following two chapters to consider events at the turn of the century through to the Great Depression and the New Deal, before picking up the post-​war story from Korea to Afghanistan, with the final
preservationist concerns. To give just one example, the Universal horror classics Frankenstein (1931) and The Mummy (1932) were revived at the Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival, South Korea, in 2001, within the context of a desire to explore knowledge around this particular genre. 18 To be sure, there was a ‘reason’, a justification, for such revivals – the appearance of
of it. I went to a small privately funded museum in Nagasaki which is the only one that really covers this issue. It’s not in the school books. We hear about the ‘comfort women’ now! These stories only started appearing fifty years after the war ended. The Japanese had sex stations in Burma, Indonesia, Saigon –​it wasn’t just Korean women. The crimes in China were huge. We made the point that after the war, Germany made a conscious effort to deal with the legacy of Nazism. The Japanese never dealt with their past. So the message in Japan was complicated: to talk
the camera, This jeep is a museum piece, a relic of war. Normandy, Anzio, Guadalcanal, Korea, Vietnam. I hope we will never have to build another jeep for war. This film Platoon is a memorial not to war but to all the men and women who fought in a time and in a place nobody really understood , who
ubiquitous features of everyday life, sound like this. Belarus and North Korea still have such systems in place. Here a defense of friendship is needed, as a minimal condition for a human life. Here an appreciation for the micro-foundations, as our political science friends like to say, of decent daily interaction with our fellow citizens may be required. Indeed, in any modern