Thread: Life in our countries - "good, bad and ugly"...

Originally Posted by Deborski

In American movies, Russians seem to fit into one of three categories:

1. Evil Russky
2. Cannon Fodder
3. Comic Relief

You forgot:

4. Klingons


American scientists predict that by the 24th century, Space-Russians will have evolved
to look like this, and their women will still be sexy, yet dangerous.

Originally Posted by Throbert McGee

4. Klingons
American scientists predict that by the 24th century, Space-Russians will have evolved
to look like this, and their women will still be sexy, yet dangerous.

That's what I'm talking about.
Of course, there was propaganda on the both sides. But there is a very big and substantial difference between Soviet and American propaganda. The Soviet one has never portrayed all the Americans like a gang of Klingons-Shminglos and so on. It was very tolerant to the ordinary Amercans. Yes, Soviet propaganda attacked capitalism, racism, "lobbism" (as "corruption in law"), American politicians or CIA agents etc, but it didn't touch the simple people. You can't find a Soviet movie where Americans are portrayed like bastards in everyday situations (although if we want we can find a lot of plots for such movies). On the contrary, American propaganda concentrates on this method mainly, till now.