Valentin Zorin

United States of America, early 1980s. From the height of a fifty-story building located in the center of New York on a granite cliff in Manhattan, people on the streets seem small, and the problems that surround them from all sides are impossible to distinguish at all. But they are - these problems are difficult, painful and inescapable. In their tighter grip, today's America and its millions of citizens are beating...

In the next episode of the series "America of the Seventies," political commentator Valentin Zorin tells about the history of the founding, economics and social contradictions of a major center of the US steel industry - the city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Walk through one of the oldest cities in the United States - Philadelphia. "The City of Brotherly Love" or - Philly, as the Americans affectionately call it, is proud of its historical sights, because it was here that the Declaration of Independence and the US Constitution were signed.

In the most that neither is in the middle of America, on a flat, flat as a pillar, stretching for hundreds of miles, Prairie Valley known as the "Great Plain", where the Kansas River flows into its more famous sister, the deep Missouri, is the city of Kansas City, that part of it that is attached to the right bank - is listed in the state of Kansas, the one that stretches on the left - in the state of Missouri. But the city is one...

New York is the largest city in the modern world. In greater New York, together with the suburbs, in the 1970s, sixteen million people live, and in the city itself there are about ten million. Americans speak differently about New York - some argue that New York is not America, others, on the contrary, are convinced that this is the most American of all American cities. Apparently both are right...

Boston. In those distant times, when virgin forests were still rustling on the site of today's Washington, when proud and free Indians gathered at the wigwams, on the site of which New York and Chicago, Atlanta and San Francisco are now piled, a settlement already existed here on the Atlantic coast of America. called by the people who founded it - Boston.

In ancient times, when heraldry was in use and every self-respecting city considered it necessary to have its own coat of arms, it was placed on that coat of arms that was symbolic and lily for the city (fortress tower, deer head, scales of justice, sword or something else, something especially revered). To this day, it would not be worthwhile to preserve this custom and wonder what the residents of Los Angeles, the third largest city in the United States, would like to take as a symbol. They surely would - they certainly would be the California Highways. Even Americans accustomed to car herds, coming from other parts of the country to California, finding themselves in Los Angeles and its suburbs, marvel at the empty weaving of concrete and asphalt belts filled to the brim with gasoline carriages...

In this episode of the series "America of the Seventies," political commentator Valentin Zorin travels through one of the most famous and visited cities in the United States, the "pearl of the West Coast" - San Francisco. Many centuries ago, the inhabitants of ancient Hellas said that the one who was not in Athens was a blockhead, and the one who visited there and did not admire the city was a donkey, and the one who voluntarily left it was a camel. This is how Americans feel about San Francisco. Indeed, the city is very beautiful, steeply descending to the coast of the Pacific Ocean, it makes you admire yourself...

This film is about the administrative center of Georgia, the city of Atlanta, about the social and political problems of its inhabitants.

Professor Valentin Zorin, political observer of the USSR State Television and Radio Broadcasting, talks about Joseph McCarthy, an American politician, a senator from Wisconsin, who held an extremely anti-communist position, who advocated an intensification of the Cold War with the USSR. The name of McCarthy is associated with a reactionary trend in the political life of the United States of the early 1950s, dubbed "McCarthyism" and consisted in the persecution of people only suspected of sympathizing with communism and not committing any crimes.

Chicago. In the first part of the film, the author tries to answer the question: "Did the African Americans who traveled to the north, including to Chicago, succeed in finding human conditions of existence and human rights?" To the song of the American blues musician George "Buddy" Guy, the streets of the American metropolis of Chicago, black residents are shown. Dick Gregory, one of the best actors in America of the time, commenting on the conditions of life for blacks when they first moved to Chicago. Comments by African American Families on Current Conditions. Video footage of a huge Negro ghetto. Directed by Anatoly Semyonov. 1973 year.

In the next episode of the series "America of the Seventies," political commentator Valentin Zorin talks about the capital of the United States of America - Washington. There are bigger and more beautiful rivers in America, if not the Potomac River meandering among the plains of the Atlantic coast of the country, but for many reasons: geographical, economic and political order, at the end of the 18th century, it is here, at the junction of the industrial north and the plantation south, not far from places where the waters of the Potomac disappear without a trace in the vast bulk of the Atlantic, a city named after George Washington was founded.

The USA is not only about skyscrapers and highways, street bustle, and car herds. America is fields and forests, deep rivers and endless expanses, hot south and snow-covered north, high mountains and vast valleys where ordinary Americans live, work, suffer and rejoice.

In the next episode of the series "America of the Seventies" political observer Valentin Zorin travels through the most "European" city in the USA, the capital of jazz - New Orleans. Throughout the country from the northern borders to the Gulf of Mexico, the mighty Mississippi carries its waters - a river toiler, a river that feeds many generations of Americans who have lived and now live on its banks. At its mouth, at the confluence with the Gulf of Mexico, is New Orleans. However, this New Orleans is not so new. In the past, the center of the possessions of the French kings in a new light, and now the largest city, port in the south of the United States.

American cities, unlike, say, European ones, cannot boast of a history of the past two millennia. There are no old palace fences, no deep antiquity.., but even in this row, Dallas, spread out on the Texas prairies, is considered a newcomer in America - an upstart without family and tribe.

The fame of many cities is associated with something quite certain - history, famous factories, architectural monuments, the Olympic Games - after all, Located in the Nevada Desert, far from American political and cultural centers - Las Vegas, owes its dubious fame to ... roulette...