Where you from bluerisk?
Are you German? You'd have a good reason to see the Russians in that light if you were I suppose.

Was she right about the effect of a nucear war: absolutely yes.
Was she right that this situation could be averted: absolutely no
We are talking about Russians.
Ich bin kein ausgeklügelt Buch, ich bin ein Mensch mit seinem Widerspruch.
Conrad Ferdinand Meyer

Even today general population don't like truth, they will rather trust corporation funded news that comfort them, than any individual speaking the truth.

The irony of this post is palpable.

"Other people have said it but the sad truth is that anyone who talks sense and tells it like it is rather than sugar-coating everything in patriotic fervour generally tends to be written off as a lefty-Marxist type who wants us all to eat grass, which is rubbish but it's been ingrained in so many people it's hard to overcome."
Yes. Nuclear war is less of a worry nowadays, but a parallel can be made with those who are concerned about climate change. The Heartland Institute, a leading climate change denial organization funded by Exxon, has hosted conferences where climate science is dimissed as a "hoax" or a "communist conspiracy". Scientists who call for a reduction in CO2 emissions are villified in the Right-wing press as "puppets of totalitarianism". One Right-wing commentator even compared climate science to "Lysenkoism":
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/planet-oz/2013/may/02/how-clima te-scientists-being-framed

I think it was a combination of ignorance, social-bias and straight-up burying heads in sand.
Social awareness wasn't as keen back then as it is now and so generally you accepted the status quo unless you were prepared to scratch the surface and do some reading. Sadly that wasn't really encouraged back then, either. When some people were confronted with someone with radically different opinions and ideas to their own, they could only ignore it or get angry.
Other people have said it but the sad truth is that anyone who talks sense and tells it like it is rather than sugar-coating everything in patriotic fervour generally tends to be written off as a lefty-Marxist type who wants us all to eat grass, which is rubbish but it's been ingrained in so many people it's hard to overcome.
The worst part is that they had her arrested as a "subversive", which is as sad as it is annoying.

People often will refuse to listen to what they don't want to hear, and try to drown it out/shut it up.

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Some still do in 21st Century America
Who can take you higher than a twin peak mountain
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It just staggers me to think about
just how stupid humans are.
You'd think the last thing we'd
want is to end up wiping each
other out, wouldn't you?
So this is how liberty dies-with thunderous applause?

It's a potent combination of emotions running high mostly due to fear of being suddenly unemployed by the Thatcher policies, and fear that you'd end up toasted in a nuclear fire storm (or worse).

But how was that the peacespeaker woman's fault? It was obviously Maggie Thatcher that shut down all the industry. The peacespeaker would almost certainly have hated Maggie Thatcher as much as the angry man and the rest of the croud; if not, much more.

If you watch the scene again the woman mentions ''indusrty'' and its then that a man in the crowd shouts ''What industry!? Sheffield hasnt got any industry anymore'' ANYONE from Sheffield at that time in the 80's will know that the Thatcher government more or less closed MUCH of the industrial sections of the UK down, the mines.. Steel Mills ect Dark time for us northern folk.
Thats why the crowd turns hostile.
"Too bad she wont live But then again who does?"

I'd say that intellectuals worldwide are generally liberal. Being conservative is specific to whatever country you're in (e.g. being conservative in India is very different from being conservative in Ireland). Academia has long involved working across boundaries for a common cause, so it's not a conducive atmosphere for those who stick to their own culture and believe that it's always best.
Only a small minority are Marxist though.

In my country there major part of our teachers were left-wing (communist or Marxist, or similar, extreme feminist, pro-Palestinian, anti globalism, environmental extremists and so on and so forth ).
Heck, even today, they mostly vote on the left-most parties.
I guess the Soviet union succeeded in some areas indeed.

we found out about so much communist agitation from defectors soon after the wall came down, the STASI had thousands of people in the UK propagandizing for them. One such defector brought microfiche files of 280,000 operatives in the west.
trashing books is like the Special Olympics even if you win & burn them all you are still a retard.

lol.
that seems more like what's happening right here in the US except just replace communism with fascism or "corporatism"

17. Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers' associations. Put the party line in textbooks.
18. Gain control of all student newspapers.
19. Use student riots to foment public protests against programs or organizations which are under Communist attack.
    http://www.rense.com/general32/americ.htm

LOL. where you get that from? an old nazi propaganda manual?

No, that was how the early 80's was.
Communist antagonists and disinformation was both feared and real back then.
It's like today, if someone is against the bombing of Syria.
"What? Are you an ISIS sympytiser?"
Especially if you happen to be Muslim I guess..

And you're a beep idiot.

You're beep mental.

Part of the commie's job is to sew dissension and strife among the populace, and to instigate strikes and riots by reinforcing already healed doubts and beliefs about the weakness of one's own government. This will weaken moral, cause confusion, tie-up law enforcement and government services, all of which will weaken the home-front in general. It is to push the government into a position of weakness and make them ripe for capitulation, or at a minimum, blunt the sword of defiance to the enemy's goals and forces.
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