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Title: Apparently, the victors DON'T write history.
Review: This book, of course, is a companion to the 24-part series on CNN. While it is comprehensive, well-photographed, and well-edited, Ted Turner's Team just can't help taking the revisionist's view that the Cold War was fought by morally equivalent superpowers. The US certainly didn't wear a white hat during the Cold War, but putting us on the same moral level as a reactive, authoritarian regime that crushed all dissent, inside and outside the country, is pure folly. A good example is the coverage of Stalin's Gulag and the McCarthy era. McCarthyism was truly a dark spell in US history which led to careers and reputations being ruined. However, I don't remember millions of suspected subversives/dissidents being worked/starved to death in Alaska. Better dead than Ted!!!
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