DUEL | ПОЕДИНОК, 2020, directed by Timur Dubro (english subtitles)

After the annexation of Crimea to Russia in 2014, the country was split into two camps by means of television propaganda: TV watchers and Internet users, quilted jackets and “liberalists“, conservatives and progressives. Similar splits of society between traditionalists and modernizers often occurred in different countries, and we know many such examples in history, unfortunately, up to civil wars, when the split occurs simultaneously in many families, and literally brother goes against brother, son against father... We have been observing similar phenomena in Russian society since 2014, when the polarization of society on the issue of Crimea became extremely acute. Those who are used to watching official television believe every word of television speakers, and do not accept any criticism. Those who are used to thinking more critically and rationally, from the progressive camp, are not inferior to their opponents in principle and stubbornness. Position against position, principle against principle,