Indiana Jones makes communists see red

[Woodmonkey]

Indiana Jones makes communists see red

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.

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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."

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[Snowden]

They really take these things seriously, don't they!

[Woodmonkey]

They sure do. I think it's a collective guilty conscience.

"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."

They caused a lot of problems for us and others around the world from the end of WW2 on until their government. They brought us to the brink of nuclear war when Kennedy was President. Who knows how many times we were there.

The Cold War is a forgotten war with many dead.

[KBay84]

They are being embarrassed on a world-wide scale. While in power, the were a world-wide menace. After the walls came tumbling down in '91, they became a world-wide joke. They can't keep up, internationally or nationally. The Russian mafia has torn the country a new sphyncter, at the expence of the people and their weak government. Forgive me for not remembering numbers, but American pilots log XXX amount of flight hours per month and have command of every and any part they need to keep a bird "up", AND the qualified personnel to do so. The Russians are flying less than 20% of their A/C, and most are hopeless "hanger queens" as they haven't the cash flow to operate and maintain their A/C or pay on time their officers and enlisteds.

So....when the Sovs/Russkies/ Commies see a movie that depicts them in less than a glorious light, they're already at the bottom and have to strike out for what little shred of dignity they have a tenuous grasp on.

[Snowden]

The old need to have somebody "below" to kick. They need a dog, I guess. That's how the old saying went, that the lowest on the totem pole kicked a dog.

Russia's revolution really resulted in the downfall of their country. Granted the Tsars lived in luxury while people starved, but they seemed to be waking up to that fact. When the rabble took over, they destroyed anything good there and put tyrants in charge of everything. The downward spiral took so much with it. Russia today is a pathetic nation.

[Woodmonkey]

The Communists destroyed them and now they're reduced to complaining about a movie that portrays them pretty accurately from what I've read. I have to see that movie.