Behind the Curtain
Sailer, Steve, The American Conservative
FILM
[The Lives of Others]
Behind the Curtain
WHEN THE SOVIET SUBMARINE film "The Hunt for Red October" appeared in 1990, a magazine headline described it with a sigh of relief as "The Last Cold War Movie." And that proved largely prophetic. While the movie industry continues to mine the Third Reich's dozen years, the much longer era of Communist tyranny in Eastern Europe has seemingly disappeared down the media memory hole.
In Germany, "It's forbidden by law to deny the crimes of the Nazis," observes historian Hubertus Knabe, "But it's almost forbidden by custom since reunification to really discuss the crimes of the regime that turned East Germany into a …
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Publication information:
Article title: Behind the Curtain.
Contributors: Sailer, Steve - Author.
Magazine title: The American Conservative.
Volume: 6.
Issue: 5
Publication date: March 12, 2007.
Page number: 26.
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