http://www.reuters.com/article/oddly...c=22&sp=trueBy Denis Pinchuk
ST PETERSBURG, Russia (Reuters) - Russian Communist party members condemned the new Indiana Jones' film on Friday as crude anti-Soviet propaganda that distorted history and called for it to be banned from Russian screens.
"Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" stars Harrison Ford as an archeologist in 1957 competing with an evil KGB agent, played by Cate Blanchett, to find a skull endowed with mystic powers.
"What galls is how together with America we defeated Hitler, and how we sympathized when Bin Laden hit them. But they go ahead and scare kids with Communists. These people have no shame," said Viktor Perov, a Communist Party member in Russia's second city of St Petersburg.
The comments were made at a local Communist party meeting and posted on its Internet site www.kplo.ru.
The film, the fourth in the hugely successful Indiana Jones series, went on release in Russian cinemas on Thursday. Russian media said it was being shown on 808 screens, the widest ever release for a Hollywood movie.
In past episodes Indiana Jones has escaped from Nazi soldiers, an Egyptian snake pit, a Bedouin swordsman and a child-enslaving Indian demigod.
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"Harrison Ford and Cate Blanchett (are) second-rate actors, serving as the running dogs of the CIA. We need to deprive these people of the right of entering the country," said another party member, Andrei Gindos.
Though the ranks of the once all-powerful Communist Party have dwindled since Soviet times, its members see themselves as the defenders of the achievements of the old Soviet Union.
Other communists said the generation born after the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union were being fed revisionist, Hollywood history. They advocated banning the Indiana Jones outright to prevent "ideological sabotage."
"Our movie-goers are teenagers who are completely unaware of what happened in 1957," St Peterburg Communist Party chief Sergei Malinkovich told Reuters.
"They will go to the cinema and will be sure that in 1957 we made trouble for the United States and almost started a nuclear war."
"It's rubbish ... In 1957 the communists did not run with crystal skulls throughout the U.S. Why should we agree to that sort of lie and let the West trick our youth?"
Vladimir Mukhin, another member of the local Communist Party, said in comments posted on the Internet site that he would ask Russia's Culture Ministry to ban the film for its "anti-Soviet propaganda."
The Indiana Jones film is not the first Hollywood production to offend Russian sensibilities.
In 1998 the Russian parliament demanded the government explain why the Hollywood film "Armageddon" - which depicted a dilapidated Russian space station that blows apart because of a leaky pipe - was allowed onto Russian cinema screens.
A government official at the time said the film, starring Bruce Willis as the leader of a team of astronauts sent to deflect an asteroid on a collision course with Earth, "mocked the achievements of Soviet and Russian technology."



I love it. What about the Cuban missile scare you knuckleheads! Maybe the Commies should teach their kids how the commies killed millions and millions of their own people for the sake of the motherland. Nah lets go back to USSR days and censor anything and everything.

I thought one commie looked pretty good.



P.S. Saw it last night. Good movie.

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Didn't see it yet, but will soon. I loved those movies as a kid!

Basically, they just substituted commies for nazis. After all. It did take place in the fifties so there had to be some "better dead than red" elements.

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The movie should be banned... because the ending is such a convoluted mess. You'd think with 19 years to work on it, they could've come up with something a little more coherent.

If those knucklehead commies had actually watched it, they might have noticed that it's somewhat critical of the paranoia of the McCarthyism era. The Americans look like xenophobic dopes more than once. College students have an anti-communism rally with "better dead than red" banners, the FBI suspects that Indy is a commie sympathizer, and Indy himself sneers "I like Ike" at the reds.

Anyway, those guys have a pretty low opinion of their own citizens if they think they'll take this story at face value and think it actually happened.

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Wow. They had the guts to make the bad guys the bad guys. Normally Hollywood insists that the baddie be some kind of right-winger. (Even at the height of the Cold War, the James Bond movies made the KGB out to be a bunch of good guys.)

Honestly, though, if the USSR had produced a few women who look like Cate Blanchett, the Wall might have stayed up.

Your theory is dead Illini.

Agreed. Its a shame that the Nazi's have been made to look like such villians in Hollywood. I mean we all know only a few hundred thousand people were killed in WW2.

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That photo is evidence that the theory is correct.

I'm not saying the women weren't there. They just didn't come out like that under the Soviet system.

Anne Applebaum, a Washington Post columnist, came up with a macroeconomic analysis for the sudden explosion of beautiful Slavic women in the last dozen or so years.
The Slate article uses a photo of Maria Sharipova to make its point, which parallels mine nicely.

My bad. When I recast a sentence, I left out "Since the mid 1980s or so."