My point was that the great majority of Soviet-era entertainment did not have any political content. ;)
Like this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlLd3Yf0eio and this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJxgItBjJa0
--- On Mon, 6/15/09, Itamar Shtull-Trauring <itamar at itamarst.org> wrote:
> From: Itamar Shtull-Trauring <itamar at itamarst.org>
> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Politicization of everyday life
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Date: Monday, June 15, 2009, 4:57 PM
> > The number of Americans who
> erroneously believe that Soviet-era pop
> > culture/entertainment was all propaganda is amazing.
> Rivalled only by the
> > numbers of people who erroneously believe that the
> Soviets allowed
> > religion.
>
> Some of the propaganda was pretty good entertainment,
> though. If you've
> never seen it, the Czech Western/musical parody "Lemonade
> Joe" is worth
> watching: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemonade_Joe
>
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