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As I listened it didn’t seem much different than American Millennial’s. As a Senior I’m familiar with the contrasts between Us and the Soviet Union during the Cold War. If I wasn’t aware that it was a documentary about Putin’s Russia, it would sound like Trump’s America. Just the fact that it was filmed in Russia is a big change from the Soviet Union during the Cold War. Naturally there are greater freedoms in America thanks to our Constitution Bill of Rights. However I wonder whether today’s Millennials feel that way. As a 70 year old it would be foolish for me to presume to know what today’s younger generation’s are feeling. Just as it’s foolish to say that a documentary truly speaks for Generation Putin. I’m curious whether our Millennials can identify with Generation Putin.

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👍︎︎ 144 👤︎︎ u/johnn48 📅︎︎ Aug 24 2020 🗫︎ replies

Free enough to see freedom, not free enough to live it

👍︎︎ 31 👤︎︎ u/IfonlyIwasfunnier 📅︎︎ Aug 24 2020 🗫︎ replies

didn't know the kid from stranger thing was russian Oo

👍︎︎ 55 👤︎︎ u/BelleGueuIe 📅︎︎ Aug 24 2020 🗫︎ replies

A really interesting set of interviews. The redhead, Polina, I found especially compelling, particularly the clips from 9:17-11:40 and 23:56-25:20.

I did feel there was some selective editing, for example at 5:00 she clearly says, ‘in the second, they probably reuse components from atomic bombs.’ At 16:15, Andrey says ‘people consider Russia to be lagging in this regard’ rather than ‘backward’ - then the clip seems to jump and I could be mistaken, it’s really hard to make out, but I don’t hear him say ‘a mighty state like Russia,’ just something like ‘the deterioration of a country is enabled by ... the development of their country’.

I wish they had explored Andrey’s story more. I’m surprised they didn’t think to ask him about the tenets of Kudo and how they relate to his political views. I don’t know much about martial arts or eastern philosophy but here are the rules posted at every Kudo dojo, according to Wiki:

Through the pursuit of Kudo, we develop great physical and mental strength, educate ourselves and gain intelligence, and bond with people and enrich our emotions. Therefore, we shall be able to cultivate our personalities and become positively contributing members of society.

👍︎︎ 9 👤︎︎ u/odikhmantievich 📅︎︎ Aug 24 2020 🗫︎ replies

Hi I just came here to say the thumbnail girl looks like a young, attractive, Susan Boyle.

👍︎︎ 8 👤︎︎ u/[deleted] 📅︎︎ Aug 24 2020 🗫︎ replies

I would be careful watching this. Its made by Deutsche Welle and the german media and goverment are very anti-russian. Sometimes justified and sometimes dont.

👍︎︎ 2 👤︎︎ u/[deleted] 📅︎︎ Aug 24 2020 🗫︎ replies

Ruthless, armed with the right knowledge, ambitious and facing a "friend" in the form of fat, lazy and unwilling American millennials. I'm pretty sure they won the spy war already

