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05/26/2008: "Indiana Jones movie upsets communists"

Members of Russia's Communist Party are calling for a nationwide boycott of the new Indiana Jones movie, saying it aims to undermine communist ideology and distort history.

"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.

It hit Russian screens Thursday.

Communist Party members in St. Petersburg said on a web site this week that the Soviet Union in 1957 "did not send terrorists to the States," but launched a satellite, "which evoked the admiration of the whole world."
Moscow Communist lawmaker Andrei Andreyev said Saturday "it is very disturbing if talented directors want to provoke a new Cold War."

[ Many thousands of movies, including Indiana Jones, have portrayed nazis in an offensive light, but we don't make that kind of fuss. These Communists are very sensitive. ]

http://edition.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/Movies/05/24/russia.indiana.jones.ap/index.html

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on Thursday, May 29th, Dental Plan said

"it is very disturbing if talented directors want to provoke a new Cold War."

I think that NATO expansion into Eastern Europe and Central Asia, coupled with Russia's defensive responses, are doing a fine job of reawakening the Reagan-era mentality. The Cold War didn't end in 1991.