Ordinary Fascism: Treat the Masses Like a Woman
Description: The technique of using Fascism for a covert critique of the Soviet system was pioneered by Mikhail Romm in his Ordinary Fascism (1965). Using newsreel footage captured with the fall of Berlin, and photographs taken from SS soldiers, Romm drew a vast panorama of life under totalitarian Nazism. He narrated the film himself in a conversation tone, telling his viewers “We selected what seemed most striking from the tremendous amount of material, to give us all the opportunity to think a bit.” Just one of the ways that he drew attention of the analogy of Nazism to Soviet communism was by using the term, unusual in Russian, of Nazism instead of Fascism, underscoring the socialism in national socialism.