Victor’s father is portrayed as an undocumented immigrant who wrote about Stalin’s crimes but never published them, fearing persecution for himself and his family. The series is set in 1969, in Thailand. Stalin had died in 1953, and his successor, Khrushchev, immediately started a smear campaign against him. From that point until the end of the USSR, it doesn’t make sense to talk about persecution coming from Soviet institutions toward anyone who criticized Stalin.
After painting the USSR as horribly authoritarian, it presents the “democratic” USA as the solution. The same country that carried out a “witch hunt” against American communists (McCarthyism), crushed the Black Panthers and countless civil rights activists. On top of that, it was only in the mid-60s that the country formally ended racial segregation, and throughout the 60s and 70s it was backing dictatorships across Latin America and causing the deaths of millions in Vietnam.
At first it seems like some delusional trotskyist author wrote this, but once you connect the dots it actually feels like cheap anti-communist propaganda.
After painting the USSR as horribly authoritarian, it presents the “democratic” USA as the solution. The same country that carried out a “witch hunt” against American communists (McCarthyism), crushed the Black Panthers and countless civil rights activists. On top of that, it was only in the mid-60s that the country formally ended racial segregation, and throughout the 60s and 70s it was backing dictatorships across Latin America and causing the deaths of millions in Vietnam.
At first it seems like some delusional trotskyist author wrote this, but once you connect the dots it actually feels like cheap anti-communist propaganda.