Oh my…what timing for Today
Worth a watch. It’s only 30 minutes long.
Sometimes you have to SHOW PEOPLE….
This is a 1951 take on what living under Communism would be like in a small town in US. It is uncanny as to how they take away your free speech rights just like now…censoring.
Face to Face with Communism (1951) was an American Cold War propaganda film. It dramatised the effects on a small town of an imagined invasion of the United States by the Soviet Union. Its running time was 26 minutes.
The Fort Devens Collection
Propaganda, “the methodical propagation of a particular doctrine,” was an essential tool in America’s arsenal during the cold war (1946-1991), a period of history bracketed by two watershed events, the end of World War II and the destruction of the Berlin Wall. During these four decades propaganda played as much of a role in the United States’ struggle with the Soviet Union as did the billions of dollars spent on weaponry. The Fort Devens Collection came to the HFA from the Fort Devens Historical Museum in Groton, MA, located on the site of the former U.S. Army base. Originally called Camp Stevens, the base was built in 1917 for the demands of World War I and named for General Charles L. Devens (Harvard Law 1840). It was designated at the onset of World War II as a reception center and training camp for all men drafted in New England who would serve in the U.S. Army. The nearly seven square mile camp comprised more than 1200 wooden buildings and an airfield, and was home to the 1st, the 45th, and the 32nd divisions during World War II and the 7th Infantry during the Vietnam conflict. It also housed a prisoner of war camp for German and Italian prisoners from 1944 to 1946. After WWII, Harvard had so many veterans attending Harvard under the G.I. bill that barracks at Fort Devens were used as temporary housing for Harvard students in the years immediately following the war.
http://hcl.harvard.edu/hfa/collection…
https://youtu.be/CRt-ljCzVws