Who destroyed the USSR? It became possible to make a movie about anything, but the state didn’t want to give money to young independent directors for filming. Social benefits? Forget it

To be honest, I'm so fed up with Lately conversations about how “everything was fine in the Soviet Union,” that I decided to just jot down a few points with my own eyes. I lived in the USSR, at the time of the collapse of the Union I was in my third year of study, in the USSR I had already gone to vote in elections and started work book. He graduated from school and entered the institute (Moscow Mining University) in 1989, so the main points in the text below are naturally related to issues of choosing a profession, finding a job, and settling in life.

So, remember, young people - with all this in the USSR there was a complete mess. Let's even ignore the picturesque empty store shelves and the lack of food, and discuss these fundamental things that are little talked about. Let's go through the points.

1. The USSR was a country of the most hellish inequality.

It’s surprising to me that today fans of the Soviet Union are everywhere trumpeting about stratification in today’s society (a really serious problem that needs to be solved) as if under the Soviet Union everyone “were equal.” This is the most extreme nonsense you can imagine.

The USSR was an extremely stratified and, in fact, a caste society. If a society was built on the ruins of the Soviet Union, where there is stratification, but at least there are mechanisms for how to break out, get on your feet, earn a normal future, and become successful, then under the Soviet Union you were completely dependent on who your dad is. “Their children are going crazy because they have nothing more to want” by Grebenshchikov and “Major Boys” by Shevchuk are just a drop in the ocean of the folklore that existed in the USSR on the theme “the general has his own son.”

Places in best universities(and correspondingly, best job subsequently) were distributed in advance among the sons and daughters of the “thieves”. Ordinary people had no chance in this regard at all. Moreover, I personally was not in a worse position; my dad worked as a specialist in the USSR Ministry of Heavy Machinery in the 80s. However, even I did not have any real prospects for prestigious studies or work - everything was planned in advance for the children of the nomenklatura.

For a narrow circle of nomenklatura, real communism was really built in the country. They constantly traveled abroad. They were treated in special hospitals and examined in special clinics. We shopped at special distributors and specialty stores. Specialists operated for them and sewed exclusive clothes for them. Ordinary people were strictly denied access to all these bins - and it was there that they could get goods and service of acceptable quality. The nomenklatura was exempt from queues for the purchase of housing, cars, and moreover, they were entitled to all this out of turn. About the distribution of seats in prestigious universities and a prestigious job, as I said above.

In fact, for the nomenklatura in the country there was a parallel currency - “Vneshposyltorg checks”, which could be used to purchase goods in special stores with a wide range of imported goods (let’s call a spade a spade, bitch - Western) products and goods. Ordinary citizens of the USSR were denied access to these stores. This is what “real rubles” looked like, which ordinary people never in my life could I get:

The hatred of the rest of the country for the narrow caste of “thieves” reached such proportions that in the late 1980s it was not difficult for Boris Yeltsin to gain popularity by fighting privileges, which, in general, helped him get elected. Well, the lines I quoted above from the texts of famous rock musicians made it possible to assess the scale of the phenomenon.

In general, it can be argued that if you did not belong to a narrow caste of the privileged nomenklatura and you were unlucky to be born into a nomenklatura family, then your entire future Soviet life was a rather dull and hopeless black and white film “first they will save for a refrigerator, then for a TV...” (c) “Moscow doesn’t believe in tears,” and then, when everyone on the list has been bought, it’s time for the next world .

2. Normal work in the USSR = horseradish.

To begin with, in the USSR there was a rule vicious circle“no work = you won’t get a registration, no registration = you won’t get a job,” which actually completely cut off people who had fallen out of the Soviet quarry mill from opportunities in later life get a good job somewhere. That’s it, once you fall out of this squirrel wheel, you’re screwed for the rest of your life, you’ll work like Tsoi as a fireman in a boiler room (do you think he just worked there out of whim??).

