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In the Hockey Documentary ‘Red Penguins,’ American Exceptionalism Gets Put on Ice
This breezy, ‘30 for 30’-like film recounts how U.S. investors tried to profit off a rebrand of the former Soviet Union’s championship team. But the movie mostly just demonstrates the limits of capitalism and arrogance.
‘Welcome to Chechnya’ Spotlights an LGBTQ Genocide — And the Brave Activists Trying to Stop It
Documentarian David France was embedded in the Russian republic for nearly two years chronicling the underground railroad of volunteers risking their lives to rescue Chechnya’s queer victims
Bugs Bunny Was a Communist This Whole Time
Memes linking the cartoon icon to the U.S.S.R. lead down a curious rabbit-hole
How the Fake Lesbians of t.A.T.u. Changed Queerness in Russia Forever
The ‘All the Things She Said’ generation is now grown up, sparking a cultural shift in their anti-gay nation. Does it matter that t.A.T.u. were never the real deal?
