In 1925, proof of Russia’s foray into genetic engineering emerged. At the end of the 1917 revolution, a movie was made that established a benchmark from which proof positive has been found. My assertion is that post-Tsarist Russia, whether it be in the guise of a member of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics or as today’s Russian Federation, began extraordinary genetic engineering advances. If you have access to Netflix, you also have access to this landmark piece of film work, a boon to geneticists everywhere. The film: The Battleship Potemkin.
The movie disguises itself as telling the history of one of the significant pre-1917 Socialist revolts which took place aboard a Black Sea pocket battleship in 1905. Don’t fall for the hype. The director and the editors of this silent film try to make you sympathetic to the workers and the common sailors throwing off the yoke of Tsarist oppression. Yes, the film by itself is awesome. Yes, there is a reference to the Russo-Japanese war I discussed in another blog article, but that’s all fluff. Watch the movie carefully and you’ll see what I mean.
There is no way, without genetic engineering or alien hybridization, that the same country that gave birth to the Women of Potemkin also gave birth to Ana Chapman.
There’s just no way. Watch the movie. I strongly encourage you to watch the movie. Watch is as part of your well-rounded education, your political indoctrination, a piece of historical film work or just to say you saw it, but watch it. And then prove to me I’m wrong.
It’s. Just. Not. Possible.