Blog 2

While in class today, we talked about the Cold War, Stalin and general myths that we have conceived of have heard of over the years and where we got our ideas. After thinking about it, the Cold War was not a huge topic while I was in high school. We mainly focused on the world wars and the Allies and Axis’s. From what little we talked, the impression on the Cold War that I got was that we were the good guys and Stalin and the Soviets were evil. I remember that during the week we touched on the Cold War, we played the board game Risk, to emphasize how the Soviets were trying to take over the world. The funny thing was, during this week, we were not really taught anything. We just played the game over the week long period. Also, the media has influenced me in a few ways. The movie Miracle, made the Soviets seem evil and the USA the heroes of the story. With so many things influencing a USA=good vs Soviets=bad sort of attitude, it is hard not to develop that myth for yourself.