Thematic short films
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TRL Opium for the People ENPUB
On May 1, 1919, Lenin sent Dzerzhinsky, the head of the Extraordinary Commission, the following order: "...we must put an end to priests and religions as soon as possible. Priests shall be ...
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TRW Unjust Justice ENPUB
Last century was for Russia a century of revolutionary storms, of the greatest destruction and of one civil and two world wars, that is the very bloodiest in its history, in an unsuccessful attempt ...
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TRW Faith in the Camp ENPUB
Among the victims of the Soviet repressions, there were many clergy members, and there was a certain logic to this: the moral boundaries set forth by religious commandments hindered the atheistic ...
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TRW Soviet Life ENPUB
The saying, however, “If you want to live, learn how to dodge” reflects the condition of Soviet society well. Government action wasn’t followed by a reaction, but rather by citizens’ adaptation.
By breaking the traditional family and religion, taking control of children’s education, prying into spouses’ bedrooms and even the minds of people with the system of denunciations, refusing people respect and their basic rights, the government corrupted the country’s population. By paying peanuts for labour, it taught people to steal. The necessity of demonstrating one’s “civic position” and supporting the Party line taught people to be hypocritical.