Lucy Walker Quotes
I remember when the Berlin Wall fell and suddenly intractable problems get solved.
Walker, Lucy. Interview by Steve Appleford. "Lucy Walker on Countdown to Zero." Los Angeles Times, 25 Jul. 2010.
This was a very prescient prediction. Russia and China as well as lesser communist states have followed his prediction.
This editorial marked what most people agreed was the end of the Cold War.
At the time, there were different financial interests between the West and the Eastern States of the U. S. Some thought that the United States would not long be united. The “West” however was then Kentucky, West Virginia and the states mostly West of the Appalachian Mountains,
In 1992 Russia was in terrible economic shape after the fall of the Soviet Union. Keeping up with the United States military expenditures had bankrupted the Russians. The United States which had strategically increased its defense spending to break the Russian economy if they tried to keep up. However, the U. S. expenditures had forced America into a deficit spending period which produced a national deficit greater than all the previous cumulative deficits in our history. So the American economy was not in great shape either. Meanwhile, Japan, whose constitution (imposed by America after WWII) forbade having a military and funding a military. The result was the Japanese economy was growing at a much more rapid rate, and did not have the unbalanced budget of the United States and Russia. Hence, Tsongas’ observation.
Truman had to deal with Stalin for many years and over time he became more and more soured on the Russians. See {626411} for his view 22 years later,
Lucy Walker is an English film director. She has directed the documentaries Devil's Playground (2002), Blindsight (2006), Waste Land (2010), Countdown to Zero (2010), and The Crash Reel (2013). She has also directed the short films The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom (2011) and The Lion's Mouth Opens (2014).
