Alexey Smirnov's blog

Here is the movie that describes life of great Russian writer Gogol. It has a number of parts, all available on 1TV website. Here is only the first part. The movie is in Russian.

An interesting movie as it makes it clear how different the 2004 campaign is from this one. Moore is trying to persuade the audience that war in Iraq was unjustified and that it was damaging. He presents the whole election process as a battle between Kerry and Bush whereas I think there was no doubt at all. As an insider I recall that media was blackmouthing Kerry a lot. Moore mentions this indeed but what I am saying here is that Kerry was doomed despite whether he responded to accusations on his illegal war medals or not.

Moore was trying to explain to public that Bush was dishonest but that did not matter. I guess Bush was quite popular as he was able to protect America even though his approval ratings would indicate the opposite.