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

[A.O.]

https://www.laizquierdadiario.com/Primeras-repercusiones-de-la-declaracion-internacional-que-critica-la-serie-sobre-Trotsky-en-Netflix?


#TROTSKYVERSUSNETFLIX
Imparable repercusión de la protesta internacional contra la difamación
a Trotsky en Netflix

Este jueves, cada vez más medios de diferentes países se hacen eco de la
declaración de intelectuales y personalidades de todo el mundo contra
las mentiras difundidas en la serie “Trotsky” emitida por Netflix. La
polémica también pisa fuerte en las redes.

Miércoles 20 de febrero | 20:30

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On 21-02-19 09:38, A.O. wrote:
> (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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