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This is an ambiguous Soviet past

November 20, 2020 Sergey Mitrofanov

On all fronts, Russia is fighting with a distortion of its historical past in order to freely distort it towards veneration of the authorities of almost all periods. We got used to it and reconciled, because in our professional circle we still continue to think and say, as if nothing of this. The main thing is not to meet with a crowd of Banderalogs and observe safety rules, never say “I think”, but always “there is an opinion”. But Banderalogs do not stop and from time to time throw another historical disgrace into the public field, so that, as a live bait, to catch a liberal.

The last such “disgrace” is the series “Bomb”.

We will not make a melodrama from the past melodrama and the adventure in the style of Marvel and Netflix - it is quite normal for modern serial cinema. Moreover, the Soviet past is rich in images. Here you are the bonds in retro-races, and the layman, enjoying the vulgar stage, and a terrible fairy tale about the gulag, and funnels at night, and winning motives, and if desired, everyone can choose their own version of historical truth.

But Marvel is a comic book, and Bomb is reconstruction. A critical contemporary will be recorded on the middle part of the film, where the convicts are raffering down the mud, however, mostly thieves-appropriate, and it is shown how the regime throws people into the furnace of their creative task, and the patriot in the final: but they achieved their own, saved the country from the Americans, made an excellent peaceful bomb! And Beria oh how good it is not at all like a Caucasian (artist Vitaly Kovalenko), but such a human European and a wonderful organizer, today there would be more of them. Terrible, of course, but it was impossible otherwise!

If desired, you can read the finale in different ways.

They worked, worked and developed. They blew up their anti -American piece, and the sky from the ashes (the day before was red sunset, and now hellish darkness), the temperature from artificial solar eclipse decreased, but everyone is waving, hugging, rejoicing - the Apocalypse, and the only house for the “people of the Soviet peaceful future” built in the film - so far just a mulse, which, as a result, was burned out.

It is said that real people live in dugouts and eat a swan. But they are promised that after the bomb they will build such houses as one that burned out. And the fact that in this dummy house the depressive creator of the bomb Mikhail Rubin also burned out - not only tragedy, but the essence of the manifestation of hopeless optimism, because then he will meet on a cloud (a little religion) with his beloved, which was absorbed by the Berievsky concentration camp. And this is symbolic. Joyful. And the “scientists” on the final credits confidently repeat: intelligence reported that the Americans were preparing to destroy the USSR, and we were saved like. That's all here - choose! If you want, worry about people, but if you want, so be delighted with a superpower.

Objectively, however, this is a vulgar and deceitful movie that is unpleasant to watch. The love triangle was taken from the “nine days of one year”, the scene was late for the roll call in the camp whistled from the “station for two”, an agreement with Beria: make a bomb, then I will give a beloved-also some vulgar a tan. The main character, the brilliant physicist Rubin, artist Yevgeny Tkachuk, who first plays “nine days of one year”, and then, inextricably in time, “Station for two” is an unpleasant overkill. The phrase, said in 48 by the mother-in-law of another famous physicist: “Today is not the 37th year,” testifies to the complete misunderstanding of the realities by the authors of the film, if not a conscious subservation.

Indeed, for the real people of the real Soviet past, no division into “37th year” and “not 37th year” existed. In the USSR, people either did not know anything about the “37th year” and could not say such a phrase, or for them everything was one large “37th year”. I myself learned about the “37th year”, only after reading the “Khrushchev’s secret report” in Samizdat, and the senior dissidents laughed at the same time: “37th year” is when they crushed bureaucracy and noble commies, and always crumbled ordinary people in the USSR, not counting. All the years of Soviet power until the death of Stalin.

The scene, as the Danish scientist Niels Bor is trying to convey secret information about the bomb-exaggeration for the sake of drama and unpleasantly sucked out of the finger.

Bor, perhaps, was a left -handed, and fought for peace, and stood for parity, believing that only the parity of the armed villains would protect the world from the war, but not an idiot and a traitor scattering secrets. Moreover, he would hardly have armed a dangerous enemy threatening to burn his danish feeding ducks in a world fire. This is a distortion of history, so distortion!

But the most unpleasant thing is that the series is in many ways right, and the Soviet “scientists”, perhaps, were thoughtlessly thoughtlessly about their work and duty in Soviet times, and this is a tragedy. Although, on the other hand, Peter Kapitsa refused to make a bomb, although Sakharov, although he had done her, then he repented his whole life and paid. In any case, from the height of the present, some more philosophical attitude towards this is required. Which, of course, is not here.

Still, the Americans began to make a bomb during the most destructive war in the history of human civilization and tested it (which is also not good) on an aggressive enemy, and the Soviet ones-after the war, when they had already created the UN and adopted a declaration of human rights. For what? It is incomprehensible. Maybe the Soviet physicists were especially worried that the weapons were given the weapons in the hands of Stalin-Beria’s criminal clique, but we can hardly ignore these issues ... The attitude of the scientist Rubin to the fact that he was sitting in the camp, his beloved was raped there and now, and now he, metaphorically speaking, is building the towers of the towers, not clarified.

It is curious: about what the Americans planned after a great exhausting war supposedly to start a new (why?!) - and this is a motive, an excuse for the “scientist pure Soviet knowledge” - they did not even say under the Communists, with Brezhnev, and today - for a sweet soul. “Experts” on the credits told us about all this, so that God forbid, we do not understand the series somehow vice versa. And in parallel in the news - about new weapons.

In this sense, the series “Bomb”, of course, is the extremely cognitive artifact of the present. Real revenge descending to hell.

Director Igor Kopylov. Cast: Evgeny Tkachuk, Evgenia Brik (Hirivskaya), Viktor Dobronravov, Olga Smirnova, Mikhail Khmurov, Andrei Smelov, Natalya Surkova, Alexander Lykov, Vitaliy Kovalenko, Victor Rakov, Vladimir Bogdanov, Aglaya Tarasova, Gennady Vrypaev, Eduard Fleurov, Ivan Batarev Balakirev, Konstantin Balakirev, Konstantin Balakirev, Konstantin Balakirev, Konstantin Balakirev, Konstantin Balakirev, Konstantin Balakirev, Konstantin Balakirev, Konstantin Balakirev, Konstantin Balakirev, Larisa Domaskin.

Poster and shots from the film: the site "Kinopoisk"/ kinopoisk.ru