Za Putina! Za FSB!
Today, there was a very interesting article in today's Washington Post about the recent resurgence of the Sov-uhm-Russian Secret Service, the KG-oops-FSB in popular culture in Russia.
You can see it here.
Some choice quotes:
On Sunday the Russian Defense Ministry plans to launch what it calls a channel of "patriotic TV." It will show war documentaries and feature films to create "effective informational and ideological influences to ensure the social activities of Russian citizens," Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov wrote in a letter quoted by the financial newspaper Kommersant. Last month, Ivanov, complaining about the mass media, said the "moronization of the people must be stopped."
Next, those whacky Russians will be saying "Ve Invented Ze History Channel!". But I must admit that is an awesome quote by Mr. Ivanov.
Attitudes toward the old enemy, the United States, are ambivalent in the shows and novels. Russia and America are allied in some, but in others a nefarious United States seeks to encircle and weaken Russia. In "White Legion" by Ilya Ryasnoi, a best-selling novel with a contemporary setting, Mikhail Gorbachev's reforms are cast as a CIA plot and the chaotic post-Communist society is saved from complete ruin by a secret network of former KGB officers.
This reminds me a lot of Dale Brown novels, and trashy technothrillers, etc that were all the rage after 1991. Most of them featured an evil cabal of ex-KGB agents which had a dastardly evil plan to restore Communism to save the Motherland from Ruin.
This is the truest proof that we won the Cold War, we exported our pulp technothriller trash to Russia.
Or as I'd say, in Soviet Russia, Book writes Dale Brown!
EDIT: Title Fixed, thanks to input from our Defender of the Motherland, who defends Za Rodinu from New York.
You can see it here.
Some choice quotes:
On Sunday the Russian Defense Ministry plans to launch what it calls a channel of "patriotic TV." It will show war documentaries and feature films to create "effective informational and ideological influences to ensure the social activities of Russian citizens," Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov wrote in a letter quoted by the financial newspaper Kommersant. Last month, Ivanov, complaining about the mass media, said the "moronization of the people must be stopped."
Next, those whacky Russians will be saying "Ve Invented Ze History Channel!". But I must admit that is an awesome quote by Mr. Ivanov.
Attitudes toward the old enemy, the United States, are ambivalent in the shows and novels. Russia and America are allied in some, but in others a nefarious United States seeks to encircle and weaken Russia. In "White Legion" by Ilya Ryasnoi, a best-selling novel with a contemporary setting, Mikhail Gorbachev's reforms are cast as a CIA plot and the chaotic post-Communist society is saved from complete ruin by a secret network of former KGB officers.
This reminds me a lot of Dale Brown novels, and trashy technothrillers, etc that were all the rage after 1991. Most of them featured an evil cabal of ex-KGB agents which had a dastardly evil plan to restore Communism to save the Motherland from Ruin.
This is the truest proof that we won the Cold War, we exported our pulp technothriller trash to Russia.
Or as I'd say, in Soviet Russia, Book writes Dale Brown!
EDIT: Title Fixed, thanks to input from our Defender of the Motherland, who defends Za Rodinu from New York.
posted by MKSheppard at 1:09 PM
3 Comments:
"FSBiya"? Shep, you can do better than that :P
Bleh I do it off the top of my head, you mad russian
The top of your head is better than that. :P
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