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Posted inFilm Reviews

The Humans Behind the Rhetoric: ‘Red Army’ Tells the Tale of Russia’s 1980 Olympic Hockey Team

The Soviet Union’s hockey players were portrayed by the media as villains who needed to be vanquished in 1980, the final year of Jimmy Carter’s presidency. America was feeling a little tired and put upon; the Cold War was in full swing; and somebody needed to get their ass kicked. Who better than those nasty […]

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