For many years, I taught courses on Soviet culture and cinema to Belarusian students at the European College of Liberal Arts in Belarus (ECLAB) in Minsk. Unfortunately, due to political repressions, the college had to close down in 2020. Throughout the years of Belarusian independence, remnants from the Soviet Union have permeated the everyday lives of its citizens as well as the country’s colloquial and political rhetoric, often thoroughly detached from their original cultural contexts, discourses, and imaginaries. But what can we learn from watching Soviet movies today? „Olga Romanova: WATCHING SOVIET CINEMA TODAY: “The Woman” (1932) by Yefim Dzigan and Boris Shreyber“ weiterlesen