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A former foreign advisor turned citizen-journalist travels to his mother's homeland of Ukraine only to discover that communism doesn't work and the main stream media is fake news.

It's patient and moody, and, although it has its truth, it's release is American propaganda timed for the Russia-Ukraine war. [ 1 ]

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• 2024-05-01

2024-05-01 ∞

• 2:00 -- Narration.
• 2:30 -- The reference to "talking farm animals" is a reference to Animal Farm - (1945 book), by George Orwell

• 2:45 --

  • Hitler
  • Goebbels
• 6:15 -- Aah yes, back when people didn't understand how communist economics operated; by making shit up.
• 9:00 -- Barry, Vale of Glamorgan (Wales)
• 10:00 -- Moscow - Soviet Union
• 10:15 -- Travel visa

• 10:30 --

  • Stringer (journalism)
  • Freelancer
  • Journalist

• 10:30 --

  • Walter Duranty
  • The New York Times
• 13:30 -- The Metropol

• 14:30 --

  • Jew's harp
  • That kid on the right is waving at the camera.
• 17:15 ~~ Joseph Stalin
• 17:45 -- Kremlin
• 19:45 -- Robbery

• 22:30 --

  • Wales
  • Western Mail (Wales)
  • United Press
  • Metro-Vickers
• 24:45 -- The Mask of the Red Death - (1842 story), by Edgar Allan Poe
• 26:00 -- Battle of the Trees - (medieval Welsh poem)
• 27:45 -- Why was the camera acting funny? It's her who was doing drugs, not the character we've been following.
• 29:30 -- Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting
• 30:00 -- Getting home safely should be a serious concern for everyone, although maybe the additional police presence persists at night and most especially because of the recent crime.
• 30:30 -- Opium den, Opium
• 31:00 -- Big Brother (Nineteen Eighty-Four)
• 32:15 -- Borscht
• 35:00 -- Ukraine

• 39:45 --

  • Caviar
  • Wine
• 43:30 -- I can't understand what she's saying. "I don't work for Stalin" is in the subtitles, but she doesn't sound like that.
• 45:30 -- Hughesovka then Stalino (now Donetsk)
• 1:00:30 -- Wasting perfectly good ammo.
• 1:11:30 -- Random wolf is random.
• 1:12:00 -- He sure knows his way around to have found his mother's old home.
• 1:20:45 -- This is a quote from Animal Farm - (1945 book), by George Orwell.
• 1:42:45 -- Five-year plans of the Soviet Union
• 1:45:30 -- President Roosevelt
• 1:47:30 -- St Donats
• 1:48:45 -- Where the fuck is this sudden super speed style coming from? It's so out of place.

• 1:54:00 --

  In August of the following year, 1935,
  while reporting in Inner Mongolia,
  Gareth Jones was kidnapped by bandits.

  He traveled with a guide, unbeknownst to him,
  connected to the Soviet secret police.

  He was shot and killed the day before his 30th birthday.

  Walter Duranty died at the age of 73 in Florida in 1957.

  His Pulitzer Prize was never revoked. [ 2 ]

  In memory of the millions killed
  in the Holodomor - Staline's famine.

Last updated 2024-05-18 at 18:12:22

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