[D66] Netflix and the Russian Government Join Forces to Spread Lies About Trotsky

[A.O.]

(fuck netflix)

http://www.ceip.org.ar/Netflix-and-the-Russian-Government-Join-Forces-to-Spread-Lies-About-Trotsky

DECLARATION
Netflix and the Russian Government Join Forces to Spread Lies About Trotsky

Leon Trotsky’s grandson, Esteban Volkov and Mexico and Argentina CEIP-LT
Centro de Estudios, Investigación y Publicaciones Leon Trotsky began a
petition repudiating the slanderous mini-series "Trotsky". The show was
first produced in Russia and aired on Channel One in 2017, then in 2018
it was purchased and aired on Netflix.

Distinguished Academics, Writers, Journalists, Artists and Political
Activists from around the world have joined in repudiating this
defamatory show, including authors Slavoj Žižek, Robert Brenner, Fredric
Jameson, Michael Löwy and Susan Weissman. The Socialist Feminist authors
of the book: Feminism for the 99%: A Manifesto have also signed: Cinzia
Arruza, Tithi Bhattacharya and Nancy Fraser. Other prominent Politicians
have signed on as well, including a member of Argentine National
Congress and former Presidential candidate, Nicolas del Caño of the PTS,
as well as the Brazilian PSOL’s mayoral candidate: Marcelo Freixo.

If you would like to add your name to the signatories of this letter or
you need information about the Statement, email leftvoiceemail at gmail.com

US entertainment company Netflix recently broadcast the mini-series
Trotsky, directed by Alexander Kott and Konstantin Statsky. The show,
which first premiered on the popular state-controlled Channel One of the
Russian Federation in November 2017 claims to be a portrait of the
Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky, but is really little more than a
political attack disguised as historical drama. While the historical
inaccuracy of the series is obvious to even the most amateur historian,
its very existence raises an important question. Why is it, a hundred
years after the Russian Revolution, that Vladimir Putin’s state-run
broadcaster has chosen Leon Trotsky as the subject for this big-budget
TV production?

Knowing Putin’s own Stalinist past as a director of the KGB and his
undisguised nostalgia for Tsarist Great Russia, one could hardly expect
Russian state TV to commission a series that honestly and objectively
portrays the life and work of the man who was, along with Lenin, the
most important leader of the October Revolution. What is Putin’s aim in
giving in this show a new lease of life to the falsehoods surrounding
Trotsky? Why heap further abuse on past revolutionaries when Russia has
already restored capitalism and nothing seems to seriously challenge the
new Russian bourgeoisie or Putin, who has run the country for the last
18 years? And why would Netflix, a media outlet reaching millions of
people in the world, choose to stream a series like this?


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