Putin is referring to apologizing to the West, not to the necessary reconciliation needing to take place between STILL LIVING Russians IN Russia who experienced the fall out from the Stalin system directly.
I am of the belief that America has confronted and overcome slavery, and we have enshrined the legacy of the civil rights movement with things like Reagan’s enactment of Martin Luther King Day as a holiday.
In today’s Russia, if you even want to so far as make or show a film condemning or even exploring anything not so appetizing from the Soviet past, you will be banned, rejected, and not get funding from the Culture of Ministry.
>I am of the belief that America has confronted and overcome slavery, and we have enshrined the legacy of the civil rights movement with things like Reagan’s enactment of Martin Luther King Day as a holiday.
And today it’s perfectly fine to be racists against whites in America. If you’re going to try and puff us up as a nation, might want to try a subject that hasn’t turned into such a disaster.
>In today’s Russia, if you even want to so far as make or show a film condemning or even exploring anything not so appetizing from the Soviet past, you will be banned, rejected, and not get funding from the Culture of Ministry.
In America, the discoverer of the shape and operation DNA a Dr. James Watson has been banned and publicly shunned noting that the Average African IQ is 70 and attributing that as the reason that African nations are not well functioning. Before you go around pointing out specs in other nations eyes, you might want to check the log in the American eye first.
Both Russia and the US have things that cannot be publicly said without destroying one’s ability to earn a living.
‘’’’I am of the belief that America has confronted and overcome slavery, and we have enshrined the legacy of the civil rights movement with things like Reagan’s enactment of Martin Luther King Day as a holiday.’’’’
October 30 is a National Day of rememberance of victims of Communist repression in Russia.
Solzhenitsyn is studied at schools in Russia for three decades and counting. No Lenin and Stalin books are part of curriculum anymore.
Old idiots holding Stalin’s portraits aren’t representative.
Stalin has died 65 years ago. That is more than the average life expectancy for a post-Soveit Russian meaning he is about as contemporary for 99% Russians as Lincoln to the Americans.
What reconciliation do you want? Who has to reconcile with whom over what?
‘’’’In today’s Russia, if you even want to so far as make or show a film condemning or even exploring anything not so appetizing from the Soviet past, you will be banned, rejected, and not get funding from the Culture of Ministry.’’’’
Go fund self-loafing movie yourself. Why do you believe one have to use public funds to produce some garbage ‘art’ showing people how bad they are? Maybe you know there would be empty theaters and you don’t want to lose your own money?
What exactly is banned? Self-loathing movies were hits in FSU since about 1985 and well into late 1990s. This garbage is on DVD for a ruble per dozen. The public has somehow grown tired of it and wants something optimistic ever since.
You could sell underage Interdevochka prostituting herself to foreigners at Moscow hotels as a movie hero in 1989 but nobody wants any of it anymore.
In 2000 movie heroes were Danila Bagrov returning to Caucasus to save fellow POWs from Muslims and other stuff like this resembling older US flicks.
Is the first a fine art to you and the latter is racist and a ‘patriotic syphilis’ as you put it?
I suspect many bankrupt fine artist who immigrated to US are among people pushing the ‘patriotic syphilis’ meme against Russia.