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This documentary is very informative, but not in the way the producers intended.

Most white people would see it and think that they should do better, but instead of listening, they should just watch, understand that you never help and always making a bad situation worse.

Never work against nature, never push the scale of evolution, you are just creating an unbalance with an impact beyond your life and ego.

Africa was in a perfect balance before white aid took hold. Misplaced altruism is always pathological, when you ignore your own tribe, what happens next to you, and go to help people on a different continent, you can be sure you are doing harm.

The mix of newsreels and the personal stories makes it seems like it's a history lesson, but comes out as subjective as asking any political activist involved to write about the Yugoslav or Cypriot wars.

The emotional aspects masks any factual mistakes or general aspects of war, it's all black and white, good vs bad. I don't want to break or make anyone victime status, but the ending is beyond laughable to anyone that knows any post war Romanian history.

The production is abysmal, the images presented have almost nothing to do with the narration, at some point the disjointed pictures makes the movie frustrating and tiresome, like searching for words in an alphabet soup.

The production is very good, the acting is above the grade and the story better then the typical Hollywood oversimplification you would expect, but the political aspects are as caricatured as you can get.

What is the difference between a hero and traitor? Does being a sociopath, always acting selfishly and immorally, and stepping over bodies for your own interest, make you a good person? The answer is simple, if you are on the winning side it doesn't matter.

As someone that is interested in this part of history I know we will never get the whole picture about Pacepa's betrayal, story that inspired this series, as the coverups and ideological spins are still perpetuated to this day.