It’s the eighth chapter in a podcast miniseries that looks at the fall of the Iron Curtain and the popular culture of the Cold War. To start us off, I look at what happened in Eastern Europe from June 1991 to August 1991 with a special focus on the attempted coup on Moscow by Soviet hard liners, an event that led to the rise of Boris Yeltsin to the world stage. Then, I take a look at two of the most important movies of the mid-1980s, the movies that “won the Cold War”–1984’s Red Dawn and 1985’s Rocky IV.
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Here’s some more stuff for you …
The ABC News Soviet Coup coverage ..
Web resources I used in this episode …
“The August Coup” (Seventeen Moments in Soviet History)
TASS Coverage of the Attempted Soviet Coup from August 1991
Memory Archive testimonial about the Soviet Coup
Voices from an (Attempted) Soviet Coup
The trailer for Red Dawn …
The original version of the Red Dawn screenplay, Ten Soldiers
The trailer for Rocky IV …
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