Saturday, May 24, 2008

Communist Party vs Indiana Jones

It seems that Russia's Communist Party today urged Russians to boycott the new "Indiana Jones" movie, claiming it unfairly undermines communist ideology:

"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. Harrison Ford returns as Indiana Jones in "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull."
"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."

Heh. Right. They didn't send "terrorists" to the United States.
Rather, they sent them to places like Hungary, and Czechoslovakia, and Cuba...
And as a result hundreds of thousands of people died.