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Thursday, October 13, 2022

Russia 1985-1999: TraumaZone review – ingenious, essential viewing from Adam Curtis

Showing everyone from reindeer herders to scientists wrapping themselves in sticky tape to head into Chernobyl, this fine series traces the latterday Russian revolution that brought in a kleptocracy and paved the way for Putin

‘If you had a wish, what would it be?” asks the interviewer. The lugubrious woman is struggling to stick damp wallpaper back on a damp wall in a Moscow flat some time in the 1980s. “Huh?” she asks. “I don’t have any dreams and even if I did they wouldn’t come true. I don’t believe in anything or anyone.”

“And,” she adds with a cheeky grin that almost redeems the miserable scene, “I don’t believe in you, either.”

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from The Guardian https://ift.tt/rxM9lqt

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