Russia bans ‘historically false’ film on Stalin deportations of Chechens

[DavidDvorkin]

Russia has refused to permit the release of a film about the mass deportations of entire ethnic groups on Stalin’s orders during World War II, calling it anti-Russian and a falsification of history.

The historical drama shot in Chechnya details how the Soviets forcibly deported the whole Chechen nation and the related Ingush group — half a million people — from their homeland in the North Caucasus to Central Asia in the winter of 1944, accusing them of lacking loyalty to the state.

A culture ministry official condemned the film as a “historical falsification” in a letter shown to AFP by the film’s scriptwriter and producer, Ruslan Kokanayev.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/05/27/russia-bans-historically-false-film-on-stalin-deportations-of-chechens/

[treestar]

1. Wow that's lame

It's a drama for starters, so that need not be strictly historically accurate.

No freedom of speech.

[arely staircase]

2. the first to stand for freedom nt

[SidDithers]

3. What are "Things you won't read about at RT?"...

Sid

[11 Bravo]

4. For the WIN!

[geek tragedy]

5. Hillary was right.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/05/hillary-clinton-putin_n_4907676.html

Putin is an absolute despot, one more insulated from internal dissent than even Stalin was.

[DavidDvorkin]

6. Indeed

He's taking it step by step because he didn't inherit a repressive system. He has to build it back up. But he's doing so.

[NuclearDem]

7. Greatest leader ever!

[DavidDvorkin]

8. And Russians better not say otherwise.