Russian Documentary Demonstrates That Lenin Lives On
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“Lenin lived, Lenin lives, Lenin will always live.”
It was one of the most deeply ingrained aphorisms of the Soviet period. And now, nearly a quarter century after the collapse of the Soviet Union, it’s proving to be prophetic.
That’s the message of “Leninland,” a 2013 documentary film by Askold Kurov that was recently screened as part of the Message To Man film festival in St. Petersburg’s infamous Kresty remand prison.
“When I first found myself at the Gorki Leninskiye museum [the Lenin Museum located outside Moscow], I was shocked,” Kurov told RFE/RL’s Russian Service. “It turns out the Soviet period can be preserved. It is transmuted, deformed, but it is preserved. And now, after all that has happened in our country, you get the impression that that form of government, that form of society — their basic structures have never gone away.”
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“The film is about the life of the museum at Gorki Leninskiye and the people who live and work there and who are trying to preserve the spirit of those times. It is as if time was stopped — I made sort of a trip in a time machine,” Kurov says. “And for me this to some extent explained the situation in contemporary Russia, because I think we are still in a transitional phase — we haven’t moved beyond the Soviet Union.”
▻http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-YZv1QvWOM
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