like I know a lot/all of it is bs (I've learned the murder of all the funeralgoers visiting Moscow is entirely fabricated) but I thought the movie was pretty funny. does this make me a bad leftist
like I know a lot/all of it is bs (I've learned the murder of all the funeralgoers visiting Moscow is entirely fabricated) but I thought the movie was pretty funny. does this make me a bad leftist
I really feel like the Soviet backdrop of the whole movie was secondary. Like, you could have made almost an identical movie with in a different setting. It's just a group of people vying for power in a comedic setting. If anything, I think the movie challenges a few notions that westerners have about the USSR. For example:
When Stalin died, the people mourned. This actually happened, when he died the Soviet people were genuinely very sad about it, and the movie hits on this. They were definitely not all "whew no more of that murderous dictator Stalin!"
Even the most powerful people in the USSR lived modestly. Khrushchev, Molotov, et al... they lived in just normal apartments, instead of in luxury. Pretty sure that was true throughout Soviet history for all the leaders, even Stalin. Now contrast that with the opulence nearly every senator and most reps live in.
A minor point, but the movie shows the Orthodox bishops showing up to the viewing. Most Americans assume religion was completely banned and anyone who had even a Bible was executed by the USSR, or some shit like that.
Having watched Veep, it actually makes the Soviet politburo look reasonable by comparison.