The Grapes of Wrath was banned in the USSR because showed poor people had cars

Re:The Grapes of Wrath was banned in the USSR because showed... by ak217 on Thursday January 19, 2023 @10:43PM (#34448964)

Not fair to whom? The Soviet apparatchiks who enabled Stalin's purges and banned the movie to avoid hard questions?

I remember getting a ride as in the back of my great-uncle's Volga and my uncle's Zhiguli. They lived in Moscow while we were in a suburban town (akademgorodok) where a Zaporozhets was a luxury that less than 10% of households could get. The reason I remember is the ride was a yearly treat. This was during perestroika. A few years later glasnost allowed people to see enough movies to conclude that the system was unworkable.

The Soviet Union was an evil empire start to end, built on the bones of its "brother nations" as much as their own citizens. Its troubles can't be explained away by WWII.

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Re:The Grapes of Wrath was banned in the USSR because showed... by cmrdporcupine on Thursday January 19, 2023 @10:51PM (#34449014)

Off-topic. We're talking about a specific place and time. 1948, not 1970s, 1980s USSR.

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Re:The Grapes of Wrath was banned in the USSR because showed... by ak217 on Thursday January 19, 2023 @10:55PM (#34449041)

The fact that the situation had not improved after 40 years of peace is about as on topic as can be.

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Re:The Grapes of Wrath was banned in the USSR because showed... by pessimizer on Thursday January 19, 2023 @11:12PM (#34449163)

There weren't 40 years of peace between 1945 and 1948.

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Re:The Grapes of Wrath was banned in the USSR because showed... by dragonwriter on Friday January 20, 2023 @12:48AM (#34449681)

Or, for the USSR, between 1945 and 1985, either.

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Re:The Grapes of Wrath was banned in the USSR because showed... by ak217 on Friday January 20, 2023 @02:41PM (#34458635)

Right. After 1945, the Soviet Union didn't suffer war on its territory - it exported it abroad instead, from Korea to Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Vietnam and Afghanistan. Proletariat of all countries, unite!

Meanwhile, the economic conditions in 1985 were just as broken as in 1945. I know because I was there, as a brainwashed oktyabryonok, being sent to stand in a bread line with a talon (a rationing ticket for bread). In Moscow Oblast, the most prosperous in the country.

The level of naivete and pedantry in this whole discussion is amazing to me, on so many levels.

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