PBS WWII Behind Closed Doors, Stalin, the Nazis and the West
I saw the first one early Monday morning I'm pissed that I have to wait till next week to see the third and final part.
Stalin was a vicious, ruthless bastard, he switched sides after the Nazis betrayed him and then got pretty damn close to taking over Moscow, but I certainly don't remember learning in US history how Churchill and Roosevelt strung him along and promised to help him with a 2nd front in Europe. Two years later they did. 27 million Russians died during WWII, 16 million of them civilians.
Now I'm watching this
POWER TRIP
by Paul Devlin
Amid pervasive blackouts and corruption, an American energy company purchases a formerly state-run electricity company in the former Soviet Republic of Georgia. Cultures clash, tempers flare and managers and locals tussle as a struggling nation attempts to build itself from beneath the rubble of Soviet collapse.
The film credits said it was made in 2004. When I first started becoming a news junkie I remember it registering to me that there were a lot of murders in Tblisi, the largest city in Georgia, at one time part of the Soviet Union. The iron fisted rulers of the Soviet era used force and fear to make the people submit to their will. The corruption depicted in the film was atrocious. No wonder the company was sold to a Russian company. A terrorized people don't change overnight, especially if anybody with an independent streak and honesty flees or disappears somehow. The country sits between Asia and Europe and people have been figthing over control of the area between the Black and Caspian Seas for hundreds, probably thousands of years.
Most recently because it's part of Piplineistan
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