That is, now young people from the provinces are abandoning everything, coming to Moscow or another large city, finding cheap housing here and starting to look for work. IN THE USSR? Forget it. you couldn't get normal work without having a residence permit. You could only obtain a residence permit if you have big city one of the relatives lived. Yes, they brought it to Moscow certain number non-resident workers "according to the limit", however this was limited quantity, and there was no free movement of labor as such.

In the USSR there was such a universal disgusting mechanism as "characteristic". When applying for any job, they demanded it from you, and there were a lot of reasons to get some kind of different record there, which excluded you from a normal career. From “did not give it to the boss” to “relatives lived in the occupied territories in 1941-1945” (such a column invariably appeared in Soviet objective certificates) - anything could ruin your characterization forever, and you would never get anywhere else in your life. Now you send your resume, go through an interview, get a job, and if you work well, you are promoted further, etc. It wasn’t like that in the USSR - the notorious “characteristic” was the most powerful barrier to find a job, at least for normal, living people, especially those who disliked Soviet power and could have gotten caught somewhere.

In general, those who were not part of the “nomenklatura caste” (see point 1) could count on a maximum of work during their lives with a salary of up to 150 rubles per month. Apart from food and basic clothing, this money could not afford Nothing. From the word absolutely.

In addition, in universities there was such a vile thing as "distribution". Upon graduation, you were forcibly sent for several years to work in your specialty in some “territories of the Far North and equivalent areas,” and nothing could be done about it. Quit and refuse - you will get a bad report and a white ticket for life. Then you won’t get a normal job.

In addition, many cities, including very large ones (for example, Sverdlovsk-Ekaterinburg or Nizhny Novgorod-Gorky), were closed. This meant that you basically couldn’t leave there anywhere without permission, even to Moscow. Among young people in closed cities there were no prospects for mobility at all. And this is how a good half of the country’s population lived.

3. Make money through entrepreneurship or freelancing? You're crazy.

Nevertheless, in the USSR there existed (and felt great) a huge number of speculators and shadow entrepreneurs (“guild workers”) who obviously did not care about Soviet laws and felt good about themselves. This was possible due to total corruption security forces, who protected them and received a corresponding kickback for this. The tip of this iceberg can probably be considered Brezhnev’s Minister of Internal Affairs Shchelokov, who immediately after Brezhnev’s death became involved in the largest case of total corruption in the Ministry of Internal Affairs and was removed from all posts.

“The second concert of the group took place on January 28, 1984 at school No. 30 in Moscow. Together with “Bravo” the concert was attended by: “Sounds of Mu” (the group’s debut), Viktor Tsoi, Sergei Ryzhenko, and the experimental duet “Ratskevich & Shumov.” The concert on March 18, 1984 at the Mosenergotekhprom cultural center ended in a scandal. The organizers and participants of the illegal concert were detained by the police and forced to write explanatory notes, since holding underground concerts for money was considered an illegal business. Zhanna Aguzarova spent several months under investigation for falsifying documents (her passport was not there). registered under the name "Yvonne Anders", under which she performed) and was forced to leave Moscow due to lack of registration"

(This is about Bravo and Aguzarova.)

4. Own housing in the USSR = horseradish.

This was generally a difficult problem for younger generation(it’s not for nothing that Gorbachev, having come to power, began promising “every Soviet family a separate apartment by the year 2000” as a key populist slogan). Queues for housing lasted for decades and were also the subject of hellish folklore, it was really impossible to get an apartment. In fact, you faced the prospect of living in a cramped apartment with your parents for the rest of your life. The average provision of urban residents with living space in 1990 was 15.7 square meters per person - only under Yeltsin it grew to more than 19 square meters in 2000 (). Cramped living conditions were one of the most difficult problems Soviet man- despite the fact that the standard of housing provision in Western countries has long been dozens square meters per person.

