Jon Wiener

University of California, Irvine

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Professor of History at UC Irvine and author of How We Forgot the Cold War: A Historical Journey across America

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At the end of the Cold War, it would have been inconceivable for an American television series to make heroes of Soviet spies.

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At the end of the Cold War, it would have been inconceivable for an American television series to make heroes of Soviet spies.

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