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Re: More from the Giancarlo weekend

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Posted by Bruce from DC on April 26, 2000 at 14:49:47

In Reply to: More from the Giancarlo weekend posted by Victor Khomenko on April 26, 2000 at 11:09:02:

You should not be surprised at this, given the long-standing alliance between the European artistic community (and, to slightly lesser degree, the US community) and the communist left. The Spanish Civil War, in particular, has been romanticized at least since Earnest Hemingway wrote "For Whom the Bell Tolls." The problem is that facsim lost the contest, and its evils were laid bare long before the same fate befell European/Russian communism and its evils were laid bare. And, of course, the persistence of belief even in the face of contrary evidence is a well-documented human phenomenon.

Other "propaganda" films that come to mind:
"z" by Costa-Gavras (1967) very entertaining
"JFK" by Oliver Stone; laughable to anyone who lived through the period and remembers the events depicted
"The Hurricane" a vicious, dishonest, racially inflammatory polemic that was too much even for Hollywood to swallow; too bad -- a wonderful performance by Denzel Washington wasted

As for who is worse, Nazis or Communists? One can't make a comparison. Unlike the Russian communists, the Nazis didn't have 70 years to play in the sandbox. You must admit that they certainly got off to a *promising* start with the "final solution."

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