Abstract
So shouts a disabled Russian serviceman to a woman who has asked him to stop his ranting and raving about the Afghan War of the 1980s on a subway train. The scene appears halfway through award-winning BBC filmmaker Adam Curtis’s latest piece, Bitter Lake. Afghanistan was the Soviet Union’s heart of darkness – the place where a crumbling empire sought to rediscover a last gasp of purpose. More recently it was the West’s apocalypse now.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Type | Article |
| Media of output | Online |
| Publisher | Spiked |
| Publication status | Published - 5 Feb 2015 |
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Bitter lake: searching for meaning in the afghan abyss. / Durodie, William.
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