{"id":166145,"date":"2021-02-24T09:19:08","date_gmt":"2021-02-24T14:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=166145"},"modified":"2021-02-24T09:21:56","modified_gmt":"2021-02-24T14:21:56","slug":"dear-comrades-is-extremely-my-kind-of-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=166145","title":{"rendered":"<i>Dear Comrades!<\/i> is extremely my kind of thing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/dc-e1614176010136.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"520\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-166146\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/dc2.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"957\" height=\"715\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-166147\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/dc2.jpeg 957w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/dc2-200x149.jpeg 200w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/dc2-400x299.jpeg 400w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/dc2-100x75.jpeg 100w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/dc2-768x574.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 957px) 100vw, 957px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Written and directed by Andrei Konchalovsky, <i>Dear Comrades!<\/i> is about the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Novocherkassk_massacre\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">1962 Novocherkassk massacre<\/a>, as seen and experienced through the eyes of a woman who is still a true believer in the Soviet Union&#8217;s goals\/socialist Utopia\/etc. A &#8220;Soviet woman&#8221; through and through whose whole world view is challenged when the unthinkable (at least to her) happens. She is used to abstractions. She can&#8217;t believe in reality when it arrives. Very well done, not just in terms of giving the background of the scope\/horror of that massacre, but also about how &#8230; dreams die hard. The totalitarian mindset, the LEVEL of brainwashing through propaganda that has to have occurred &#8211; over generations.<\/p>\n<p>This film feels dangerous. <\/p>\n<p>Streaming now. <\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XdBp0KktXpk\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Written and directed by Andrei Konchalovsky, Dear Comrades! is about the 1962 Novocherkassk massacre, as seen and experienced through the eyes of a woman who is still a true believer in the Soviet Union&#8217;s goals\/socialist Utopia\/etc. A &#8220;Soviet woman&#8221; through &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=166145\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[150,2601],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166145"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=166145"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":166153,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166145\/revisions\/166153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=166145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=166145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=166145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}