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Are you just trying to suggest that such movies are not made with the explicit intention of being anticommunist propaganda???
I did not say that. Again, I am not even talking about "The Death of Stalin", I'm talking about satires as a whole.
Saying "it's a joke bro" don't make anticommunist propaganda any better.
I agree, again, I think there's a disconnect towards what were exactly talking about.
I AM NOT DEFENDING ANTI-COMMUNIST PROPAGANDA OR THE DEATH OF STALIN. I am saying that satire can be ironic and has the ability to be misinterpreted. Like the Polish films you mentioned before, they're satirical but some people believe them as reality. That doesn't make them propaganda.
Or Warhammer. A satire on fascism, imperialism, and militarism, but many completely miss the entire point of the satire.
This is where you are completely wrong. The polish movies i mentioned, obviously werent intended as anticommunist propaganda since they were made in socialist state - though Poland had mixed record on this, contrary to what traitors say, socialist state here did allowed great degree of artistic freedom for critique, be it serious or satirical. And once system changed all that IS PURPOSEFULLY USED as anticommunist propaganda by the worst scum imaginable.
Almost every movie and most other media created in capitalism and descibing anything related to communism is filled with propaganda. FFS in Poland even completely unrelated romance books or fantasy stories more often than not include at least some jabs at communism. Even a book being summary of ancient Chinese chronicles had jabs against communism. Even Zinn's People history of USA had anticommunist preface out of nowhere.
And you seems to be very fixated on the satire or comedy as something different? They aren't different, or rather my point going to the well know pedagogical fact that children, and in fact adults too, learn better through fun, and in this case they learn anticommunist propaganda. So a fun anticommunist movie will be naturally worse from our point of view than a boring one.