{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "The Day After (1983), the high-rated made-for-tv movie about nuclear annihilation, was dismissed by reactionaries as nothing but...", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/678371869825597440/", "html": "<img src=\"/media/70e3a2eb554b0d5c0b43a0b47de0d23581e9ede7_7927e407d170.png\" />\n<img src=\"/media/3722c9f1cc21d3b51b333f46ff199431db4eee73_8f99abc1e9db.png\" />\n<img src=\"/media/5ead354828ebc79fec09dad7fcd67ad99619ffa8_e4b6048a268f.png\" />\n<img src=\"/media/a3de0357d75452a919d43505d4e7134853b056bc_023a0357356a.png\" />\n<img src=\"/media/8185b10f0c60168d8fe9303b6152000a321ed4bf_aacc4ef384f5.png\" />\n<img src=\"/media/e924f709154d2f5d4784b1bc988e7288040a31e1_f5262354eacb.png\" />\n<img src=\"/media/3877d2c12b97d9294a7977188d3e78502a013bed_41b7ba601e02.png\" />\n<img src=\"/media/d42ee1b36ae56c22d841ba14b3f2b0ecd1b5fc81_73381c2e14ee.png\" />\n<img src=\"/media/0072dd9a893fefeacf14d467d7b1fc538a8093a0_b64362587e9f.png\" />\n<img src=\"/media/148584cd2b6c617859f56dcbaa0e890b281421cc_4b9c1cae6440.png\" />\n<p><a href=\"https://oldshowbiz.tumblr.com/post/672558653528834048/the-day-after-1983-the-high-rated-made-for-tv\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">oldshowbiz</a>:</p>\n\n<blockquote><p>The Day After (1983), the high-rated made-for-tv movie about nuclear annihilation, was dismissed by reactionaries as nothing but communist propaganda<br/></p></blockquote>\n\n\n<p>It&rsquo;s worth noting that the early &lsquo;80s were time of the &ldquo;Nuclear Freeze&rdquo; movement, a &ldquo;hey, why don&rsquo;t we just stop having nukes?&rdquo; thing that was widely considered to be propped up as a Soviet op in a situation where a nuclearized Europe offered no obvious hope of conquest, and so &ldquo;nuclear weapons are just <i>horrible</i>&rdquo; <b>was</b>, coherently, considered a Soviet-benefiting message to inject into the culture at that point</p>", "thumbnail_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/media/70e3a2eb554b0d5c0b43a0b47de0d23581e9ede7_7927e407d170.png", "thumbnail_width": 860, "thumbnail_height": 1394}