PRICE OF PEACE AND FREEDOM 1970s COLD WAR FILM SOVIET THREAT 25564

Produced during the 1970s, the Price of Peace and Freedom is a Cold War film that attempts to show the Soviet Threat to the United States and its Allies. This is an Armed Forces Information Film produced by the Office of Information for the Armed Forces Department of Defense in affiliation with the AFLCIO. The film states the opinions of the American Security Council Education Foundation concerning the military threat posed by the Warsaw Pact countries to the United States and its allies. It features Alexander Solzhenitsyn discussing the USSR s ideology and its threat to the West, and extensive footage of Warsaw Pact war games. Bracketed at either end by President John F. Kennedy s speech to the nation on the Cuban Missile crisis, the film includes several excerpts from two speeches. One speaker is Leonid Brezhnev at a Soviet Communist Party meeting where reminds members of their goal to overwhelm the West. The other speaker is Alexandr Solzhenitsyn, identified as a Soviet writer and dissident, who d been e