https://archive.org/details/Challeng1961

The Challenge of Ideas

This is a 26 minute or so long Cold War propaganda video produced to explain the ideological competition between the USSR and free nations, the importance for our service members to understand the nature of this competition, and the imperative to represent our values overseas. The first 15 or so minutes is overly propagandistic and will come across as simple, but still entertaining from a historical aspect of how our nation viewed itself. You have to love the fact that most of the commentators are smoking a cigarette while they speak to the audience, clearly a different era.

Somewhere around the 12:30-minute mark the discussion starts about the character of the Cold War, and discusses how the USSR seeks world conquest via actions short of war via actions that are economic, political, and economic. Sound familiar?

On the webpage there are a number of comments below the video, of course those on the left jumped in criticizing the film for both legitimate and illegitimate reasons, but I was partial to the comment that the video didn't go far enough, because there was no discussion on the massive atrocities committed by Stalin and Mao who both murdered millions of their own countrymen. We are not without sin, but we don't come close to the evil the communist regimes represented.

If this video upsets you, and you need to clear your mind, then a 30sec musical excerpt, also from this resource site might help you forget everything for a brief moment in time.

https://archive.org/details/supersta...mer_breeze.mp3