The Canadian interview project evolved into a major documentary: Harvest of Despair won awards at film festivals and appeared on Canadian public television in the spring of 1985. In the United States the public broadcaster’s initial reluctance to show the film—it was feared to be too “right wing”—became controversial. PBS finally broadcast the film in September 1986 as a special episode of “Firing Line,” the programme produced by the conservative columnist and National Review editor William Buckley, and followed the broadcast with a debate between Buckley, the historian Robert Conquest, and
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