Independent filmmakers do not simply rock up in occupied Ukraine to spend months filming Russian troops “unauthorized.” 
25 years of the Putin regime and still people do not get that there is no freedom of speech in Russia. There is no journalistic establishment. There is no spirit of open inquiry. There is just the state and state control.
Maybe it’s a brilliant film. I don’t know. I haven’t seen it. But it’s been made in collaboration with the Russian state. Inexcusable that Canadian organizations should be funding it.
It’s also totally nuts that some Canadian public organizations are in the throes of obsessively attempting to deconstruct their own relationships with power in the name of decolonization while totally ignoring how they portray Russia
Guys, all that settler-colonial stuff? All those land acknowledgments? Those cultural awareness training sessions? The historical mea culpas?
Use the same thinking on Russia and you’ll be closer to the mark.
Use the same thinking on Russia and you’ll be closer to the mark.
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