Russian Communists call for ban on HBO's Chernobyl
The Russian Marxist-Leninist organization says the series,"demonizes the image of the Soviet government and Soviet people" and calls for libel cases against the writer and director of the show.series "demonizes the image of the Soviet government and Soviet people" and should be banned.
"The real tragedy is the 'Chernobyl' series is ideological manipulation by HBO," the party — a splinter group formed by an extremist fringe of Russia's traditional Communist Party — says. "The television series about the dramatic events of April 1986 is an ideological tool designed to defame and demonizes the image of the Soviet government and Soviet people."
under Article 129 of Russia's criminal code, although media reports in Russia note that this clause of Russia's criminal code is no longer valid. The Communists' appeal is, however, likely to fall on deaf ears: the popularity of the HBO series is such that even Vladimir Medinsky, Russia's conservative culture minister who is usually no friend of the west, has praised it.
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