👍︎︎ 1 👤︎︎ u/lunarman52 📅︎︎ Aug 24 2020 🗫︎ replies
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My name is Polina and I was born on December 31st, 1999 in the Krasnoyarsk region. I like the fact that I was born on a special day. I’m eighteen - Putin has been in power for 18 years. I went to school - he was there. I finished school - he was there. He’s been there an eternity. Our President Vladimir Vladimirovich has helped the country to believe that we’re not just a leftover but a worthy successor to the Soviet Union, a worthy successor to the Russian Empire, a worthy representative of the Russian spirit, which has always distinguished our nation from other nations. My name is Andrey Nasyrov, I’m a student in the Faculty of Journalism at the Moscow Polytechnic University. My name is Kamilla, I’m in the 11th grade. I’m interested in politics and activism. In our country you can die from everything that’s going on. Everything has been destroyed - from the economy to the benches outside residential buildings. For me, Putin and his gang are to blame. Everyone calls them that, because they’re a gang of crooks who have taken power. They divide up the money however they want. They’re involved in killings. They’re a criminal organization who use threats, murder and forgery to take over companies and put people in prison. They’re not just kleptomaniacs, they are real criminals. Events take place here that haven’t been officially approved, organized by the opposition politician Alexei Navalny. He’s well-known from his revelations about corruption in Russia. Last time it was demonstration against the raising of the retirement age. I went with my friends. We pushed forward towards the police taking the barriers with us. We were in the second row. There was a terrible commotion. There was a brutal fight with the police. Of course, I was really afraid. I don’t know if I’ll do it again. If I’ll have the courage to. Our society is very conservative. We still live with many patterns left over from the Soviet era. My mother builds satellites, my father recycles atom bombs. There are two factories in our city. In one they build satellites, in the other they recycle the insides of atom bombs. I didn’t bring it with me specially, it’s always in my backpack. My pass for the city, everyone has one. My home town is fenced round with barbed wire. I’ve often crawled through it where there were holes. The last time, the police caught me. There are checkpoints at the entrances. It’s not a city. It’s what’s called a closed autonomous area. And it’s all surrounded by a barbed wire fence. My name is Taya, I’m 18 years old, born on December 31st 1999. My name is Egor, also born on December 31, 1999. We’re twins. Our generation doesn’t know how life could be any different. We’ve lived our entire lives under Putin. It’s hard when you have nothing to compare it with. What else can we do? Either protest or emigrate. Yes, exactly. I don’t feel much like living in this country. -Me either. -At least under Putin. With his followers he’s built up a system of corruption. He’s been sitting up there so long, there’s not much you can change. We don’t have a democracy, we have a monarchy. An important goal in my life - it’s actually a dream of mine - is not to remain just some insignificant person in history, but to be remembered. There are lots of different routes, just see one and take it. Like Napoleon said, it is better not to live, than to leave behind no legacy. You don’t have to be like Hitler and Napoleon, who left the world in a bloodbath. You should be like Vladimir Vladimirovich, who fights for peace and is prepared to do everything to achieve it. He says: “We’ll find them at the airport or wherever and kill them. We will totally annihilate evil." His character has helped the president to make it possible for Russia not only to get up off its knees, but to gather courage. And he’s shown there is an opposing pole, which can determine the conditions for maintaining the world order. I don’t like anything in my home town. I don‘t see anything that makes me feel good about it. What makes me different from my parents? I don’t know. I believe the most important thing is freedom of thought. My parents lived in a time when they were told what to think. They tried to bring everyone down to the same level. You’re wrong there, Polina. You’re right, we were told what to think and say. But there were kitchens where people sat, and thought about things and discussed everything. Yes, but you still believe that women have no place in politics and that homosexuals are sick and need to be healed. I don’t have those prejudices. My parents watch the news on television and not on the internet. They don’t have the same access to freedom of opinion that I have, because they’re not interested in that. It’s true, in those days I didn’t know any other opinions in our closed city. I was happy to have been born in the Soviet Union, to belong to the Pioneers, to live in such a good town. We lived with a secure feeling about the future. I go to an English high school. My favorite subjects are English and German. I want to be a translator. It’s a profession you can pursue in different directions. I’ve been to Austria, once to France and to Finland as well. For me the most interesting trip was to Austria. We had an exchange program at school. The kids our age seemed to be more