Jasmila Zbanic Quotes
I grew up during the shift to socialism, and since it was my childhood, I used to think that everything was beautiful and human.
Žbanić, Jasmila. "TIFF Women Directors: Meet Jasmila Zbanic." Interview by Melissa Silverstein. IndieWire, 4 Sept. 2013.
Ataturk was not receptive toward Communism as some other world leaders were at the time. He saw its weakness far earlier than many others.
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At the Seventh World Congress of the Comintern in 1935 the new Popular Front policy was announced. To communist hard-liners and to the far left, the policy was an abandonment of the Marxist revolutionary line.
Hoover’s testimony not withstanding, communism in America never did spread like an epidemic.
He had asked a family friend not to bring books by Hemmingway into his home. The friend asked why and received this answer. Koch and his brother were the largest political contributors in the United States, so they had enormous influence on Republicans (they only made political contributions to conservative organizations).
The occasion for the speech was the 60th birthday of Russian Premier, Joseph Stalin.
Jasmila Žbanić is a Bosnian film director, screenwriter and producer, best known for having written and directed Quo Vadis, Aida? (2020), which earned her nominations for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, the BAFTA Award for Best Film Not in the English Language, and the BAFTA Award for Best Direction.