Barry Humphries Flashbacks- The 1950s- Communism and the Petrov Affair

A segment from the Australian TV series 'Barry Humphries Flashbacks', which originally aired as a four part series on the ABC in 1999. A historical retrospective of Australia during the latter half of the 20th Century, each episode focused on a specific decade:
Part 1- The 1950s
Part 2- The 1960s
Part 3- The 1970s
Part 4- The 1980s
The series featured Humphries' reflections on Australia throughout those decades, with help from his alter egos Dame Edna Everage, Sir Les Patterson, and Sandy Stone. This particular recording comes from a rebroadcast on the History Channel on Foxtel in 2019.
This particular segment, from Part 1, 'The 1950s', features Humphries, along with Sir Les Patterson, discussing the threat of Communism to Australia, which hit its peak in Australia in the mid-1950s during the 'Petrov Affair'.
Vaxfacts: The 'Petrov Affair' occurred in April 3, 1954, when the Third Secretary of the Soviet Embassy in Canberra, KGB Col. Vladimir Petrov and his wife Evdokia defected to Australian authorities. Petrov defected first, bringing with him many Soviet documents relating their espionage operations in Australia. Once Petrov defected, Evdokia was escorted by KGB agents on a flight back to the USSR. While stopped over at Darwin airport before the long flight home, Evdokia was intercepted by Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) officials, to whom she defected.The Petrov Affair has significant consequences, not only around the world, but in Australia politically- the fear of Communism and infiltation in the Australian Labor Party saw Prime Minister Robert Menzies' win the soon following 1954 federal election.
Sir Les Patterson is one of Australia's most iconic characters, with Humphries having debuted him in January 1974 at the St George Leagues Club. The complete opposite to Humphries' other famous creation, Dame Edna Everage, Patterson is rather uncouth, whose sense of humour can be perceived by many to be sexist or racist. He served in many roles in the private and public sector, serving as a cultural attache, and most notably, as the 'Minister for the "Yartz"'.

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Sir Les is Australia’s answer to
Salvador Dali.

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That Poor old Petrov Sheila being abducted by the BeeGees 😂

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That dribble at the end…😂

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Yeaahhh Baaabbby!