The government has funded a number of patriotism-promoting pictures in recent years, not just focused on the Soviet war victory. The privately funded film has racked up almost 800,000 views on YouTubeT-34 has been viewed 1.5m times in cinemas.įilms require a permit for a cinematic release from the Russian ministry of culture, which has been known to reject or delay permits for projects deemed problematic, such as the British comedy The Death of Stalin, which was pulled at the last minute in 2018.
Sergei Boyarsky, a deputy in the State Duma, said the idea of the film was a “blasphemy and a shame” when it was reported in the Russian press last year. The YouTube page for Krasovskiy’s film includes a request for donations from viewers. Memories of the great patriotic war, as the conflict with Nazi Germany is known in Russia, have become a key tool in promoting patriotism during President Vladimir Putin’s long years in the Kremlin.Ĭriticism of the official heroic narrative of the war, in which an estimated 26m Soviet citizens died, are discouraged or silenced.Īlso released over the new year was The Holiday, a black comedy set during the siege of Leningrad, one of the war’s darkest periods.īut in contrast to T-34, which has been heavily trailed in state media, director Aleksey Krasovskiy decided to screen The Holiday exclusively on YouTube after officials condemned his project.
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