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   Rasmus Fleischer (rasmusfleischer@tldr.nettime.org)'s status on Thursday, 29-Dec-2022 00:15:49 JST Rasmus Fleischer

   I really appreciate watching Adam Curtis' documentary Traumazone. So much strong material speaking for itself.

   But there is one deeply disturbing thing, namely the subtitle: "Russia 1985–1999".
   It's very misleading, because #Traumazone is only partly a story about Russia.
   A large part of the time (maybe 1/3) is spent telling parallel post-war histories about Kazakstan, Ukraine, etc. Countries which are NOT parts of Russia.

   In effect, the framing serves to normalize Russian colonialism. Even though much of the content works in the opposite direction.

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     Rasmus Fleischer (rasmusfleischer@tldr.nettime.org)'s status on Thursday, 29-Dec-2022 00:41:59 JST Rasmus Fleischer

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     I mean post-Soviet histories, not post-war.
     But that also includes one very strong pre-war history; the one about how Russia started the first Chechen war. It is a very timely and very sad remider.