5. Social benefits? Forget it.

You've probably heard a lot about "free Soviet medicine" and "free education", but you must remember that all of this was of exceptionally lousy quality. Access to the best hospitals, clinics, and universities was open only to the nomenklatura, for normal person it was all closed, and only run-of-the-mill institutions with the appropriate quality of services remained. I still remember Soviet medicine with a shudder; in the 1990s, I was incredibly surprised to see that in our country there could be not only shabby medical institutions with boorish martinet staff and antediluvian equipment, but thanks to reforms, high-quality modern medicine with helpful staff. Yes, it is not available to everyone, and there is something to work on. However, in Soviet time there was no such thing at all.

Further, beautiful clothes, music, films - there was none of this at all. Everyone wore uniform gray and black clothes. The best Soviet in the world light industry- it was SOMETHING. Inconvenient, poorly made, ugly - these are the mildest epithets that can be used to describe the devilry that she produced. Those whose parents brought some bright item of clothing from Hungary or the German Democratic Republic aroused incredible envy at school/university.

Western films and music in general were banned. Yes, under Gorbachev, thank God, all this was weakened, but before him it was quite possible for all this, if not to go to prison, then at least to get an entry in the “characteristics” for life, after which you could only become a stoker.

Restaurants, cafes? Sit with Wi-Fi in a coffee shop with a cup of Frappuccino? Forget it. People could not afford any restaurants or cafes with their regular incomes, except very occasionally on some holiday. And then, the service staff there was so corrupted by their “exclusivity” that they quickly distinguished ordinary citizens and were openly rude to them, turning all these holidays into something extremely unpleasant (this is probably most clearly expressed in the scene in the Astoria restaurant in the film “ The meeting place cannot be changed,” where Sharapov, while waiting for Fox, drinks coffee and does not order anything else, and the bartender then begins to be openly rude to him, realizing that he has no money). And the food was hellishly tasteless (“Isn’t it possible that they will feed you delicious food in a restaurant” (c) “Moscow doesn’t believe in tears” = the honest truth).

The service personnel in the USSR were generally pzdt pzdt pzdt. “There are many of you, but I am alone” - the classic phrase of the Soviet barmaid - emphasized the permanent superiority of the one who distributes the scarce resource over any servants in line. “No experience in the Soviet trade/service sector” - this line in job advertisements that appeared en masse in the early 90s very accurately reflects the everyday humiliation and rudeness that an ordinary Soviet person had to face every day in many confrontation situations with the Soviet service sector.

6. Traveling around the world = crap.

Are you crazy, what a trip around the world. This was available only to the nomenklatura and its children. Ordinary citizens were strictly prohibited from traveling abroad; in order to get into some country of the socialist camp (the only thing that is essentially relatively widely accessible " Near Abroad"), we had to go through a bunch of "trustworthiness" checks, and so on. We all looked at the world map with undisguised bitterness, realizing that we would never see it all (fortunately, life turned out differently - thank you, Boris Nikolaevich).

7. Nothing is allowed, permission must be asked for everything.

The disgusting feature of the USSR was that the authorities there tried to control literally your every action. Well, that is, for example, it was impossible to use a photocopier and make a photocopy of even one piece of paper without permission from the KGB. People were constantly pressured into obligatory participation in party political life: party meetings, Komsomol, trade union committee, local committee. If you refuse, you won’t be included in the description of “non-participation in public life" (with subsequent problems). "You are reducing our indicators with your divorces" (c) "Ivan Vasilyevich is changing his profession" - this is exactly how the state and the "public" that served it constantly poked their nose into people's lives, including including your personal one. You don’t subscribe to the newspaper “Pravda”? How is that so bad for you? How much money did you buy for yourself [insert] - what if this is “unearned income”?

Regarding, for example, communications and the Internet, I am generally silent - I just can’t imagine that the Internet would be allowed in the USSR, this whole structure would then be covered with a big... copper basin. That is, there were two options: either we would go along the path North Korea and the Internet would not have existed in the country until now, or it would have been allowed, and then the USSR would have ceased to exist, well, not in 1991, but maybe a few years later.

