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Politico.com</a> (recommended, no affiliation).</p><p id="7f57">Город Зеро — ‘City Zero’, sometimes translated as ‘Zerograd, dates to 1988, the height of freedom-fervour in the dying USSR.</p><p id="32ca"><i>An engineer in charge of the production line of a factory in Moscow goes to a small town to specify a mechanical part needed from a supplier. In this town everybody seems to be crazy (a secretary who works naked, he is mistaken for a rockstar and so on). The engineer witnesses a suicide and is trapped inside the town.</i></p><p id="7dcd">Dystopian twist: The director, Karen Shakhnazarov, is now a highly commended apologist for Putin.</p><p id="d0f6">Official version on <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z

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Geopolitics

‘Russkii Mir’ — ‘Russian World’ — New History?

A crazy glasnost-era film spookily foresaw Putin’s twisted historical narrative

Image credit: https://fictionhorizon.com/best-russian-sci-fi-movies/

It is a bizzare, prescient surrealist film from the Mosfilm studios. There is an excellent contextual analysis in Politico.com (recommended, no affiliation).

Город Зеро — ‘City Zero’, sometimes translated as ‘Zerograd, dates to 1988, the height of freedom-fervour in the dying USSR.

An engineer in charge of the production line of a factory in Moscow goes to a small town to specify a mechanical part needed from a supplier. In this town everybody seems to be crazy (a secretary who works naked, he is mistaken for a rockstar and so on). The engineer witnesses a suicide and is trapped inside the town.

Dystopian twist: The director, Karen Shakhnazarov, is now a highly commended apologist for Putin.

Official version on YouTube.

Russia
Putin
Film
Surrealism
Geopolitics
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