The Communists of Russia claim HBO's Chernobyl series 'demonize[s] the image of the Soviet government and Soviet people' and should be banned
The Russian Marxist-Leninist political party 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 "demonize[s] the image of the Soviet government and Soviet people" and should be banned.
The party, which had appealed to Russian state broadcasting regulator Roskomnadzor, is also calling for libel cases to be brought against the writer and director of the show.series is ideological manipulation by HBO," reads a press release issued by the party, a splinter group formed by an extremist fringe of Russia's traditional Communist Party.
The party, which does not seem to recognize that the Soviet Union has not existed for nearly 30 years and the concept of the Soviet people is one most Russians today only read of in history books, concedes that the hit TV series is largely factual, but claims "the motivation, the actions of the heroes, the order of relationships in institutions and collectives, the moral climate in Soviet society, are an absolute lie.
under Article 129 of Russia's criminal code, although media reports note that this clause of the country's criminal code is no longer valid. HBO's five-part series starring Jared Harris, Stellan Skarsgard and Emily Watson has gripped Russian viewers — and even prompted one domestic TV channel to launch plans to
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