Evidently, NBC longs for the good old days.
From News Busters.
NBC whitewashed Russia’s communist legacy in the lead segment of its Friday broadcast of the opening ceremonies of the Winter Olympics in Sochi. Game of Thrones actor Peter Dinklage narrated the network’s lionization of the largest country by land mass: “Russia overwhelms. Russia mystifies. Russia transcends. Through every stage of its story, it’s resisted any notion of limitation. Through every re-invention, only redoubling its desire to cast a towering presence.”
However, Dinklage continued with a glorification of the Marxist-Leninist totalitarian state that slaughtered tens of millions of people between 1917 and 1991.
……This isn’t the first time that NBC has cast a positive light on Russia’s Soviet past. The Media Research Center, in its November 2009 special report “Better Off Red?” pointed out how Today anchor Matt Lauer suggested, during a February 12, 2004 segment, that Russians were somehow better off under the far-left regime:
MATT LAUER: We’re gonna be talking about the New Russia, how a few people are doing very well and the fear that others are being left very far behind….Russia’s rush to capitalism left the vast majority scrambling to survive. For many, life is worse than it was in Soviet times.
Hey, communism only killed about 100,000,000 people. Let’s give it another chance.
But not to worry, NBC. Comrade Vladimir Putin is doing everything he can to keep Russia as close to the old Soviet regime as he can.
Stay classy, liberals.
Pingback: Whitewashing Communism | pundit from another planet
Oh, Russia’s current inability to progress forward socially and economically is the fault of CAPITALISM. I see. Thanks, Left-media, for educating me. I thought their 90 years lack of progress was due to laziness, cynicism, cultural lethargy, poor economics, lack of education, Statism, dependency on government, collective arrogance, and alcoholism. Silly me!