The Death Of Stalinism In Bohemia By Jan Svankmajer

[Hexen]

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Anyway, I've been wondering if this film is strictly anti-stalinist (as the title suggests) or is it slamming the entire concept of "communism" all together? I heard this was aired on the BBC so that isn't a good sign.

Also for Jan Svankmajer himself, although I enjoyed his other stop motion works he did but I've been wondering about this man's political stance since I remember reading his interviews that he didn't like both capitalism and communism or something like that.

Any opinions or thoughts regarding this?

[TheGodlessUtopian]

I have no idea what I just watched, not at all what I was expecting.

[Stalin Ate My Homework]

Liberal media: 'Stalinism' = Communism

[Omsk]

Before we jump to any conclusions,"Bohemia"s leaders were often criticized by Nikita for being "Living examples of Stalin" ,especially Novotny, Antonín."Bohemia" also had an Marxist-Leninist (ie against revisionism and reformism) past (up to a certain point),and was one of the countries loyal to the USSR [for the better part of existance]


If you want to understand this little cartoon you need to know more than enough about the history of the state,and its leaders (Klement Gottwald,for example) However,the artist implies that "Bohemia" was "Stalinist" and stayed "Stalinist" during its existance [Marxist-Leninist from the leftist point of view] which is simply not true.

It is safe to say that the movie is largely anti-communist.

[Hexen]

Sorry I have to Necro this old thread of mine but I've stumbled across this video by Jan Svanksmajer himself who made the "Death of Stalinism of Bohemia" short about how repression was really like when Czechoslovakia was a Soviet Satellite State


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09J9alQS8CY

So what can anyone make out of this and any insight at all?