8. Why then do people end up complaining?...

There are mainly three types of people who complain:

• Those who in Soviet times belonged to the “upper caste”, and then lost a lot in income, as they were not competitive in the new system;


• Those who were satisfied with a vegetable existence on 80-150 rubles and “if only there was no war”;


• All sorts of scum who deliberately invent myths about the supposed “advantages” of the Soviet Union for their own political purposes (including out of hatred for the modern civilized world).

9. What about “the millions who died in the 90s from reforms”?...

This is all just the most incredible nonsense that Soviet apologists propagate all the time. The reforms were difficult, but the increase in mortality in the USSR began a long time ago, even under Khrushchev-Brezhnev, and in the 90s it just... stopped. Look official statistics, numbers . Mortality per 1000 population:

• 1960 - 7.4 people;


• 1970 - 8.7 people;


• 1980 - 11.0 people;


• 1991 - 11.4 people ( almost double the jump in 30 years!!! );


• 1994 is indeed the peak of this past trend - 15.7 people;


• However, since 1995 there has been a decline. The reforms reversed the trend.

UPD. Here are some

That the excited public is becoming more and more nostalgic for the Soviet Union every year. It’s especially funny that among the nostalgic people there are people born after the collapse of Sovk.

That is, when old man with a blissful smile he recalls how in 1975 he traveled on a “kopek” to Pitsunda and ate cheburek on the embankment for 2 kopecks, I can still understand. His youth passed in Sovka, he was healthy, full of hope, in love, but now he is old, sick, his pension is at the level living wage. But how can people who did not live there cry about Sovka? How can people who today have the opportunity to soberly assess everything that is happening be nostalgic?

In fact, it is not surprising that every year everything appears more people who represent the Scoop as somehow light great time. For lack of anything better, state propaganda is actively exploiting the victories of their grandfathers. The first man in space, Victory Day, wiped the nose of the Americans. And it doesn’t matter that today we don’t even have to talk about victories in space - today we can’t even launch an ordinary satellite normally, rockets fall down after one. We are still the first!

Emotions aside, there was nothing good in the Soviet Union. What you call a land of opportunity was a land of lawlessness common man. It would seem, “I don’t know any other country where people can breathe so freely.” But don’t forget that collective farmers only got passports in 1974. A person could not choose where to live and where to work. Even leaving the country was not so easy, and for many it was even impossible. To this day, adults are sensitive to the word “registration”. It was impossible to just come from the village to Moscow and live there.

In the absence of private property and theft of market instruments flourished. General means “nobody’s”. They stole everything, everywhere. Even Soviet satire was not shy about this. They dragged me from work, they dragged light bulbs from the entrances. On household level Bribery flourished. To “get” something, you had to find and corrupt the right people. At least add some chocolate. The word “get” or “take” is still actively used in speech.

Praised Soviet quality ended with weapons. Goods consumer consumption did not stand up to any criticism. Every Soviet person dreamed of foreign shoes, clothes, equipment, I generally keep quiet about cars. What was especially humiliating was that often the Soviet industry could produce something other than crap; this was called the “export option.” You could drive an export Niva, but you could make shit for your people, which fell apart immediately after purchase.

The greatness of a power lay in the content huge amount parasites from various banana republics. All sorts of parasites quickly realized that they could sell loyalty in exchange for loans and weapons. All this, of course, at the expense of millions of citizens of the USSR. Citizens of the largest country in the world were denied normal food, clothing, and the benefits of civilization, because they were forced to pay for the geopolitical ambitions of the red monster out of their own pockets.

As soon as the flow of weapons and free money dried up, the purchased “friends” quickly fled, kicking their partners in the ass. I have traveled all over the world, and everywhere the situation is approximately the same.

Oh okay, let's fast forward to Somalia for a second. Haven't been there? .

