My Perestroika (documentary)

[Psy]

I recently watched the documentary My Perestroika that followed a generation that became adults during the collapse of the USSR. The film skirts around making any kind of hard questions and instead simply follows these people around and lets them talk about the past yet they really don't have a firm grasp of what happened thus boils down to personal stories. For example a women talks how she got into fights with her mother over how Lenin was as bad a Stalin which she learned because they had access to western media (in other words western propaganda), the west says Lenin was bad so he must have been bad. Even the history teacher doesn't have any insight to what the USSR was, we see him explain collectivization of farmers as deprivation of property.

Yet it does show the clear need for a revolutionary party during the fall of the USSR as people really wanted change yet there was no organization to educate the masses of the USSR towards class consciousness.

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[tir1944]

Thanks,this seems interesting.
Growing up in the 90s sure wasn't nice...

[KurtFF8]

I saw this a while back and thought it didn't deviate much from the "look how people are better off now that they have freedom!" kind of propaganda for the most part.

[Diello]

We saw this in my Russian history class. I didn't think it was all that bad; the bias, for me, wasn't too strong to filter out (for the most part). It had some depressing moments.

[khad]

Yes, I can relate a perestroika story that one of the former members here told me from the steppes of Asia.

Perestroika was the first time his father saw mass starvation since the days of WW2.
Let that sink in.