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Documentary opens Friday

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http://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/nhl/red-army-interview-director-gabe-polsky-slava-fetisov-russian-five-review-alex-ovechkin-documentary-oscars/


 
Sounds like another horrible propaganda film.
Why can't they just show a respectable documentary of the greatest hockey teams? (Like they often do of various nhl dynasties(?)

Ooh those terrible mistreated players, it was all about war and evil communism and fighting the Americans etc..
That's only true from the US perspective. truly shameful and disgusting trailer.

Turn one of the pride of Soviet history and turn it directly against us. well done
 
And the sad thing is that the shmuck apparently feels, like I do, that the Soviet style of play was superior to watch. And it's a shame that the nhl is not much like it today. Some of his writing about the '87 Canada Cup etc... could have been taken straight out of one of my posts.

He even mentioned Kane as I did, in terms of North Americans players most creative and interesting to watch, because he has that quality. Its like that quality of Larionov, everytime he gets the puck you don't know whats gonna happen but it will be creative and unexpected.

So my question is if you respect the players and the play and those who made it possible, what is it that you think you accomplish by pushing this "KGB, dictator, sub human, defector, evil system angle"?

Do you feel you're being respectful to them by disparaging their country, their childhood, their hockey community?

And it's always this foking Fetisov they keep bringing up. Apparently he's willing to go along with the "evil Soviet" narrative.

"When I was editing, there were a lot of guys I interviewed that I would’ve liked to see in the film, but they didn’t fit the story. I had to keep cutting the fat off. Guys like Pavel Bure and Valeri Kamensky."

yeah, I bet Kammensky told him what he can do with his narrative, so it didn't fit the story.
 
reno cool
So my question is if you respect the players and the play and those who made it possible, what is it that you think you accomplish by pushing this "KGB, dictator, sub human, defector, evil system angle"?

Do you feel you're being respectful to them by disparaging their country, their childhood, their hockey community?
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I'm not pushing this "KGB, dictator, sub human, defector, evil system angle" at all and I'm not disparaging their country, their childhood, their hockey community.
 
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Really fucking busy these days, buddy. Reno, do you think I dislike Russian hockey players? I thought you knew better.
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no, of course not. But remember hockey players are also a product of their environment. A movie like this should be celebration of hockey, and I would love to see a movie about the history of Soviet hockey.

But no program can see the light of day in the West about Russia, if it doesn't make a focal point of disparaging someone. God forbid somebody may think good of the Soviet Union.

Why take this perspective?
 
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I don't like Alex O but its because he's really overrated and not because he's Russian.
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I became a fan this year. I went to an Avalanche game with Washington and watched the warm up. I liked the way he handled himself. Everybody was skating and taking shots. He was hanging around, stretching, no helmet. Then he would appear and start making these superb passes to his teammates, no shots.

I was like whoa! He's not just a shooter he really has a good sense, though you don't really see that in game.
 
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