Friday, May 23, 2008

Indiana Jones and the Dignity of Communism

Communist Defense Force, unite!

Russian Communist party members condemned the new Indiana Jones' film on Friday as crude anti-Soviet propaganda that distorted history and called for it to be banned from Russian screens.

Actually, this guy has a pretty good point:

"What galls is how together with America we defeated Hitler, and how wesympathized when Bin Laden hit them. But they go ahead and scare kidswith Communists. These people have no shame," said Viktor Perov, aCommunist Party member in Russia's second city of St Petersburg.

The evil communist is not only a bit of a tired stereotype but one about twenty to forty years past its expiration date.  Didn't we learn anything from Sting's The Dream of the Blue Turtles?  The Russians love their children too!