Propaganda under a beautiful wrapper A year ago, watching this series, I did not notice anti-Soviet propaganda. And although my attitude towards the USSR has always been very good, as a teenager, my favorite songs were Soviet, after watching this series I had a oppressive impression of the USSR as a terrible totalitarian country that does not allow people to live quietly. Actually, all the obstacles of the main characters on the way to their happiness are due to the system of this country. After the revolution, after the Great Patriotic War, the heroes now and then come across the barbaric destruction of the owners, then on thoroughly corrupt or concerned officials.
The USSR is shown as a cruel country, and there are no alternatives to the characters shown to state structures. I have a question for the creators: what kind of country did they show? This is not the USSR, it shows something mythical, wretched, perhaps Nazi Germany, but not the USSR.
The series shows the story of Romeo and Juliet, changed in a different way: there is a couple who could be together, and there is one who could not. Of course, the last couple lived in the terrible Soviet Union, where the state prevented them from building their happiness. I think the storyline was also based on different attitudes towards parents. 'Unhappy' their couple listened unquestioningly in everything, including the parental disagreement with marriage. The second couple, living in ' free and democratic' country, absolutely spit on parental opinion and prohibitions, meets in spite of them and even runs away from home, because their ' great love' will overcome everything, even elementary respect for parents. Thus, you can see in what light a particular country is shown. I want to note that it was in 'free and democratic' the country that the first couple (Nadia and Vlas) reunited.
4 out of 10