It’s funny how many people still believe that #communism destroys #art given that the average #Soviet film is a three-hour philosophical drama based on a #scifi novel or a #political satire entirely in a fictional language whereas #America has produced the #Marvel Cinematic Universe.
@Faithslayer202 Soviet sci-fi is an absolute treasure trove of far-out ideas, and some of it is so pointed that it's hard to imagine how it got past the supposedly harsh censorship. Tale of the Troika by the Strugatsky brothers immediately leaps to mind. Of course, the "free market" is its own kind of censor, isn't it?
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I watch Stalker and the Wizard of Oz together annually, because they somehow seem to be two versions of some platonic ideal. That's apropos of nothing, but I do appreciate Soviet film and music.
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Average (not the ones which have got popularity in the West) soviet film is:
1) Full of war/imperial propaganda and Russian (as in ethnicity) superiority, injecting the same tropes they use to justify UA occupation now (and successfully used to justify pre-WWII mass deportations/ethnical cleansing).
2) didn't pass censorship and was either cancelled at the screenplay stage or filmed, put on the shelf and released at the liberalization times (80-s mid-late).
You can sell this BS to the people who has never seen USSR, but I've been there and yes, I'm Russian.