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'Sputnik Mania' Takes a Hot Look at the Cold War

By Dennis Harvey
San Francisco Bay Guardian | August 13, 2008
Two decades ago, when communism in most territories ended with a whimper, the Cold War era officially died with it. But David Hoffman's documentary Sputnik Mania turns the Way Back Machine to that long moment when it was overwhelmingly, virulently alive.
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