Marshall describes how the movies falsely depicted the Axis powers of World War II as a deep, unified conspiracy against the world and how Americans then falsely assumed that communist countries behaved as a unified bloc in a similar — and also fictional — way in this excerpt from Episode 210 ("Only Nixon Can Go to China") of the United States of Amnesia podcast series "Tea, Drugs, and Jesus," which explores how the United States always has misunderstood China.
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