Gorbachev | Shutting Down the Cold War | 2

What does a country sing about when it can't agree on its own founding? Why has Hollywood, which will film literally anything, never made a great movie about 1776? And when both the Black Lives Matter marchers and the January 6th rioters claim to be the true heirs of the Declarat ...  Show more

Why did African Americans spend a century celebrating the Fifth of July instead of the Fourth? Why did a sitting US president personally try to end a journalist's career over one newspaper series? And two hundred and fifty years on, why can't America agree on what its founding do ...  Show more

In the early 1970s, while trying to wind down the war in Vietnam, President Richard Nixon made overtures to Moscow and Beijing that would usher in a new era of the Cold War: Detente. But the thaw in relations didn’t last long - the Iran Hostage Crisis and Soviet invasion of Afgha ...  Show more

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Day 191.Today, we discuss the latest updates from the war zone, the ongoing developments at the ZNPP and analyse what Putin’s snub of Gorbachev tells us about him and modern Russia. Contributors:David Knowles (Host). Follow David on Twitter @djknowles22.Francis Dearnley (Assistan ...  Show more

President Reagan knew a detent with the Soviet Union wouldn’t win the Cold War. If we take off the gloves and force Soviet communism to compete with American democracy, he thought, the U.S. will prevail. In a phrase: “We win, they lose.” He was right. The U.S. won. The Soviet Uni ...  Show more