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Title: Gulag gets it right!
Review: I can't believe the reviewer from East Asia. Somehow he/she missed the point. The point was to depict what was going on in the Soviet Union at a time Soviet revisionists in the West were writing that the Soviet system was strong, viable, and was transforming into some sort of Euro-style socialist democracy. Nothing could be further from the truth. Even the CIA missed the boat on what really was going on (read Walter Laquer's book on the fall of the Soviet Union). Without the character played by the American, there would have been no story. The movie was contrasting the spirit of American "can do" with Russian fatalism. I suspect the reviewer from East Asia has some affinity for either socialism or communism and this is his real objection to the moview. Great movie! (read the new Applebaum book on the Gulag system.....). Lavrentiy Larenchencko
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