/ world today news/ The film “Jojo the Rabbit” about the good Hitler from the “Disney” studio, created as a co-production of the USA and Germany, is released on the big screen all over the world, except for Russia. As it became known, the film is not even planned to be broadcast in Russian cinemas, this is not a ban, censorship or a decision of the Public Council for Culture under the President of the Russian Federation, which previously did not allow the film “The Death of Stalin”, also allegedly satirical comedy.
The film tells the story of ten-year-old German boy Jojo, nicknamed the Rabbit, who dreams of becoming a real Nazi during World War II. After the father leaves the family, the child invents an imaginary friend – Adolf Hitler.
Hitler, performed by the director himself, is a kind of imaginary friend of the boy, as Carlson is, he appears, disappears cheerfully, gives stupid and funny advice, causes a storm of good feelings in the viewer. In a Nazi camp, boys burn books and draw caricatures of Jews, build character by killing pets, rabbits. The director uses documentary footage of fascist parades for his easy comedy and imposes German Beatles covers. Nazi investigators are played by actors from sitcoms, and Hitler himself is crazy about unicorns.
The writer Yuri Polyakov commented on why the comedy about Hitler will not be broadcast in Russia:
Apparently none of the distributors bought the rights to the film even though it was supposed to be released. Hitler for our mentality is undeniably a negative figure, but obviously in the West Hitler did much less evil. They remember him fondly, and to us he is unquestionably evil. He’s the boy’s best friend there, they might as well make a serial killer the boys’ best friend, you know?
Culture is a very complex space in which, of course, you cannot ban everything without thinking, because it simply stops developing, but you also cannot absolutely allow everything, because chaos ensues. But in the West there are some topics that no one will argue about. For example, you cannot dispute the Holocaust, and the person who undertakes to dispute it risks going to jail. And suddenly an idea arises – but let’s show Hitler good for the sake of laughs? And the same people who are adamantly against disputing the Holocaust, whose families, grandmothers, grandfathers, uncles and aunts died in the camps, ended up in the ovens, these same people are starting to say that everything is fine, why not?
Do you guys not understand that from romanticizing Hitler is one step to removing the taboo of disputing the holocaust? These are hopped vessels. It’s the same when supporting Ukrainian Nazis. Then you will cry “how come?” – but how did you back in the day approve of the humanization of the image of Hitler? The image – I emphasize – the image. There are some iconic historical figures that you cannot play such games with.
In the film, Hitler is a positive figure, albeit an imaginary friend of a little boy, but they allow this to happen while they press us for the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, even though we were the last to sign such an agreement. Hitler can be presented as a good uncle, and Russia, because of this long-forbidden fact, will be pressured, right? Double standards. In no case should we play this double standard – they will play us. Their civilization, their information systems are much more cunning, much more complex, and their nature is aggressive and offensive. We just haven’t mastered them, we don’t even need to mess around in that area.
Translation: V.Sergeev
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