I miss Soviet Propaganda

dudalb said:
Does Profofiev's score for "Alexander Nevsky" count?
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As well as the film itself. Which was also wholly about defending Mother Russia against the evil invaders - whose weird symbols on their helmets just stopped short of outright being swastikas - and predated the Great Patriotic War by a few years.
 
For an intimate view of a relatively privileged life under Stalin, I recommend "Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking". The author, a Russian, immigrated to the US as a child in the 1970s: most of the book talks a lot about her mother's experiences as the daughter of a fairly high-ranking Soviet official under Stalin (he narrowly avoided arrest and probable execution by being off sick when the police came to arrest him: Stalin conveniently died a few days later). The author's father was one of the technicians charged with keeping Lenin's body looking as lifelike as possible.
 
ddt said:
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As well as the film itself. Which was also wholly about defending Mother Russia against the evil invaders - whose weird symbols on their helmets just stopped short of outright being swastikas - and predated the Great Patriotic War by a few years.
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What is interesting is that the film was withdrawn from circulation after the Nazi Soviet Pact,but rereleased after June of 1941....

And,yeah, the film was not subtle about drawing parrelels between the Teutoinic Knights and the Nazis.......
 
I love propaganda art from the bottom of my heart. I could swear that the first cover for Brian Eno's "Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy)" was a propaganda poster of Chicom soldiers advancing up the mountain, through the snow, from tree to tree, but I'm apparently wrong. Too bad. Wish I had that poster.
 
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