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My Friend, Stalin’s Daughter (2014)

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Re: My Friend, Stalin’s Daughter (2014)

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Post by usrusr »

ClapperHeid wrote: post #39
usrusr wrote: post #34

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Exactly my thoughts, going back to the paper-age pattern of reading only that one publication or two that you subscribe to isn't a customer experience that feels like money well spent now that we have been spoilt by two decades of everything available via ads. We absolutely should find a way of returning to paying about as much of our income for news as we did before (and not indirectly via ads), but those big fat on…

>Writers need paid... The thing is that so little of what you read in various online news sources was actually "written" by reporters in the classical sense of the man in the beige raincoat with a "Press" ticket in his hat-band, frntically scribbling shorthand in a notebook, before phoning in his story. The vast, vast majority of news articles concerning national and international news are pretty much copy/pasted fro…

And those seem to be the ones struggling the hardest with ad-funding, at least that's what my sample suggests: full of bottom-level outbrain-level shit because their "natural" ad market (local stuff) is all gobbled up by map platforms (well, usually exactly one map platform) and the occasional "still advertises on Facebook". If being a subscriber to the local publication would take care of transparent microtransaction guest access to most of the stuff you find linked I the wide web it would be a no-brainer to subscribe.

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Post by IngvarLynn »

cm2187 wrote: post #26
rasz wrote: post #25

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The Death of Stalin (2017) is great, and wont bore younger audience.

Agree, but highly unrealistic (and barely covers Stalin).

The whole point of the movie is to show that part of soviet union that is not covered by historical facts. So most of it is a fiction but a very realistic one and intentionally so.

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Post by therealdrag0 »

avhception wrote: post #32
therealdrag0 wrote: post #8

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Writers need paid. Do you prefer paywalls or ads? There doesn’t seem to be consensus ;)

If there was a simple "pay 10c to read" button, I'd click that. If there was a subscription that I could have that would give me ad-free access to all the random news articles that get shared with me, I'd buy that (at a reasonable price, that is). But there isn't. Subscribing to 283894 newspapers isn't an option. Dear Newspapers, please accept the new reality. The days of people subscribing to exactly one newspaper d…

I sympathize with that. Reminds me of Braves “attention token” wasn’t it trying to solve a similar problem in a similar way as you suggest?

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Post by bee_rider »

euroderf wrote: post #35
rasz wrote: post #24

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There seems to be a common theme to those. When Ceausescu visited NY he and his stupid wife (huge scientific fraud story on its own, including lot of reputable western universities going along with it) were sure Macy was just a show stocked specifically for them. I seem to remember him reacting by ordering to open a store just for show to western dignitaries/press. https://www.nytimes.com/1970/10/22/archives/ceausesc…

I've read a longer story that that grocery visit gave Yeltsin quite a eureka moment.

He’d been shifting in the direction of liberal reform for a while. I’m sure he was happy to (over)emphasize the degree to which he was shocked.

Not to cast doubt on his overall goal there, liberal economics clearly are pretty dang effective!

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Post by kranke155 »

bmitc wrote: post #37

What an incredibly interesting read. I'm gonna have to read more about Wright's widow, who seems ... curious. And I'm not sure what to take away from this other than what a dynamic and complicated life. I can't imagine being married so much and abandoning children or a tattle tale sibling causing a partner to be sent off to a prison camp. She seems more complicated than her own family and never seemed to find a purpo…

The book about her life is heartbreaking. It’s clear she was extremely traumatized and also could hardly deal with her father’s crimes both to the country and to her family. She was in a way a victim but also a troubled person. A fascinating crazy life.
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