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empther
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What a drag, man!
Looked like a convention of robots.
Where was the joy?
Especially oppressive was the segment representing Stalin’s industrialization period in the 1930s. You had these thousands of people all dressed alike ( no individualism under Stalin, you know ) carrying steel beams and walking inside giant gears. Makes you nostalgic for the good old days!
At the end, the little girl let go of the red balloon symbolizing the twentieth century dream never realized, meaning that it was a new century and let’s be hopeful. That was the end.
My sister said it was all trash. She and my brother take a trip every year. They’ve been to China, Egypt, England, Ireland, Italy, France, Greece, Russia and I forget where else. She says of all the peoples she saw the Russians were the grimmest.
Compare to the 1984 Summer opening ceremony in Los Angelos orchestrated by a prominent Hollywood movie producer/director. People dancing and running around to a hundred popular pieces of American music of the last two hundred years. The IOC President was moved to tears in gratitude “Well done, America!” ] for our reviving the Olympic movement which wasn’t doing so well at that time after Jimmy Carter’s idiotic boycott of the Moscow 1980 games and Russia’s reprisal boycott of the 1984 games. We knew how to throw a party without the Russians.
Looked like a convention of robots.
Where was the joy?
Especially oppressive was the segment representing Stalin’s industrialization period in the 1930s. You had these thousands of people all dressed alike ( no individualism under Stalin, you know ) carrying steel beams and walking inside giant gears. Makes you nostalgic for the good old days!
At the end, the little girl let go of the red balloon symbolizing the twentieth century dream never realized, meaning that it was a new century and let’s be hopeful. That was the end.
My sister said it was all trash. She and my brother take a trip every year. They’ve been to China, Egypt, England, Ireland, Italy, France, Greece, Russia and I forget where else. She says of all the peoples she saw the Russians were the grimmest.
Compare to the 1984 Summer opening ceremony in Los Angelos orchestrated by a prominent Hollywood movie producer/director. People dancing and running around to a hundred popular pieces of American music of the last two hundred years. The IOC President was moved to tears in gratitude “Well done, America!”
] for our reviving the Olympic movement which wasn’t doing so well at that time after Jimmy Carter’s idiotic boycott of the Moscow 1980 games and Russia’s reprisal boycott of the 1984 games. We knew how to throw a party without the Russians.
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