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Russian communists take a dig at Indiana Jones
Communist party members in St Petersburg on Fridaycondemned the new Indiana Jones film as crude anti-Soviet propaganda that distorted history and called for it to be banned from Russian screens.
- Reuters
- Published: 23:53 May 23, 2008
Moscow: Communist party members in St Petersburg on Friday condemned the new Indiana Jones film as crude anti-Soviet propaganda that distorted history and called for it to be banned from Russian screens.
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull stars Harrison Ford as an archaeologist in 1957 competing with an evil KGB agent, played by Cate Blanchett, to find a skull endowed with mystic powers.
"What galls is how together with America we defeated Hitler, and how we sympathised when Bin Laden hit them. But they go ahead and scare kids with (stories about) Communists. These people have no shame," said Viktor Perov, a communist party member in Russia's second city.
"Harrison Ford and Cate Blanchett (are) second-rate actors, serving as the running dogs of the CIA. We need to deprive these people of the right to enter the country," said Andrei Gindos, another communist.
"The film is low-quality and would raise a smile if there wasn't a danger of drawing into its orbit teenagers who know nothing about the 1950s," quipped Vladimir Mukhin.
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