In 1974, the USSR and Somalia entered into a full-scale agreement on friendship and cooperation for 20 years. Several thousand Soviet military advisers and specialists arrived in the country. The Somali Armed Forces began to receive soviet weapons And military equipment. In return, the USSR received at its disposal a number of strategic objects on the territory of Somalia. An entire quarter was built in Berbera, which is still called “Moscow”.

“And that’s what struck me - how instantly a friend can become an enemy,” recalled one Soviet diplomat. “Even in the morning, my Somali colleagues and I greeted each other and smiled at each other. In the evening we were already enemies. For Moscow, lulled by tales of unbreakable friendship, it was an unpleasant surprise. But for us it’s a real nightmare. In the houses where they lived Soviet families, electricity and water were turned off. Angry crowds gathered around, shouting threats and insults, throwing stones. Difficulties with food began: the stores did not sell anything to the Soviets. We managed to shoot several wild pigs, the meat of which is considered inedible in Somalia."

Those who like to argue that Sovok could have been preserved may remember how the Russians were expelled from former republics. How former fellow citizens organized the genocide of Russians in Central Asia. Do you want to unite with them today? With Tajiks or Kyrgyz?

Which Scoop do you want to return to? To a country that got into the pockets and beds of its citizens? A country that wanted to control everything, from hairstyle to place of work?

There are many problems in Russia today. Poverty, lack of rights ordinary people, corruption, collapsed state institutions. But decent person, loving Russia, there is not a single reason to look back and want to return from one ass to another.

You can't live in the past, you can't live in old victories. Russia has a completely clear development path. We are part Western world And Western culture. We have all the capabilities to build strong state and without the red infection. The greatness of a country is not 15 artificially held republics and fifty banana republics sitting on the neck and sucking out all resources. The greatness of the country is when old people, having retired, eat normally and live with dignity, and do not collect money for firewood. These are free elections and independent media. This is when the country has independent courts, and you can protect yourself from the lawlessness of the cops and bureaucrats. The greatness of a country is its competitive technology and science. This is what we should strive for, and not jerk off to the red infection.

I will say right away that I make a distinction between the state and the political system of the state. The state is my Motherland, which was, is and will be mine. The homeland cannot be good or bad, just as a mother cannot be bad or good. Homeland is a given.

The political system is a completely different matter. Politic system states are something that comes and changes over time. Everything I say about the Scoop I address not to the state, but to the political system. Modern Russia is very different from Yeltsin’s Russia in the first half of the 90s. Moreover, it differs in better side. Actually, most of their angry philippines are addressed specifically to Yeltsin’s Russian Federation. Politic system modern Russia transforms.

But there was still a considerable gap in these memories. Namely, I still have not shown the face of the one who destroyed the USSR. For we need to know who destroyed the Soviet of Deputies and will destroy Russia again if the Soviet of Deputies is restored in one form or another.

So here are the photos of the killer of the Soviet Union.

It was this woman who destroyed the USSR.

She was fed up with endless queues, constant shortages, the complete meaninglessness of existence under the chatter of red slogans. So she took it, made a poster, came to Manezhnaya Square and destroyed it Soviet Union.

She had vile accomplices. Here are their disgusting faces.

Take a closer look at them. This bearded guy in the center is a typical engineer from some research institute. He was fucked by the same thing as the previous aunt. Plus, for some reason this engineer wanted some kind of freedom of speech and the opportunity to travel abroad. And he also came and destroyed the USSR. And that guy with glasses also destroyed.

And here are these aunts.

What were they missing, you ask? They had Grand Theatre and spirituality came out of my ass. They had magnificent red dresses and string bags in which you could carry milk and bread bought after long lines, and if you were lucky, even a green chicken. What were they missing, these grandmothers born and raised in the Soviet Republic? After all, they had free medicine And free education. But for some reason one day they were fed up with all this and they came and destroyed the Soviet of Deputies.

Look, look at these killers of the Soviet Union.

