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 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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