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Independent filmmaker Graham Phillips takes a close look at the BBC program “Russia with Simon Reeve”, revealing the degree of bias – and worse – beneath its benignly smiling exterior. Off-Guardian [embedded content] I remember watching a British documentary about Cuba a few years back which was presented nice looking middle class journalist. Well, surely he wouldn't lie, and so an unsuspecting public subliminally takes in the BBC propaganda without any thought? The first minute or so the filmmaker said what was good about Cuba, especially how every child gets a chance to learn ballet, because Fidel Castro loved ballet. But after that it just went into how authoritarian and run down Cuba was. The sanctions didn't help, said the filmmaker, but much of the blame can be put down to
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Independent filmmaker Graham Phillips takes a close look at the BBC program “Russia with Simon Reeve”, revealing the degree of bias – and worse – beneath its benignly smiling exterior. Off-GuardianIndependent filmmaker Graham Phillips takes a close look at the BBC program “Russia with Simon Reeve”, revealing the degree of bias – and worse – beneath its benignly smiling exterior. Off-Guardian [embedded content] I remember watching a British documentary about Cuba a few years back which was presented nice looking middle class journalist. Well, surely he wouldn't lie, and so an unsuspecting public subliminally takes in the BBC propaganda without any thought? The first minute or so the filmmaker said what was good about Cuba, especially how every child gets a chance to learn ballet, because Fidel Castro loved ballet. But after that it just went into how authoritarian and run down Cuba was. The sanctions didn't help, said the filmmaker, but much of the blame can be put down to
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I remember watching a British documentary about Cuba a few years back which was presented nice looking middle class journalist. Well, surely he wouldn't lie, and so an unsuspecting public subliminally takes in the BBC propaganda without any thought?
The first minute or so the filmmaker said what was good about Cuba, especially how every child gets a chance to learn ballet, because Fidel Castro loved ballet. But after that it just went into how authoritarian and run down Cuba was. The sanctions didn't help, said the filmmaker, but much of the blame can be put down to Fidel's communism, he added. No discussion of how Fidel Castro's first government had socialist, communist, and conservative party members in it and how the sanctions forced Cuba to go towards Russia for help. No mention of it colonial past as a slave state and how the Cubans had bravely fought to expel the evil imperialists who had terribly abused them and stole their resources; no mention of the constant threat to life of party members were under from US backed terrorist mercenaries; no mention of the ruthless ruling elite and US corporations who wanted to seize control of Cuba and turn it back into a slave state. It just said how bad communism was.
Yes, communism is not great, but was rule by imperialists worse? And would communism always eventually go back to democratic socialism and capitalism if there was no further threat from imperialism and exploitation by a few wealthy and often criminal elite? KV