How Kremlin forces Russians to watch war propaganda in movies
Russia will finance the production of at least 140 feature films in 2025, the vast majority of which will be propaganda movies.
At the end of 2024, the Russian Ministry of Culture approved a list of topics for films that will receive financial support in 2025. The main topic: “the heroism of the participants of the special military operation and the great Patriotic war”. Also on the list: “strengthening traditional Russian values”, “countering falsification of history”, etc.
Every year, the Kremlin increases state spending on the film industry, using it as a tool to propagate war and hatred of everything “non-Russian.” In 2024, 25 films were made at the expense of the state, 20 of which failed at the box office.
Russians are proving with their wallets that even they are not interested in propaganda films funded by the Kremlin, but the Russian government leaves them no choice.
