I'd imagine the only reason it was fictional was EVERYONE KNEW in Stalin's USSR that EVERYONE was a target if you got noticed to much, in the wrong area at the wrong time or just you were there. This film shows it extremely well that you just wanted to keep your fucking head down and be invisible if possible.
This is the polar opposite of modern leftists, it's ironically, anyone who has....survived a Communist regime understands completely.
This is 2 years old, but I just found out, and I haven't seen it referenced either.
In the USSR under Stalin, there was a story of a boy who turned in his own father. The difference is that this boy was fictional.
I'd imagine the only reason it was fictional was EVERYONE KNEW in Stalin's USSR that EVERYONE was a target if you got noticed to much, in the wrong area at the wrong time or just you were there. This film shows it extremely well that you just wanted to keep your fucking head down and be invisible if possible.
This is the polar opposite of modern leftists, it's ironically, anyone who has....survived a Communist regime understands completely.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavlik_Morozov