Elric

2y

“The cinema is for us the most important of the arts"

• Lenin
  

I know it is hilarious and easy to roast, but at the same time it's better than thinking you know a country from the way Hollywood portrays it (and I can't afford to travel everywhere I wanna experience). The films and docs are the closest you can get to really experiencing historical moments in time for a country and you can learn a lot from studying the artistic freedoms allowed.

I will get cooked for this but I believe it's the job of the artist to convey the truth, especially when you can't get it from your government. In the 20s, when USSR was objectively not a dictatorship, they were cranking out around 130 films per year which helped spread socialism all over the world with things like Strike! And Potemkin. Naturally, everybody had their own definition of socialism so the party relied on filmmakers own fervent feeling about socialism to crank them out while they slowly wrestled control of the new government, but eventually the Bolsheviks wanted artistically worthwhile, commercially successful and politically correct films (unrealistic) so 130 a year trickled down to 35 films per year by 1933 as Stalin tightened his grip on the industry (in addition to banning all imported films) and anybody that didn't toe the line was gonna fking regret it. Just a microcosm of what was happening everywhere and it definitely did not help their cause at all. They CC themselves saw how barren Soviet culture had become as a result, and worried that "films no longer served the agitational needs of the party" and backpedaled on the previous position of only making politically correct masterpieces. Even as early as '52, Malenkov was devoting speeches to address the problem which is why we started to get actual interesting cinema from the USSR again after the thaw but it would never reach the heights of the 20s again.

Elric

2y

I do crank some Victor and flex on them

spongebob

2y

oh f*** have u seen lenin in october?

Elric

2y

recently

spongebob

2y

Everytime he came around the corner:
"Leeeeeeeeeenin!!!!!!!!!!"

been wanting to rewatch

Elric

2y

I cant believe how campy it is expected the 20th anniversary of the revolution flick to be super serious

spongebob

2y

I love it though,

What's probably making me like it more is I like who it's about so that adds to my enjoyment just seeing someone playing lenin

Boris whatever his name was

twntytwntys

2y

I’ll keep it short and honest, I’m on the border with communism and capitalism. I see both sides like Chanel. I won’t even get into it too deeply (unless yall ask).

How is okay or even remotely possible for the Castros to be worth 1 BILLION and the population to be on the brink of starvation?

WRU

2y

also using movies to 'educate' yourself on the history of the country is hilarious lowkey prime westerner with their 'consumption as way of understanding the world' mindset

must've watched them s***s like 'haha how did they fall for that' with his creased copy of 1984 on the shelf

fun guy

2y

doing a presentation on American cops being trained in Israel and theres a suspected Zionist in my class

spongebob

2y

Look him in the eyes the entire time

fun guy

2y

its a girl

fun guy

2y

its a girl

WRU

2y

of course it is

Choking

2y

Trotsky was 26 during the 1905 revolution it’s so over for me