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Russification in pop style

"How Russia bought and destroyed Ukrainian show business"

2024-03-31 uk 57m
Documentary
A documentary about how Russia has been using popular culture as a weapon against Ukraine for decades. Together with industry participants, the film's narrator, musician Albert Tsukrenko, explores the financial, political and psychological reasons for the vulnerability of Ukrainian artists and reflects on how to break this vicious circle. Unfortunately, our own Ukrainian talents are becoming the ammunition in this weapon. Several generations of original Ukrainian musicians at different times in the 1970s and 1980s, 1990s and 2000s, and 2010s switched from Ukrainian to Russian in their work. Whether willingly or unwittingly, they became tools of Russian show business, which has always sought to blur the cultural border between Russia and Ukraine and worked to promote the imperial myth of "one nation".

Author

Albert Tsukrenko

Director

Oleksii Muliavin

Author

Victoria Kurochka

Editor

Albert Tsukrenko

propaganda pop culture music

Status

Released

Countries

  • Ukraine

Companies

  • Suspilne Media

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