Bad habits on the screen were reflected in a completely different light.
Now it is customary in Russian cinema to fight what is considered an advertisement for bad habits: drinking, smoking, and so on. Many believe that Soviet censorship did not just leave the relevant episodes on the big screen, but did not at all regard it as propaganda.
In particular, the author of the Zen channel “Cinema | Retinsky”I am sure that it is simply impossible to imagine most of the cult Soviet films without the use of alcohol. So, Leonid Gaidai’s “Moonshiners” can simply be written off as scrap, and Ryazanov’s “Irony of Fate” without a key scene in the bath completely loses its meaning, because a sober Zhenya Lukashin would never have flown to Leningrad “instead of Pavlik”.
In the comments, the inhabitants of the country generally agreed with this opinion, noting that libations on the screen were an excellent excuse for Soviet directors and screenwriters to put their heroes in a comic or tragic situation, achieving the desired effect.
