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A2AThanks for asking, Anne Marie BarilaroHappy?!Nikita caused that Soviet people lost the last hope that the beautiful promise of the Revolution will come true sometime.Imagine POTUS who forwards peace of an official paper with something like Atenshan Mr/Mrs:Now imagine the State (and Party) Official # 1 doing the same in Russian — «АЗНАКОМИЦА».That's Khrushchov.This man with his erudition of a single-celled, endowed with instincts of a petty ferocious bloodthirsty predator has inflicted to USSR during his tenure the most terrible blow, from which it could not recover. Up to its bitter end.It is foolish to blame Marx& Lenin's theories on that. It's like blaming Space Shuttle Challenger disaster on fundamental physical theories or applied mathematics used.In very complex systems, even the slightest oversight can lead to disaster. It was a defective tiny O-ring that caused the Challenger's disaster.What ruined the Soviet Union was the sequence of illiterate rulers, cunning and unscrupulous enough to seize power, but by no means able to make good use of it for the benefit of the Soviet people’s wellbeing. The morbid irony is in that Khrushchev was an undeniable Trotskyist, but he did not know that.It's like Moliere's Jourdain who all his life spoke prose but never knew about it.

The simplest answer is often the best. In hindsight, he should have ignored his lust and testosterone-soaked desires and faced the facts - like a real man and monarch would have done: recognize his daughter Mary as heir. But Henry never really grew up and was a petty and brutal narcissist his entire life.True, a woman had never ruled England solo - the 12th century Mathilda, daughter of Henry I was called, “Lady of England” and never ruled more than parts of England which she shared with her cousin, Stephen - but women were not legally barred from the throne. As history would show, women could and did become queens regnant - Elizabeth, Mary and Anne of England, Isabella of Castille, Maria Theresa of Austria, Christina of Sweden, Catherine, Anne and Elizabeth in Russia. Only in France and Prussia did the Salic law prevail. And even in France, it was more “de jure” than “de facto” as Anne de Beaujeu (Charles VIII’s sister), Blanche of Castille (Louis IX’s mother), and Catherine De Medici illustrate - though technically regents, they exercised immense power.But Henry’s narrowness of vision warped his judgment: he saw lack of a son as a personal failure which people might attribute - God forbid - to a lack of virility and so he proceeded to wreak havoc in the name of male succession when a perfectly good - if at the time unorthodox - alternative beckoned.To secure his male heir, Henry divorced his first wife and ignored her to death, murdered his second wife, treated his daughters with a vicious capriciousness, destabilized the monarchy, liquidated the monasteries, and fanned the flames of religious intolerance that would sear England for 150 years.As it turned out, the heir he moved heaven and earth to acquire - Edward - didn’t see his 16th birthday, Mary ascended the throne to acclamations after a brief resistance by forces supporting another woman, Lady Jane Grey, and in fact - greatest irony of all - ALL of the potential heirs in Henry’s will - after Edward - were female: his two daughters and the descendants of his younger sister, Mary, all women (Frances Grey, Eleanor Grey, and Frances’ three daughters, Jane, Katherine, and Mary.)That Mary Tudor didn’t exactly cover herself with glory as queen is another matter. By the time of her succession she had been twisted into a bitter, lonely woman who took refuge in religious fanaticism mostly as a result of her neglect and manipulation by Henry. Maybe if he had simply acknowledged her as heir in 1525, hadn’t destroyed her mother, hadn’t begun a religious war in England, and hadn’t left Mary’s life hanging in the balance for decades, Mary would have been a more well-adjusted and responsible ruler instead of becoming one of the worst monarchs in British history, one best known for her infamous sobriquet: Bloody.

