Why Korea, indeed? This documentary actually has precious little to do with that peninsula. It’s purpose seems to be to use the Soviet backed North Korea and a whole load of other tangential communist advances throughout Europe to rattle a sabre at Moscow’s imperialist agenda. The Japanese occupation of Manchuria might have been a relevant place to start had we stayed in that part of the world, but that was just the start of a global assessment of ambitious politicians from Stalin, Mussolini and, of course, Hitler. The archive is impressive but the narration is repetitious in the extreme.…