Rather than questioning the accuracy of setting, dialogue, or action, audiences gave the film makers freedom to use their imagination. ... The Viet Cong appear as a mass of barbarians running through the dark, trying to overrun the fort, who get exterminated by electrified fences. ... After being taken prisoners, the three friends are forced to play in a Russian roulette sequence where the captors bet on the outcome. ... This gut-wrenching scene of American soldiers fighting for their lives through the perverted ideals of the savages illustrates the removal of the historical context of the war...

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Exiled to Siberia, he would soon escape, setting a pattern for the next ten years: from 1902 to 1913 he would be arrested and exiled six times, escaping almost every time. (Siberian exile, in Tsarist Russia, was notoriously easy to escape from.) ... At this point, Stalin began his rise to dominance by destroying his rival Trotsky, expelling him from the party in 1927 and exiling him from the Soviet Union in 1929. Meanwhile, he brilliantly played the Politburo's factions off one another, first allying with Nikolai Bukharin and his "Rightists" to destroy the "Leftists," and then, when his ...

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