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Another educational illustration, on FX’s The Americans, of the alliance of interests between Soviet communists and the Left in the West during the 1980s, when both worked to undermine the Reagan administration’s defense policies.
(The series, set in the early 1980s, revolves around “Philip and Elizabeth Jennings,” undercover KGB agents living as an ordinary American husband and wife in suburban, Washington, DC. A new episode debuts tonight.)
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On the May 7 episode, “Stealth,” set in May of 1982, “Paige,” unaware her parents are communists, delivers a plea for very un-Soviet-like individuality:
“I understand you have control over me -- what I do, where I go, and who I see until I’m 18, but who I am and what I think and feel and believe is mine and me. There’s a protest at an Air Force base in Pennsylvania this weekend, and they’re having them all around the country at bases that fly bombers with nuclear weapons. A group from church is going. I want to go, too. We’d be leaving tomorrow after school, and it’s chaperoned, and-”
“Elizabeth” jumps in: “Okay. I think it’s a worthwhile cause and sounds like a good idea.”