"The most terr[or]ific thing over the whole documentary was, how often greedy corrupt criminals ruined everything. It's just shocking to see, how [so] few people ruin the life of millions just to become rich." - @johannesbenchekmoumou8445 (inserts are mine)
#TraumaZone Part 1 1985 to 1989 (2022) by #AdamCurtis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ke600MgW1F0
For those still thinking the average Russian had anything whatsoever to do with Putin, the 2022 #AdamCurtis documentary #TraumaZone is worth a revisit. Of special interest is who it was who advised the Kremlin to take the route it did, and you'll never guess who…
Part 1 1985 to 1989
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ke600MgW1F0
The UK has been a money laundering hub for decades.
Arguably centuries, if we use @jerseyisland as an example.
#TRAUMAZONE (Adam Curtis, 2022)
While its events are a quarter century ago, I'm nonetheless wondering if this old #AdamCurtis thing might still be relevant:
#TraumaZone #Russia 1985 to 1999
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSjQL8MYniTTLA3wnZ25U-s6RgR4uJNvL
"Moscow-based international exhibition-forum “Russia” opened the Russian Ministry of Defense’s (MoD) “Army of Children” exhibit on January 14 to educate children about the military and careers in the Russian Armed Forces."
(Src: https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-january-14-2024 .)
I wonder how far the Russian people are collectively traumatised / Stockholm Syndrome? Adam Curtis' "Traumazone", comprised entirely of (mostly never previously broadcast) archive footage from the period 1985-1999, shows grim history making for a grim culture and society.
Russian sources claimed that Russian forces are preparing to launch a new offensive in the coming weeks once the ground freezes in eastern and southern Ukraine. Russian literary critic and alternative historian Sergey Pereslegin claimed on January 12
@lari #Yeltsin’s complete non-good-guyness was also pointed out convincingly in Adam Curtis’ excellent #TraumaZone. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt22059224/
A strong recommendation.
Started watching #TraumaZone by #AdamCurtis last night.
What a surreal dive into the absurdity of #SovietUnion! (I binged to the third episode, and #communism is finally collapsing.)
Feels also surreal to remember how normal it all was considered back in the day here in #Finland. Crappy? Sure! Unjust? Sure! Bureaucratic? Sure!
But doomed to fall in a couple of years? Are you kidding me! #USSR’s here to stay, just get used to it.
Adam Curtis on the fall of the Soviet Union's worrying parallels with modern Britain (and everywhere else) and the difficulties of governance in the Age of Extreme Individualism
https://youtube.com/watch?v=663vLIYBcpI&feature=share
#whywecanthavenicethingsanymore #wehavemettheenemy #AdamCurtis #politic #peakdystopia #Traumazone
Fabulous documentary!
Here's another site where all the parts of this documentary are available: https://thoughtmaybe.com/russia-1985-1999-traumazone/
Since the late 1980s, BBC news crews have filmed all across the Soviet Union and Russia, but only a tiny portion of their footage was ever used for news reports. The rest was left unseen on tapes in Moscow. Filmmaker Adam Curtis obtains these tapes and uses them to chronicle the collapse of the Soviet Union, the rise of capitalist Russia and its oligarchs, and the effects of this on Russian people of all levels of society, leading to the rise to power of Vladimir Putin, and today's invasions of Ukraine. The films take you from inside the Kremlin, to the frozen mining cities in the Arctic circle, to tiny villages of the vast steppes of Russia, and the strange wars fought in the mountains and forests of the Caucasus.
Joanna Bryson, blathering
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