My Perestroika

documentary

Interesting but ultimately severely limited account of the changes that happened in Russia because of the collapse of the Soviet Union. We focus on a few individuals which I suppose is a legitimate tactic but the real story was immense in scope, profound in its implications and its effect on the course of world history and this film scratched timidly on the surface of a tiny bit of it.

While these people were sort of interesting they couldn't begin to satisfy someone curious about how this societal implosion affected those caught up in its tsunami. This would have had value as one episode of a 100 part series but as a stand-alone it was worthless.

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