Silver smokescreen. Russian film industry workers on censorship and wartime propaganda
For a long while, the Russian film industry coexisted with the government on the basis of a fragile consensus: studios signed lucrative government contracts for patriotic movies about the USSR in WWII and in space, made luscious biopics on Soviet celebrities for state-owned TV channels, and respected several taboos, avoiding such topics as LGBT, religion, and urgent political and social issues like the plague.