Screening of Soviet films on February 23 caused a scandal in Ukraine
A scandal erupted in Ukraine over the announcement of a screening of Soviet films on February 23, which was planned by the Inter TV channel, owned by bosses from the former Party of Regions, who continue to exploit the nostalgic feelings of people of the older generation.
As the announcement says, this broadcast is dedicated to “all who remained devoted to their homeland.” Vigilant “patriots” saw the sedition - “Inter” hints that the Motherland may not be independent Ukraine, where the holiday of February 23 has long been cancelled.
“The Inter TV channel is obviously doing its job. This case, to put it mildly, does not meet the humanitarian and national security of Ukraine. This is a play on such pro-Soviet nostalgia. On the other hand, we know that the Russian Federation declared itself the heir of the Soviet Union, that is, there is already some kind of double nostalgia,” Bohdan Korolenko, a researcher at the Ukrainian Institute of National Memory, said in an interview with Channel 5.
Lawyer Ali Safarov called for Inter to be banned from broadcasting Soviet films, otherwise it will be too late and there will be a “public danger.”
“I already see information in the announcement that justifies the communist regime of 17-91. There must be a reaction from the authorized government body to such a violation. Other media experts believe that the broadcast itself should come first, but it seems to me that then it will be a little late, because the public danger from such a broadcast will already come,” Safarov said.
Let us recall that during the Euromaidan, Inter, which at first did not support the unrest in Kyiv, changed its information policy overnight and began calling the radicals “protesters” and the coup a “revolution of dignity.”
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