Miniserie Trotsky Netflix

historical narrative in times of post-truth. This analysis adds to the published by fellow SEP Turkey. "For grossest it a lie, Sirs, no friends, do not stop slandering. Even after the defendant has denied, and you will have become the sore, and even heal, the scar will always remain ", Rousseau.

The phrase "lies, lies that something will remain " It is often allot though there is no evidence that he has spoken- a Joseph Goebbels, Nazi propaganda minister. In that sentence the use of lies and slander is summarized, based on the repetition and dissemination, effective weapons as political propaganda.

This brief reference comes to mind of Trotsky miniseries, which can be seen on Netflix: a blockbuster filmed in Putin's Russia and presents a series of gross historical falsifications about one of the greatest leaders of the October Revolution. Of little artistic level, but with great technical bill, The series was launched in Russia in November 2017 for the anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution. Throughout eight chapters the script spares no effort to demonize Trotsky, blaming the deaths of their own children, ascribing next to Lenin have dictated the order of execution of the tsar and his family, when neither had direct responsibility, and so on which it makes a mess libelous and berreta.

The injurious imbalance is such that the figure of Stalin is sweetened. If someone who knows nothing of history sees the series, sides with Stalin, to the ambitious monster size, bloody, cynical, petty and Trotsky speculator who is portrayed by fiction. But if the historical falsification and slander of bad taste are not enough, the series strives to present the Russian Revolution as a plot or coup, where there are no workers or a Bolshevik Party mobilizing the masses.

The party presents itself as a group of officials subject to the constraints of Trotsky and Lenin. With an overemphasis on convincing that the revolution was not an offense employee lending and mobilized massively lxs oprimidxs. Indigence narrative is not only the explicit anti-communist propaganda. In his eagerness not save misogynist libelous platitudes, placing all women of the plot in a social and political secondary role. Always at the service of male desire that embodies the voracious male Trotsky. To top off the reactionary combo, Series exudes a folk-Semitism (typical of Russian chauvinism) Showing a small (1) as a malicious Jewish, opportunistic and ambitious agent Germany.

A specter is haunting the world

The cultural industry of capitalism much has deployed effective tactic of making revolutionary figures into an object of consumption for popular culture makes, commodifying and trivializing their ideas. Emptying his evocation content and profiting from merchandising their image. Such is the emblematic case of Che Guevara. Nevertheless, the power and danger of some revolutionary for power is such that tactic focuses on avoiding naming and even erase history. And when they are inevitable, evocation is subject to historical distortions and the most vulgar accusations.

Trotsky's historical policy dimension perhaps explains why in his case the method has always been to build a libelous story. It is clear that the series is made according to the political interests of the Putin era. Air Launched in October 2017, a hundred years of the Russian Revolution, It is located in the Russian official state line to deny the deed of lxs trabajadorxs Russians who managed to impose for the first time in history a government worker.
The series originally aired by Channel One Russia, which it is the core of propaganda of the Russian government and was the main state channel (2). The message of the series, According to the directors, is that "You should not force people to go outside" and that "Every revolution means bloodshed" (3).

Meanwhile propagandist work, originality dodges him up on that. The figure of Trotsky is the paradigm of historical distortion and defamation. The Stalinist regime literally "erased" in the history of the Russian Revolution. The point that, today, manipulation of graphic records of various moments of the revolution are studied as pioneering works of photomontage. In the same vein official history was rewritten changing situations, misrepresenting the texts, falsifying plain facts to minimize the role of Trotsky and exalting Stalin.

Slander Trotsky is perhaps not the only thing that Putin equated Stalin. Putin's government bases its power and wealth in the current appropriation of state assets after the restoration of capitalism. This is a government executed with an iron hand and authoritarian, recurrently up jingoistic claim of Great Russia and whose current national anthem is used by a reversal of Stalinism.

Under these conditions, You need to recycle the historical narrative of hate Trotsky. Stalin's lies eighty years ago are still the basis of the official Russian history. You can only find a little difference with the argument of the Moscow Trials of the late años`30: the series makes use of explicit antisemitism. But the biggest similarity is, maybe, this colossal hatred denoting how big is the fear that the ideas of the creator of the Red Army in the powerful cause of yesterday and today. Trotsky choice for a series whose launch coincides with the centenary of the Russian Revolution indicate a historic policy role and responsibilities in the revolutionary process reading. Perhaps in this you are one of the few successes of the series. Viciously attack and defame who believe the most dangerous of the revolution.

The era of post-truth

Unlike the Stalinist vilification of the last century, This series is part of a time when the fragmentation of news sources has created a world that lies atomised, hearsay, gossip irrigated with alarming rate. Lies shared networks whose members trust each other more than the mainstream media, They take the appearance of truth.

This phenomenon some call post-truth is signando political practices of the most reactionary expressions of today. Recently the construction of post-truth in Brazil, for example, through the use of false news, It was vital for the triumph of fascist Bolsonaro. The press of that country after the elections spread the lucrative contracts to several companies that watered Whatsapp groups false information. Two years ago the same resource was displayed in the election campaign of Donald Trump.
Contemporary disciples of Goebbels have a privileged resource in the repetition of lies to generate accessions, promote and reinforce prejudices.

However, the series has an advantage over false news, sometimes distributed by hand in networks, He is residing in a great persuasive power. The expensive production and good technical bill makes it very convincing to a viewer without historical information.

LXS Trotskyists have had historically a categorical definition against censorship of any cultural expression. Defending the independence of art against art regimentation and the "socialist realism" driven by Stalinism. From there we claim the right to point out the historical falsehoods overabundant in this fiction, designed with an explicit policy objective to promote reactionary thought.

Raul Gomez

1) small: Marxist theorist and financier of the revolution with whom Trotsky came to produce the first Essays on the Theory of Permanent Revolution, whose real name was Israel Lazarevich Gelfand.
2) Channel One Russia still retains most of state shares, the company of Roman Abramovich, one of the wealthiest magnates in Russia and who some say as figurehead Putin himself.
3) Aleksandr Kott y Konstantin Statskiy, the directors of the series, and one of its writers, Oleg Malovichko, in interviews they explained the objectives of the series.

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14.2.2019