Russia 1985-1999: TraumaZone review – ingenious, essential viewing from Adam Curtis
www.theguardian.com
Showing everyone from reindeer herders to scientists wrapping themselves in sticky tape to head into Chernobyl, this fine series traces the latterday Russian revolution that brought in a kleptocracy and paved the way for Putin

TraumaZone is the new series by Adam Curtis on BBC iPlayer

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2022/oct/13/russia-1985-1999-traumazone-review-ingenious-essential-viewing-from-adam-curtis

  • HornyOnMain
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    2 years ago

    It will help you grasp how what Putin now presides over is not so much a country as a toxic zone whose inhabitants live with chronic PTSD and compensate for that (and the psychosexual failings of its tyrant leader) by indulging his imperialist folly.

    :zizek-preference: :speech-l: