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I greatly enjoyed the comments of Oleg Benyukh, a Soviet embassy official, regarding the mini-series ”Amerika.” He is upset because the series depicts Soviet rulers as cruel and callous as they attempt to put down a revolt in the now-occupied America.
I don`t know where our television writers and producers could have gotten such impressions of the Soviet leadership–unless they spoke with former residents of such nations as Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Poland and Afghanistan. ”Amerika” is, in Benyukh`s words, ”one of the most unfortunate products of the Cold War.” Be that as it may, it seems to me the most unfortunate thing is the Soviet willingness to supply such real-life examples to base a series upon.