grown-up there. That’s because of the mentality. You can’t say that about us. I felt they were more responsible than us. I finished ninth grade and went to a vocational school. I’m training to be a cook. The course takes three years. Then I’ll be called up to do my military service. I don’t feel like doing it, but I’ll have to. When I leave the army, I’ll have to see what exactly I do then. We cut the onions lengthwise. Cut them lengthwise. Stop. OK. This is how we cut them. I’m not going to school at the moment, I’ve started having lessons at home. Over the years I’ve had a lot of stressful situations at school. Even at the end there was a conflict with my schoolmates. For some years now I’ve been bullied at school. But in some ways it’s my own fault. First I worked for Navalny as a volunteer. Not everybody was okd with that. Then some didn’t like the photos I posted. Our last argument was ridiculous. We fell out over the use of gender-specific job-titles. I’m being bullied, because I’m the bulliable type. Our society is a nation of harassed and insecure people. That’s a historical development from the Soviet era after all that repression. The people were exterminated, shot, left to starve. And after that we all became so insecure. We're afraid to say anything. We respect neither ourselves nor others. What is our research about? Trying to understand what prevents our journalists from establishing an information policy that creates an intellectual atmosphere which promotes innovation. Not because Putin demands innovation. Incidentally, Putin is in this regard very pessimistic. Nasyrov, why do we have to become an innovative society? Many states are already post-industrial societies, and unfortunately people regard Russia as backward in this respect, which I don't agree with. A mighty state like Russia could be destroyed if the young generation aren’t interested in the development of the country. It’s ruined if its history is destroyed, if the young generation have the wrong ideals and views. Which to some extent we see around us today. It‘s good you see that. Yes. The main enemy of our liberals are the Americans. America only wants one thing: that we die, simply bite the dust and fall apart into twenty separate countries. Or even better, fifty countries, so that all that’s left of Russia is a geographical name. I don’t want that, and I don’t want you to want it either. I don’t want that. Nothing good will come of it. You can see that from the situation with Georgia and Ukraine, where you have fascists, nationalists and idiots running around with guns. Understood, Nasyrov? I’m interested in lots of things; journalism, political activism, art. That’s a poster for the memorial march for Nemtsov, the opposition leader who was murdered four years ago in front of the Kremlin. I had the idea of comparing my childhood with the childhoods of my grandmother and my mother. My grandmother’s childhood fell in the time of what’s called the Thaw. That was a period after the death of Stalin, when Khrushchev came to power and repression gave way to a milder regime. Stalin’s personality cult was debunked. Life became easier. My mother’s childhood fell in the time of Perestroika and the 90s - that means democracy, freedom. I asked her what she had felt in those days. She said: the air smelled of freedom. My childhood is in a lull. A political lull. Nothing is clear at the international level either, no prospects. Here is the list of events that occurred in my childhood: terrorist attacks, political repression, the murder of homosexuals in Chechnya. I believe our government acted wrongly in many cases. In my opinion, Putin is also behind the murder of Nemtsov. The killers and the one who gave the order can be traced back to Chechnya. It’s highly likely that there was a secret order from Putin. For me, that’s what the Putin regime is like. They chanted: “Putin is a thief!“ I went to the Navalny demo on Putin’s birthday. That’s me with my friend. I’m against Putin’s policies, that was the reason. It was my first demonstration. I wanted to experience the atmosphere. At school they forbid us to attend such events. Even when you’re eighteen and want to defend your rights as a citizen. You don’t want Putin to be president, you like Navalny. You want to go to the demo, to help. But at school you have to sign a piece of paper saying that you won’t attend such rallies. Good luck. Call me, OK? I can’t. Call me. Don’t expect me to call. I didn’t move to Moscow only for the great educational opportunities here. The best thing about being here is that nobody cares about me. No one interferes in my life. Do you think we need the pumps? You need a round glass flask. I’m a student at the First Medical University. The subject is called medical biochemistry. My degree certificate will say ‘Physician for Biochemistry’. I plan to go into the sciences, that’s where I see my fulfilment. My parents pay for the student dormitory. I share this with two other students. The bed is my entire living space. The table next to it serves as a shelf. The suitcase on the floor takes the place of a bookcase. It’s jam packed full of books that I can’t store anywhere else. I sleep in bed, eat in bed, study, read, play the guitar. I do everything here, in these two square meters. In Russia there are many who are disadvantaged. Women’s interests aren’t respected, the rights of