Cold War Season 1 Episode 14 Red Spring

In the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, denial of freedom and incentive stifles ambition and achievement. The young lust for totems of America's youth culture--blue jeans and rock-and-roll. Those who work for the Soviet military industrial complex prosper. Those who do not stagnate. Defense expenditure cripples economic growth in the Soviet Union. As Communist states ponder liberalization, Czechoslovakia, under Dubcek, tries it. In August 1968, Soviet tanks crush the Prague Spring.