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How it has happened that shameless propaganda now-days called a "documentary"? If "Ukraine on Fire" is documentary, than you can call a documentary "Hitlerjunge Quex" or "Jud Süß". Completely biased narrative promoting anti-Ukrainian fabrications of Russian Federation.
However considering earlier promotion by Oliver Stone of such dictators as Hugo Chavez ("Mi Amigo Hugo") and Fidel Castro it's hardly surprising that he now promotes Putin.
This is not the first time the director has fallen for Russian propaganda. The thesis of the JFK, which blamed the CIA for the murder of our 35th president, was based on a hoax published in a communist-controlled Italian newspaper in 1967. "By the late 1970's" Cambridge University historian Christopher Andrew and Soviet defector Vasili Mitrokhin wrote in their magisterial account of the Soviet intelligence apparatus, "the KGB could fairly claim that far more Americans believed some version of its own conspiracy theory of the Kennedy assassination, involving a right- wing plot and the US intelligence community, than still accept the main findings of the Warren Commission." The enduring power of this bit of Soviet disinformation owes much to Stone's film. Likewise, the 2013 book Stone co-authored with American University historian Peter Kuznick, The Untold History of the United States, delivers the potted Josef Stalin version of the Cold War, in which the Nazi-Soviet pact was but a minor detail and the Berlin Wall an entirely defensible reaction to Western re-armament.
score 1/10
smoothrunner 22 November 2016
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13-4-2021 12:05:10