homosexuals are infringed. Of course, I want to contribute to ending all discrimination so that everyone has equal rights, and we can all live in one big utopia. But I’m not going to stand around here holding a rainbow flag, because I know I’d be beaten to death. Today I’ve come for the memorial march for Nemtsov. That’s very important for me. I couldn’t imagine that in the 21st century, in a democratic country there could be a political contract killing. I thought it was impossible. As a politician Nemtsov had millions of followers. A wonderful poster! I didn’t get your head. No, that was bad. This is better. What a wonderful poster! Do you have classmates who think like you? Yes, a few. But they’re not here? Probably not. I welcome the contestants and guests to the Russian Kudo Championship. We will now hear the Russian national anthem. Please get ready: Andrey Nasyrov. I lost. I must have had the wrong mindset. I couldn’t control my emotions. Funny if it doesn’t cover the old color. Funny and tragic. Then we’d have to dye it black. -Or shave it all off. -I’ve been through that. I’m not going to the graduation dance bald. I didn’t have a plan for the graduation dance, because I didn’t know what sort of dress would suit me. So annoying. And then I decided to go back to my natural color, and take out the piercing. You’ve become more grown-up. More grown-up? I don’t know about that. The exhibition is about mother-daughter relationships. I had more problems with my father: I was never good enough, and probably never will be. That really depresses me. It’s hard for me to love myself, and feel that I‘m good enough, that I don’t have to prove anything to anyone. This is what they say about us: "This generation is hopeless, the girls have lost their morals." Everything about us is bad. We’re calculating. We only want men’s money. We’re just hoping for some mythical man, with a huge fortune. They see us as dolls, who can’t do anything right. I don’t seek my way as a woman. I seek self-fulfilment as a human being, as an individual. I’ve found my way in life. I’m regarded as gifted. The people I work with say I will go far. We begin the ceremony with the presentation of certificates to the 2018 high school graduates. A symbolic bell, which marks not the beginning of the lesson, but the end of school. This graduation certificate is for Cheredeyeva Taissia. I wish you success in everything you do. Peter the Great and Catherine the Great. Let’s welcome the tsar and the empress as they open the ceremony. You can’t fit much meat in there. No, we fill it with buckwheat. I’m now in my third year of training, in the last semester. At the moment I’m doing an internship. Soon there’ll be the cooking exam and the final assignment at the school. For my final assignment I’ve chosen the dish ‘suckling pig’. It’s a festive dish that used to be served to the tsars. I chose suckling pig because I thought it sounded awesome to have ‘suckling pig’ in my diploma as my demonstration dish. You can baste the top. Put it under the head to stop the head from coming off. Lift it up and lay it under the head. That’s good. My boss is great. He explains and shows us everything properly. I’ll probably work here later. I want to graduate from university, do my national service in the army and fulfill my duty to my homeland. After that I might work as a military correspondent, reporting about what no one can see. I might get a commission in the armed forces or the secret service, if I’m declared fit for service. Or I’ll go into politics. A year ago Taya and I were active in the Navalny movement. We tried to support him wherever we could, on his staff, we signed up as election monitors. Now we’ve distanced ourselves more, participate less. Take freedom of speech, for example. Here they put you in prison for a shared post, for something you say online. They passed a law making it illegal -the state? -to insult the state. It applies to statements they don’t like. -It’s against the constitution. -Yes. Where freedom of speech is concerned -- if you’re openly critical of the state, they can now put you behind bars. We have no civil society, it hasn’t been established yet. Why was there such a decline after Perestroika? It happened because the most active people were at that point in time burned out. And those who still had the energy went abroad. Those who were burned out stayed, and the others left. And that’s how it happened that control over the situation was lost. It’s a demo for the admission of opposition candidates to Moscow City Council. All independent candidates have been barred from standing for election. My generation is free. It’s freer than our parents’ generation, so they try to discourage us, to intimidate us, they threaten us at school, because we’re freer than our parents, and therefore more of a threat to the powers that be.
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Channel: DW Documentary
Views: 954,469
Rating: 4.5481677 out of 5
Keywords: Documentary, Documentaries, documentaries, DW documentary, full documentary, DW, documentary 2020, Russia, Putin, millennials, freedom of speech, authoritarianism, russian opposition, opposition, Vladimir Putin, Russian, Navalny, Jeltsin
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Length: 42min 26sec (2546 seconds)
Published: Sun Aug 23 2020
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