Belarusian Waltz

I watched this documentary tonight on PBS, and I was *not* shocked by this xenophobic piece of propaganda. Not shocked because almost everything I watch on PBS nowadays is of a similar nature.

The protagonist of this documentary is ultra-nationalistic, misogynistic, anti-Semitic "artist". He is proud of his father who was Nazi collaborator during WWII. He paints pictures of the "heroes" in Nazi uniforms and displays them on the steps of the National Gallery on the Victory day. He abandons his pregnant wife because she's of a wrong nationality, and he's proud of this. He uses anti-Semitic slurs, which are, incidentally, *not* translated into English by the film creators.

By the way, the film was financed by the Norwegian company Piraya Film A/S. I'd like to ask these Norwegians, why don't they finance the films about nice Norwegian guys who collaborated with Nazis in Norway? Or maybe a good start would be a lighthearted documentary about Norway's own Anders Breivik? They can conveniently omit the actual shooting incident and just show Breivik's human sides. Let's take it out of context, show it to world which will wonder why is this guy serving life sentence.

But no, according to the West, such creeps are only allowed to be painted as heroes when they oppose West bogeymen like Putin or Lukashenko.

Don't get fooled by this film's narrative. Its hero is actually anti- hero.