Indiana Jones and the Angry Communists
Members of the Russian Communist Party have demanded that the new Indiana Jones film to be banned in the country because they say it distorts history.
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, set during the Cold War, sees Harrison Ford’s character battle Cate Blanchett’s evil KGB agent.
Sergei Malinkovich, the rather paranoid chief of the St Petersburg Communist Party told Reuters that the film’s plot was “rubbish” and then went on, bizarrely, to claim that if the film is allowed Russian cinema goers might end up believing that the communists were running around with crystal skulls back in 1957.
Moscow Communist official Andrei Andreyev was being equally paranoid, claiming: “It is very disturbing if talented directors want to provoke a new Cold War.”
Sunday 25 May 2008 | Paul | Russia
