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'Indiana Jones' angers Communist party

Published Friday, May 23 2008, 12:21 BST | By Simon Reynolds
'Indiana Jones' angers Communist party
Communist party members in St. Petersburg are seeking to ban the new Indiana Jones film, saying it is "anti-Soviet propaganda".

Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull revolves around Harrison Ford's archaeologist and a group of KGB agents, led by Cate Blanchett, racing to return a mystical skull to a Mayan temple.

Viktor Perov, a member of the Russian Communist party, said: "What galls is how together with America we defeated Hitler, and how we sympathized when Bin Laden hit them. But they go ahead and scare kids with Communists. These people have no shame."

Another party member Vladimir Mukhin claimed that the film would give teenagers the wrong idea about communism.

"The film is low-quality and would raise a smile if there wasn't a danger of drawing into its orbit teenagers who know nothing about the 1950s."

He continued: "Indians and aliens unite with Jones and his untrustworthy buddies to save the world from a Russian threat - what rubbish, simply a paranoid Churchillian fantasy."

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