PLIR 3500 Lecture 6: lecture 6
16 Feb 2017
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Dr. strangelove or how i learned to stop worrying and love the bomb. Ridiculous aspects: same actor plays dr. strangelove, mandrake, and president muffly, character names: muffly, general jack d ripper, strangelove, general shmuck, Major kong, buck turdgenson, premier kissoff: sexual undertones: airplanes being fueled while romantic music plays, end of movie has been described as climactic with all of the explosions. Plan r: general can still launch nuclear missiles if president and other high rankers are dead. Doomsday machine: serves as deterrent for attack but no one knew it existed. Reflects fear that america will become authoritarian in the attempt to persevere freedom. Asia more prominent: second asian land war for us, prc potential ally. Cuban revolution brings communism close to us. Stalin to khrushchev in soviet union: 1953: stalin dies, khrushchev takes power, stalin was 74, khrushchev is 59, stalin had ruled since 1922, de-stalinization follows.