1930’s - 1970’s :L'Age d'Or (1930) : A surrealist tale of a man and a woman who are passionately in love with each other, but their attempts to consummate that passion are constantly thwarted by their families, the Church, and bourgeois society.À Nous la Liberté (1931) : Seeking better life, two convicts escape from prison.L'Atalante (1934) : Newly married couple Juliette and a ship captain Jean struggle through marriage as they travel on the L'atalante along with the captain's first mate Le père Jules and a cabin boy.¡Centinela, alerta! (1937) : A girl, left pregnant by a seducer, sets off to look for him when the child is born.The Rules of the Game (1939) : A bourgeois life in France at the onset of World War II, as the rich and their poor servants meet up at a French chateau.Angels of Sin (1943) : Rich young Anne-Marie thinks she has found her vocation when she joins a Dominican convent as a novice.Ossessione (1943) : Gino, a drifter, begins an affair with inn-owner Giovanna as they plan to get rid of her older husband.Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne (1945) : A society lady engineers a marriage between her lover and a cabaret dancer who is essentially a prostitute.It Rains on Our Love (1946) : A young love fights against the stupidity and boredom of society.Gran Casino (1947) : After the mysterious disappearance of an oil well owner, one of his workers, Gerardo (Jorge Negrete) assumes the business management.La Terra Trema (1948) : In rural Sicily, the fishermen live at the mercy of the greedy wholesalers. One family risks everything to buy their own boat and operate independently.Variety Lights (1950) : A beautiful but ambitious young woman joins a traveling troupe of third-rate vaudevillians and inadvertently causes jealousy and emotional crises.A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) : Disturbed Blanche DuBois moves in with her sister in New Orleans and is tormented by her brutish brother-in-law while her reality crumbles around her.The White Sheik (1952) : During a day in their honeymoon, a couple is separated by the city's lust and the desires it produces.The Lady Without Camelias (1953) : A new starlet is discovered and has ups and downs in Italian films.I Vitelloni (1953) : A character study of five young men at crucial turning points in their lives in a small town in Italy.La Strada (1954) : A care-free girl is sold to a traveling entertainer, consequently enduring physical and emotional pain along the way.East of Eden (1955) : A wilful young man contends against his brother for the attention of their religious father while reconnecting with his estranged mother and falling for his brother's girlfriend....And God Created Woman (1956) : In sunny St. Tropez, a young sexpot loves one brother but marries the other.Paths of Glory (1957) : After refusing to attack an enemy position, a general accuses the soldiers of cowardice and their commanding officer must defend them.Il Grido (1957) : A man wanders aimlessly, away from his town, away from the woman he loved, emotionally and socially inactive.Le Beau Serge (1958) : After long absence, a man returns to his hometown only to find his best friend has become an alcoholic.Brink of Life (1958) : Three women in a maternity ward reveal their lives and intimate thoughts to each other while in a maternity ward together, where they face the choice of keeping their babies or offering them for adoption.Pickpocket (1959) : Michel is released from jail after serving a sentence for thievery. His mother dies and he resorts to pickpocketing as a means of survival.The 400 Blows (1959) : A young boy, left without attention, delves into a life of petty crime.Breathless (1960) : A small-time thief steals a car and impulsively murders a motorcycle policeman. Wanted by the authorities, he reunites with a hip American journalism student and attempts to persuade her to run away with him to Italy.Jules and Jim (1962) : Decades of a love triangle concerning two friends and an impulsive woman.The Leopard (1963) : The Prince of Salina, a noble aristocrat of impeccable integrity, tries to preserve his family and class amid the tumultuous social upheavals of 1860's Sicily.Persona (1966) : A nurse is put in charge of a mute actress and finds that their personas are melding together.2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) : After discovering a mysterious artifact buried beneath the lunar surface, mankind sets off on a quest to find its origins with help from intelligent supercomputer HAL 9000.Easy Rider (1969) : Through the open country and desert lands, two bikers head from L.A to New Orleans, and along the way, meet a man who bridges a counter-culture gap they are unaware of.The Godfather (1972) : The aging patriarch of an organized crime dynasty transfers control of his clandestine empire to his reluctant son.Taxi Driver (1976) : Travis Bickle is an ex-Marine and Vietnam War veteran living in New York City. As he suffers from insomnia, he spends his time working as a taxi driver at night, watching porn movies at seedy cinemas during the day, or thinking about how the world, New York in particular, has deteriorated into a cesspool.Apocalypse Now (1979) : A U.S. Army officer serving in Vietnam is tasked with assassinating a renegade Special Forces Colonel who sees himself as a god.