The leaders and the ideology committee of the communist party in St. Petersburg, Russia is unhappy with Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal
Skull. So unhappy they've written an open letter calling for boycott of the film and naming Harrison Ford and Cate Blanchett 'capitalist puppets'.
The letter addresses Harrison Ford directly: "Your work in this film is an insult to the Soviet and Russian people, who remember the difficult
Fifties when our country was concluding its reconstruction after the Great War, but did not send merciless terrorists to the USA." The letter says
that Russians had loved Ford in previous serious roles - which include a Soviet submarine commander in K-19: The Widowmaker - but continues: "You
have no future in Russia any more. Speaking plainly, it is better for you not to come here. You will be beaten and despised"
The leader of the St. Petersburg Communist Party, Mr. Sergei Malinkovich, echoes the displeasure: "Our moviegoers are teenagers who are unaware of
what happened in 1957. 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." Comments from party members on the party's website are also acid.
As far as we know, no official statement or comment has been issued by the national Communist Party of the Russian Federation and the leader, Mr.
Gennady Zyuganov. The CPRF is the second biggest party in the Russian national assembly (the Duma)
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Someone needs to tell these guys that it's just a movie, I doubt Russian teenage movie-goers are gonna think this is a factual account of something
that happened in 1957.
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Once again we see stupidity from all sides...
Are we to believe that Russian children are not taught Russian history and that Hollywood doesn't try to re-write history in Americas favour?
It may only be a movie to some, but there's much more to a movie than a movie!
Hollywood will ALWAYS have a man behind the curtain.
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reply to post by jedimiller
those capitalist basterds
what do they think they are doing.
jks aside
who cares? what are they going to do bootleg the copy and then boycott that
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Lool Russians are so uptight >< didn't they ban Rambo ahhahahah
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it is mafia propaganda though, to the t.
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