Contagious,....yes ignorance must be contagious,it flows between all of the uneducated.Anti-soviet ????? This film shows how life was,yes was.Nothing is anti anything.Is The Grapes Wrath,anti-American ? This shows a time,a place,crimes,and them being solved,they tell us the story as it was,so just watch.
Living under communist rule in the USSR you couldn't say what you wanted, you had to learn to read between the lines when reading Pravda or watching TASS, since it never admitted what was bad in USSR or told what was good about the West. All that they let in were films like The Grapes of Wrath, trying to show how terrible life in the West was. The NKVD/KGB watched everyone. Unless you were in power or a mindless robot, it was NOT a good place to live. I find it surprising people question this.
@Supercreep1000 Considering this movie was made not long after the USSR was dissolved, it's probably understandable that there were still hostile feelings towards them. Or at least criticism of them was almost the politically correct, and expected thing when it comes to depicting the soviets in film.
@Supercreep1000 I think it strange so many people are unaware of how bad it really was in the Soviet Union, it being a police state. (I think Child 44 is a good book in conveying something of this... at least I thought so)
jesus can u people just watch the freaking movie and stop fighting grow the fuck up...
MARKO8885VTC 5 months ago 4
Contagious,....yes ignorance must be contagious,it flows between all of the uneducated.Anti-soviet ????? This film shows how life was,yes was.Nothing is anti anything.Is The Grapes Wrath,anti-American ? This shows a time,a place,crimes,and them being solved,they tell us the story as it was,so just watch.
billy1212ist 9 months ago 2
Can someone from the old SU tell me if it was possible to buy pop music/ rock/ metal etc in the 60s onwards? Thanks.
Noodles37UK 10 months ago
Living under communist rule in the USSR you couldn't say what you wanted, you had to learn to read between the lines when reading Pravda or watching TASS, since it never admitted what was bad in USSR or told what was good about the West. All that they let in were films like The Grapes of Wrath, trying to show how terrible life in the West was. The NKVD/KGB watched everyone. Unless you were in power or a mindless robot, it was NOT a good place to live. I find it surprising people question this.
joseypussycat 1 year ago
Very under-rated movie.
GoldeneyePwner 1 year ago 2
It's not about 'the movie', it's not about a country, it's not about anything political.
It's about US.
You. Me. US.
As Donald Sutherland's character replys, "Not the goals, comrade, just the methods".
twinstu50 1 year ago
Is it possible not to fall in love with Stephen Rea in this movie :-)
Dige85cph 1 year ago
great movie with completely unnecessary elbows thrown at Soviets. :strange:
Supercreep1000 1 year ago
@Supercreep1000 Considering this movie was made not long after the USSR was dissolved, it's probably understandable that there were still hostile feelings towards them. Or at least criticism of them was almost the politically correct, and expected thing when it comes to depicting the soviets in film.
championofcathay 1 year ago
@Supercreep1000 I think it strange so many people are unaware of how bad it really was in the Soviet Union, it being a police state. (I think Child 44 is a good book in conveying something of this... at least I thought so)
joseypussycat 1 year ago
@vorkutaman i know lol, this is a good film but it seems to be full of anti-soviet propaganda
rocksoliddude1 1 year ago