How ‘Dallas’ Won the Cold War
1st May 2008
Trust your precious bodily fluids to Victoria Principal. You know you want to.
Joseph Stalin is said to have screened the 1940 movie “The Grapes of Wrath” in the Soviet Union to showcase the depredations of life under capitalism. Russian audiences watched the final scenes of the Okies’ westward trek aboard overladen, broken-down jalopies — and marveled that in the United States, even poor people had cars.