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It even went further: in Romania, there was a popular movie in the 80s where the main plot is a high school student going to the math olympiad and his classmate
by new2628 6y ago
It even went further: in Romania, there was a popular movie in the 80s where the main plot is a high school student going to the math olympiad and his classmates cheering for him (with additional romantic threads of course).
- papeda 6y agoWhat movie is this?
- new2628 6y agohttps://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liceenii https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liceenii
- V-2 6y agoObviously all culture, and certainly mass culture in the Soviet bloc was controlled for "proper social message". I don't suppose Romania was more lax in respect to that? A movie cheering for, or even trivializing anti-social behaviors would find it difficult to go past censorship (not to mention - to be conceived in the first place...) It's for the same reason that you'd be hard-pressed to find a pre-1989 Central/Eastern European movie depicting any subcultures (like punks or hippies) sympathetically.
- Koshkin 6y agoIn the West the mass culture is also controlled in some way (for political correctness).
- V-2 6y agoYou're correct, but anti-intellectualism (as defined for the context of this thread) doesn't belong to its targets.
- new2628 6y agoYes, that's a good point, and it was a positive side-effect of Soviet times that intellectual pursuits were valued/supported, especially those that were "pure" enough (math, chess, etc.) to be harmless to the regime.