Tag: ussr

Vadim Baranov was an artist among politicians, and a politician among artists during the tumultuous times of the late 20th century and early 21st century Russia. The son of a high ranking Soviet academic (who burned out and faded away...

In between the two World Wars, the then nascent Soviet Union, in a barbarous act of mismanaged nation building, starved north of seven million Ukrainians to death, all the while violently appropriating the land and the crops from the 'bread...

In my original review for the film, I talked about how Red Army is a gem of a film, a movie about hockey that can be loved by fan and neophyte alike. Much more than simply a documentation of a...