Happily surprised

I started watching the series expecting this to be a one part conspiracy, one part leftie bias. Firstly, from as far as I know and from what I've gathered afterwards, it seems the facts check out, and to be honest, it just didn't seem awfully biased to me (even though no one can claim it isn't, but I hardly thought the point was to be unbiased.)

Pretty much the only thing I knew about Oliver Stone was the JFK conpsiracy movie. Most conspiracies usually have reasonable backgrounds (It would, for example, make sense for the US to fake the moon landings, so they could proclaim to have won the space race), but at best, questionable facts. JFK happens to be one of those where you can't really tell.

Either way, getting back on track. The movie is all about the way US have been behaving since World War 2, for better or for worse. I can bet a lot of people will call him Sovjet -friendly, or simply communist. I never felt that was a part of the film. Sure, he does talk about the good parts of Sovjet, and how they actually reached out to the US. But he never once backs down to also mention that they did horrible things, and that the US had at the very least, authencity to actually not cooperate with them.

Every documentary should be viewed with a questionable eye, so should this. But I just gotta say that this one will appear to be more biased than it actually is. The point is not to look at Sovjet and why their rulers were bad, but it's a look on the US rulers, and why they're bad, have had questionable morals, made wrong choices and etc. But also celebrating parts of American history.

I'm probably jabbering on, if you disagree I'm totally fine with that. And let me clarify, I am not left on the political scale (well, maybe by US standards. Anything can be left there), but I enjoyed it. While the facts themselves were no surprise, I liked the refreshing take on them.