jae: (theamericansgecko)
Jae ([personal profile] jae) wrote in [community profile] theamericans2018-05-16 09:03 pm
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Episode discussion post: "The Summit"

Aired:
16 May 2018 in the U.S. and Canada

This is a discussion post for episode 608 of The Americans, intended for viewers who are watching the show on the U.S./Canadian schedule. (Feel free to dive in to the discussion even if you're coming in late--and you should also feel free to start a new thread if it seems too daunting to read through what's already been posted first. If you're reading this at a point where you've already seen subsequent episodes, though, please take care to keep comments spoiler-free of anything that comes after season six, episode eight.)

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quantumreality: (americans1)

Re: My review

[personal profile] quantumreality 2018-05-17 04:47 pm (UTC)(link)
The 20th Party Congress, actually. I don't know to what extent the content of the speech was known within the USSR at the time (its official existence was only acknowleged in the late 1980s, IIRC).

P&E almost certainly would have seen references to it in American literature though, and might well have been curious enough to read the translation.