Last week, Heather Streets-Salter’s talk about the Noulens Affair and the associated events in the 1930’s very much opened my eyes to the happenings during the Cold War and implications of communism throughout the world. At the beginning of her talk, I struggled to understand the associations between ethnic background and experience of communist fear, but she made it easier to conceptualize how country association was impactful in regards to treatment and consequences when convicted. In reflection, two points that Dr. Streets-Salter made proved particularly interesting to me were the gendered division of convict behavior during the Cold War and the collectivist mentality that is highlighted between nations in time of international conflict.