Word: lenin
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...popular than at any time in recent memory. Homegrown movies broke records in German cinemas in 2004, taking nearly 25% of tickets sold, up from 17.5% the year before, according to spio, a trade group. And following the surprise international success in 2003 of the east German comedy Goodbye, Lenin!, German-language films have gained wider European and U.S. distribution as well. Downfall, a movie produced by Bernd Eichinger about Hitler's final days, has been nominated for the Foreign Language Film Oscar and looks set to become one of the most internationally successful German-language films ever. The Edukators...
...content of popular culture, one can safely say that if Harry had chosen to sport the hammer and the sickle of Stalin, Beria and Dzerzhinsky instead of the swastika of Hitler, Göring and Goebbels he would have attracted little notice. The widespread popularity of Che, Castro, Lenin, CCCP or Marx t-shirts, and the frequent usage of the Soviet five-pointed star or the crossed hammer and sickle, are only the most obvious examples of the curious double standard between our views on Nazism and Soviet Communism. Harvard’s own beloved “Mathergrad...
...acts as depraved, bloodthirsty and merciless as anything propagated by Hitler’s Third Reich. The lack of outrage over the continued usage of Soviet images is disturbing, because it suggests a shocking lack of historical perspective. While few are prepared to say it, the Russia that Lenin and Stalin forged in the blood of millions of nameless peasants was as evil a system as humans have yet constructed: it would behoove us to remember what happened in Soviet Russia as assuredly as we remember what happened in Nazi Germany...
...elections - and it's honest elections we're getting now," says Svistovich. In Donetsk in the industrial heartland of the east, some 700 km from Kiev, anger about the election's annulment is still rife. Most people here voted for Yanukovych, and for nine nights running, demonstrators gathered in Lenin Square to denounce "the vile Americans who hired their vile agent Yushchenko to split Ukraine and grab it piecemeal," as one recent speaker put it. Leading eastern politicians are threatening to secede and join Russia if Yushchenko wins. Says Alexander Zats, a member of the Donetsk regional legislature: "Should...
...fabrications is all too familiar now—Iraq would be a “cakewalk,” there was “no doubt” that Saddam had nukes, Mohammad Atta had met with Iraqi agents in Prague—but as another practiced demagogue, Vladimir Lenin, once said, “A lie told often enough becomes the truth...