{"id":11642,"date":"2019-02-04T19:21:21","date_gmt":"2019-02-05T03:21:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=11642"},"modified":"2019-02-04T19:21:28","modified_gmt":"2019-02-05T03:21:28","slug":"stalin-gets-another-hollywood-pass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/stalin-gets-another-hollywood-pass\/","title":{"rendered":"Stalin Gets Another Hollywood Pass"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Please read this piece by my colleague Paul Roderick Gregory in Defining\u00a0Ideas<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The December 17 Oscar short-listing of Marianna Yarovskaya\u2019s Women of the Gulag<\/em> in the documentary-short category created a stir in the world-wide Russian intellectual community. Yarovskaya, a dual citizen and a graduate of both Moscow University and USC, is the first Russian woman to be so short-listed since the founding of the Russian Federation. While official Russian media limited coverage to a brief announcement on the Kultura<\/em> channel, Russia\u2019s small liberal media celebrated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hopes for a historic Russian Oscar were elevated when Hollywood\u2019s seven top gurus all predicted nomination. When Women of the Gulag <\/em>fell short of a nomination,<\/em> social media redirected to a discussion of Hollywood\u2019s silence on Stalin\u2019s genocides, which are among the worst in modern history. (By \u201cHollywood,\u201d I mean L.A.\u2019s international film community).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the sometimes-heated online exchanges that followed, \u201cAndrew\u201d explained Hollywood\u2019s leniency towards Stalin as the choice of the lesser evil\u2014Stalin over Hitler\u2014made back during World War 2. \u201cTatyana\u201d opined that Stalin\u2019s terror is an \u201cinternal\u201d matter. Hitler started a world war. Stalin did not. \u201cYulia\u201d ventured that Hollywood\u2019s political inclinations prompt it to ignore the crimes of communist regimes, be they Stalin, Mao, or Fidel. In contrast to its reticence on communism, Hollywood has provided extensive coverage of the crimes of fascist regimes. (A notable exception is \u201cThe Killing Fields,\u201d set in Pol Pot\u2019s Cambodia with seven Oscar nominations and three wins.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Please read this piece by my colleague Paul Roderick Gregory in Defining\u00a0Ideas The December 17 Oscar short-listing of Marianna Yarovskaya\u2019s Women of the Gulag in the documentary-short category created a stir in the world-wide Russian intellectual community. Yarovskaya, a dual citizen and a graduate of both Moscow University and USC, is the first Russian woman to be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1191,1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-31M","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12917,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/do-bidens-tough-new-sanctions-give-putin-nord-stream-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":11642,"position":0},"title":"Do Biden’s ‘tough new sanctions’ give Putin Nord Stream 2?","author":"victorhanson","date":"March 5, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"An article by my Hoover colleague Dr. Paul Gregory in The Hill Western\u00a0media\u00a0is greeting the Biden administration\u2019s Russian sanctions as \u201csignaling a tougher stance on Russia than under former President Donald Trump.\u201d\u00a0Vladimir Putin\u00a0likely thinks otherwise. 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