I want to ask the defenders of the Soviet of Deputies who hang out in my magazine: Do you find yourself or your relatives among these women? No? Well, of course. Surely all these women were brought to Manezhnaya Square from secret CIA laboratories.

But who drove this traitor to the motherland to the White House in August 1991?

Colonel Soviet army! Pilot! With orders and medals! And that’s where he came to destroy the USSR. And destroyed it. And his assistants were this woman in an ugly raincoat, and a guy in a cheap jacket, and old grandfather with medals in a taxi driver's cap, and a guy in a jacket and sweater, and a simple Soviet woman in a knitted scarf.

And hundreds of thousands of these simple ones Soviet people.

They were all fucked by the Scoop. They simply could not live in it anymore. Peer, peer, search - there are probably your friends, relatives, and friends here. Maybe even you yourself are here.

That's who destroyed the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union destroyed the simple people who lived in it, who no longer wanted the life that I write about in my Memoirs.

These people made their choice. Were they fucked? Yes, they fucked me up badly. They were promised that as soon as the state was destroyed, life would immediately begin, “like in the USA.” They were not told that in order for this to happen, it is necessary not only to collapse the state, but also to remake the brain, which is impossible in principle. Can we condemn these crowds of hundreds of thousands who rushed with all their might from the Soviet of Deputies and believed yesterday’s instructors of communist regional committees and members of the Politburo that they would really create “USA No. 2”? You can, of course, condemn it. But it’s better to just sympathize with them. They have lived their entire lives in the vile Soviet system and it is not surprising that they believed in a fairy tale that everything can be changed with the wave of a magic wand.

So, I want to believe that if all this has happened, then there will be no way back to the Council of Deputies. The price was too great to escape from there.

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A movie about the truth. In Soviet cinema, criminals have always been ordinary outcasts, fugitives from justice. Sound films appear (“Start in Life”, “Jolly Fellows”). 40s. Somehow there was no time for cinema in those days. The New Gulliver (1935) is the first large-scale combination of cinema and animation. However, honored directors (Gaidai, Ryazanov) also made films in the perestroika format, and they had money, so they rather filmed on Kodak.

70s. a swan song Soviet cinema. After entering Soviet troops Several more action films were filmed in Afghanistan (“Solo Voyage”, “Case in Square 36-80”). The fees of Soviet film actors were several orders of magnitude more modest than, for example, Hollywood ones. It is for this reason that many stars of Soviet cinema, who retired for health reasons or due to age, ended their lives, if not in poverty, then in poverty.

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away...The events and phenomena described in this article happened a long time ago, and only a couple of oldfags remember them. The films are generally designed in the traditional Soviet style; there is practically no chernukha. The most characteristic and the most popular genre of perestroika cinema - the lion's share of it can and should be characterized as black stuff.

In general, the idea of ​​​​showing Soviet people in a wild era of change is not bad. There was practically no such genre in the Soviet Union. Obviously, it was almost impossible to make a masterpiece just like that, without cultural baggage, and even in an era of change.

But, thanks to the magic of cinema, Lev Konstantinovich escaped with only a nerve disorder

The genre practically had to be rediscovered, because in the USSR documentary films were exclusively about nature, and were shown exclusively through the devil’s box. The subject even somewhat survived the perestroika cinema itself; Similar films were made until the end of the Yeltsin era.

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In the first half of the 80s, the mafia appeared on Soviet screens (winrar “Double Overtaking”). Pedivicia, what a fool, she even praised the film as “a rare example of Soviet steampunk.” The subject matter of ordinary Soviet schoolgirls.

Another wonderful one, and musical comedy"Volga-Volga", recently painted, was also filmed during that difficult time. Again, the quintessential sports film of this period is The Goalkeeper. Perhaps two thirds of the most famous and beloved films were shot during this period. 80s. Or more precisely, their first half, although some characteristic examples appeared in the late eighties.

