How Russian Action Movies Are Selling War – The New York Times

How Russian Action Movies Are Selling War

How Russian Action Movies Are Selling War

For an American, it can be easy to forget how much ideology is packed into the genre — until you watch a film from elsewhere, and see their cartoonish heroes and villains.

Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/12/magazine/russian-action-movies.html

Another is that “Granit” was just one artifact in a whole trove of content — memoirs, comic books, travel videos — that is variously referred to as the Wagner subculture, the Wagnerverse or the Wagner Extended Universe. Not unlike old American mercenary magazines, all of it puts a righteous and alluring face on going off to kill and die in unofficial operations aligned with Kremlin interests

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