Moscow. Masked men interrupted the screening of Agnieszka Holland’s film. “Get out of Russia, fascists!”
Dozens of masked men interrupted the screening of Agnieszka Holland’s film in Moscow. They intimidated the audience and insulted them. Three of them were detained.
Russian human rights activists are outraged by Thursday’s incidents at the Moscow headquarters of the “Memorial” association. During an evening screening of Agnieszka Holland’s “Mr. Jones,” about a British reporter who described the Great Famine in Ukraine in 1933, dozens of masked men burst into the screening room. The attackers shouted to the assembled audience: “get out of Russia,” “slobs” and “fascists.”
The presentation of the film was co-organized by the Polish Institute in Moscow. The director of the institution, Piotr Skwieciński, was present. This is not the first time in Russia that masked hooligans have tried to thwart the presentation of exhibitions, books or films devoted to Stalinist crimes.
Masked men disrupted the show
According to witnesses, the attackers ran into the screening room and shouted at the audience to lie down on the floor. Throwing insults at the participants of the presentation, the masked men shouted that there was no place for “foreign agents” in Russia. The Memorial Association has been stigmatized by the Russian authorities with this term for documenting violations of human rights and civil liberties in Russia and investigating Stalinist crimes. By law, it must mark all of its publications in this way. Memorial has already been repeatedly punished with heavy fines for failing to do so.
According to witnesses to Thursday’s incident, the organizers managed to detain three perpetrators and hand them over to the police.
The Memorial Association stresses that Agnieszka Holland’s film is accredited by the Russian Ministry of Culture, and the screening itself was held in accordance with Russian regulations.
But why did the Russian police require viewers to fill out a form with personal data: name, explanation of how viewers know about the film, where they live, what citizenship they have? And why did they take the equipment of the “Memorial”?
Lol
Maybe my information is fake, but here are the sources (in Russian)
It’s funny, because Russia currently is as close to fascism, as it possible in modern world.
Philosoraptor: “Why would masked fascists run into the place, if they wanted to keep the place free of fascists?”
A bit of context: when Russians say “fascists” they usually mean nazis. That’s because it was embarrassing for USSR to realise that they fight other socialists.
Russia is trash, news at 11
Never heard about this movie. Now I’ll definitely watch. Streisand effect))
there was a famine full of lodges after the war on the territory of the entire USSR. Ukraine still lived very well; they grew up almost all food.
FYI: the movie (Mr Jones) is on a british journalist documenting famine in Ukraine
Reddit tankies & janitors on subforums dominated by 20-ish US “wokes” also hate and downvote / remove “Mister Jones” when it’s mentioned because it criticises communism, shows how evil Walter Duranty from New York Times was, discusses Holodomor AND makes it obvious that Holodomor was a deliberate communist crime.
(The makers of “Mister Jones” are left wing BTW but from the perspective of modern US “wokes” a normal left wing person = fascist. They know what REAL communism is unlike we who LIVED under communism before they even started existing.)
at first I thought Agnieszka Holland was some kind of neo-nazi and the protestors were antifascists, but no, it turns out they were just stalinoid tankies -_-
From the title i thought that the name of the movie is “Get out of Russia, fascists!”
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Moscow. Masked men interrupted the screening of Agnieszka Holland’s film. “Get out of Russia, fascists!”
Dozens of masked men interrupted the screening of Agnieszka Holland’s film in Moscow. They intimidated the audience and insulted them. Three of them were detained.
Russian human rights activists are outraged by Thursday’s incidents at the Moscow headquarters of the “Memorial” association. During an evening screening of Agnieszka Holland’s “Mr. Jones,” about a British reporter who described the Great Famine in Ukraine in 1933, dozens of masked men burst into the screening room. The attackers shouted to the assembled audience: “get out of Russia,” “slobs” and “fascists.”
The presentation of the film was co-organized by the Polish Institute in Moscow. The director of the institution, Piotr Skwieciński, was present. This is not the first time in Russia that masked hooligans have tried to thwart the presentation of exhibitions, books or films devoted to Stalinist crimes.
Masked men disrupted the show
According to witnesses, the attackers ran into the screening room and shouted at the audience to lie down on the floor. Throwing insults at the participants of the presentation, the masked men shouted that there was no place for “foreign agents” in Russia. The Memorial Association has been stigmatized by the Russian authorities with this term for documenting violations of human rights and civil liberties in Russia and investigating Stalinist crimes. By law, it must mark all of its publications in this way. Memorial has already been repeatedly punished with heavy fines for failing to do so.
According to witnesses to Thursday’s incident, the organizers managed to detain three perpetrators and hand them over to the police.
The Memorial Association stresses that Agnieszka Holland’s film is accredited by the Russian Ministry of Culture, and the screening itself was held in accordance with Russian regulations.
But why did the Russian police require viewers to fill out a form with personal data: name, explanation of how viewers know about the film, where they live, what citizenship they have? And why did they take the equipment of the “Memorial”?
Lol
Maybe my information is fake, but here are the sources (in Russian)
[https://novayagazeta.ru/articles/2021/10/14/siloviki-demontirovali-pozharnuiu-signalizatsiiu-v-zdanii-memoriala-bez-nee-ofis-mogut-opechatat-news](https://novayagazeta.ru/articles/2021/10/14/siloviki-demontirovali-pozharnuiu-signalizatsiiu-v-zdanii-memoriala-bez-nee-ofis-mogut-opechatat-news)
https://twitter.com/SotaVision/status/1448732256005201921
It’s funny, because Russia currently is as close to fascism, as it possible in modern world.
Philosoraptor: “Why would masked fascists run into the place, if they wanted to keep the place free of fascists?”
A bit of context: when Russians say “fascists” they usually mean nazis. That’s because it was embarrassing for USSR to realise that they fight other socialists.
Russia is trash, news at 11
Never heard about this movie. Now I’ll definitely watch. Streisand effect))
there was a famine full of lodges after the war on the territory of the entire USSR. Ukraine still lived very well; they grew up almost all food.
FYI: the movie (Mr Jones) is on a british journalist documenting famine in Ukraine
Reddit tankies & janitors on subforums dominated by 20-ish US “wokes” also hate and downvote / remove “Mister Jones” when it’s mentioned because it criticises communism, shows how evil Walter Duranty from New York Times was, discusses Holodomor AND makes it obvious that Holodomor was a deliberate communist crime.
(The makers of “Mister Jones” are left wing BTW but from the perspective of modern US “wokes” a normal left wing person = fascist. They know what REAL communism is unlike we who LIVED under communism before they even started existing.)
at first I thought Agnieszka Holland was some kind of neo-nazi and the protestors were antifascists, but no, it turns out they were just stalinoid tankies -_-
From the title i thought that the name of the movie is “Get out of Russia, fascists!”