They began to look more to the West, they shot the first (and also the last) Soviet super action film “Pirates of the 20th Century” and the disaster film “Crew”. Plots. If possible, differ as much as possible from the classic plots of Soviet cinema.

It became possible to make a movie about anything, but the state didn’t want to give money to young independent directors for filming.

About what actually existed in the USSR during the period of late stagnation and perestroika, but was kept silent by the authorities. Hence the rain from the shower. A fair share of scenes were filmed on soundstages. All this dirt, darkness and haze in the frame comes from there.

Contemporary poet Aseev wrote: “For the first time, the cheekbones in yawns do not hurt from our Soviet picture...”, which symbolizes

However, pron as such also existed - a kind of Soviet-perestroika home video against the backdrop of carpet, brown wallpaper and white stools made of chipboard, which was highly appreciated by western brothers. Some comedies were simply comedies without strong farcical elements. But low-budget and ill-conceived films clearly placed such films in the category of “perestroika comedies.” During perestroika, the subjects became more varied and fun: drugs, prostitution, punks. Films in this genre almost always became box office hits.

The plot is the same as in an ordinary social drama: problems in the life of the main character(s). The standard plot is about the same as in crime dramas, but otherwise everything is simpler and more fun.

This is partly why it premiered in 1989 (even though the film was shot in 1978). During the period of glasnost, films about the army touched upon either the theme of the war in Afghanistan, or the theme of hazing, or both. In real life, compared to what happens from time to time in the army now, the plots of the films described below will be milder. However, this does not detract from their artistic value.

This definition does not suit films about the school of the Stalinist period - they were filled not with children, but with members of Soviet society and therefore are interesting, like a report from parliament

It was and it delivered. The most satisfying thing is that about once every 7 years the film is re-released, because the people are the same and move on with their lives. In most cases, such films could be distinguished by their screensaver: not a logo like “Studio CHANCE”, but the Orthodox “By order of the State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company”. Films similar to those of Perestroika in their sharpness and intensity began to appear during the late stagnation. The USA defeated Hitler in World War II, and Walt Disney invented children's cinema - this is what Westerners think, but he was blatantly deceived.

And indeed, it was necessary to try to show a natural gargant on the screen in those days when da Orkz were not even glimmering in the project of their creators. The pioneer from Artek dreamed that he was Gulliver. The New Adventures of Puss in Boots" (1958) and a look at the same eggs from behind - "A Cheerful Dream, or Laughter and Tears" (1976).

I just forgot to edit the prepositions “on” and “in”, as a result of which I was sent to the blotter by the enlightened population. The same circus with mummered horses, however, that’s how it was intended. And not in the same way as if it were something bad.

These two heroes of the immortal Mark Twain were just as tormented by the lack of adventure as the Soviet young spectator

Alas and ah! - Sirozha had nothing to do with it, in those films he was voiced by Yaroslav Turylev’s very adult aunt. For a long time hero Soviet era only one type of predator was available - the sharks of imperialism, and the topic of wandering around the globe was revealed almost in no way, because fuck it - Trotsky and the world counter are there. In general, a mystery Bermuda Triangle opened and neutralized. All the “action” is concentrated in the second part, and the first film is “Dom-2” in Soviet style and in space.

The people demand bread and circuses! The people demand illustrations for the article! After all, if we wanted to read, we would go to the library. Thanks to this slogan, a continuous stream of propaganda, mostly documentary, appeared on the screens. Despite this, good stuff comes out like “Alexander Nevsky”, “Chapaev”, “Minin and Pozharsky” and other smaller ones, mainly about heroic story, about Civil War and about “our tanks are fast.”

Cinema has already completely neglected ideological principles. In the Soviet Union there was no sex, just as there was no soul, God and other things that cannot be seen, so the envious Western people with delight he began to grab details new for cinema. Soviet cinema is cinema produced on the territory of this country from 1919 to 1991. The official date of birth is August 27, 1919, when the “Decree on the Nationalization of Cinema” was signed.