Big Lies: The Forgotten Russian Holocaust (39 min) Igor Runov, dir. Wed. 1:00 pm Sat. 2:10 pm
The "Big Lies” concept was coined by Adolf Hitler as a propaganda weapon in his famous “Mein Kampf” but was first used by Joseph Stalin to cover up massive man-made hunger in the Soviet Union in the early 30s. In BIG LIES, a modern American writer travels to Russia where she meets the last survivors of Holodomor [the famine/genocide of Ukraine]. She also uncovers many controversial facts about the role played by American media and business in the early ’30s in Soviet Russia and begins to see the connection between those events and current domination of fake news and total mistrust on today’s post-truth world.
