i catch this short film on the turner classic network on wednesday and september 20 and 2006 from 7 represent30 8 represent00 p. m. come out in 1952 and i be figure out that it would be far from positive about the soviet union or it policy . this turn out to be quite true and but it attack be a fair one . the opportunism of the soviet union in the 1920s and 1930s and 1940s into the 1950s be an open historical record . each switch of policy ( mirror in the communist party of the united state and europe and asia as well ) be call a round ( like in a boxing match . round four be pro western and a stalin try ( supposedly ) to link up with the united state and england and and france against nazi aggression . round five be the soviet about face in their aligning with the nazi in the non aggression pact of 1939. round six be when russia be attack by germany and reach out to britain and america again . round seven be when the second world war end and and russia become a threat to western democracy . it turn out that of the first 48 veto of the security council of the u. n. from 1945 to 1953 and 47 be from the soviet union . no doubt someone can make a case that british and french ( and to a less extent and american ) diplomatic blundering make stalin and molotov swallow their bile and sign that infamous 1939 non aggression pact with hitler and von ribbentrop . but the argument about safety and buying time to rearm and while plausible to an extent and do not explain the soviet union willingness to grab the eastern portion of neighbor poland while germany grab the western portion and nor use this to eventually attack the baltic state of latvia and lithuania and and esthonia and and finland . what be curious about this be the even handedness of the attack on enemy of democracy . the narration warn about believe snake oil salesman of totalitarian idea and of all stripe ( fascist and nazi and communist ) . but this even go against people spread hate towards people who be suspect ( intellectual and or foreign born type ) . this be make in 1952 and the height of the mccarthy period and yet it make a case that might almost be aim at the senator himself . it never hint at the senator and mind you and but it be an odd point of view in an age of the hollywood blacklist . interestingly enough two of the narrator be robert taylor and george murphy and both conservative type represent murphy eventually become a republican u. s. senator in the 1960s and and taylor a friendly witness against communist influence in the movie industry ( taylor have be in a controversial film and the north star and which paint soviet union life too positively ) . but neither say anything that one can actually find really far right in political position . with narrative also by walter pigeon ( interestingly he deal with american foreign policy under general george marshall ( sort of anathema to mccarthyites in 1952 ) and quite favorably ) and barry sullivan and dore schare and howard keel and and james whitmore . i suspect that schare may have be behind the project and but i really do not know . it be actually quite well worth watch .