A thread on how Russia used cinema as a weapon of #Russiancolonialism and method of suppressing Ukrainians and dehumanizing 🇺🇦 heroes. Today we'll talk about how Russia mocked Ukrainian Liberation Movement in the movie "Wedding in Malinovka" ("Весілля в Малинівці")🧵
"Wedding in Malinovka" is one of the most popular Soviet movies and is even included into the so-called Gold Collection of Soviet Films. So it's a pretty big thing. The story is about a Ukrainian village during the Ukrainian Liberation Movement and Civil War in Russia. /2
Extremely short dive into history. 1917-1921 was a bloody period of the war for 🇺🇦 Independence against 🇷🇺. During this short period we had two independent internationally recognized 🇺🇦 states. The Ukrainian State led by Hetman Skoropadskyi lasted only for 8 months. /3
A thread on one of the most blatant anti-Ukrainian and #RussianColonialism moment in the history of Ukrainian art and cinematography of the Soviet era. The story will be about a great movie “Chasing Two Hares” (“За двома зайцями”) 🧵>
The movie is based on the eponymous play by Mykhailo Starytskyi, the prominent Ukrainian playwright who lived in 19th century Kyiv occupied by the Russian empire at that time. >
19th century is one of the most awful times for Ukrainian culture since it was the period of the most extreme Russification - the policy of cultural assimilation in which non-Russians were forced to give up their national language and culture in favor of the Russian. >