# Chuck Norris vs Communism **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 23, 2016, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chuck-norris-vs-communism/749950 "2016-03-23T14:40:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2016, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chuck-norris-vs-communism/749950/1 "2016-03-23T14:40:02Z")
No, not a new martial arts movie. Premiered at last year’s Sundance Film Festival, it’s an excellent documentary about how Hollywood movies smuggled into Romania influenced the 1989 revolution. [http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3u8y4o](http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3u8y4o) ---
**Author:** ![PatrickLondon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/patricklondon/32/4422_2.png) [@PatrickLondon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatrickLondon)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2016, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chuck-norris-vs-communism/749950/2 "2016-03-23T16:48:39Z")
I think you’ll find a simple conspiracy within the ruling party, with some assistance from the KGB, the more likely explanation. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2016, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chuck-norris-vs-communism/749950/3 "2016-03-23T16:50:48Z")
Didn’t bother to watch the whole thing, did you? ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2016, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chuck-norris-vs-communism/749950/4 "2016-03-23T17:31:48Z")
I was waiting for this doc. for a long time and found myself disappointed. It wasn’t as interesting or engaging as I’d hoped for. Still, kind of neat. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2016, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chuck-norris-vs-communism/749950/5 "2016-03-23T17:34:51Z")
I’m still waiting for the 1000 years of Darkness that Chuck promised me would happen if Obama were elected. ---
**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2016, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chuck-norris-vs-communism/749950/6 "2016-03-23T17:43:55Z")
I watched this on TV and thought it was interesting. My favorite part was when the woman who did most of the translating for these films recounted how her boss told her she was very wrong to refer to “God” in one film instead of “The One Above”, or something like that, and did she know how angry the top official who’d been watching the film was to hear her say that? (She didn’t say, but could have, “Well, why was he watching a film about the life of Christ, then?”) ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2016, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chuck-norris-vs-communism/749950/7 "2016-03-23T18:07:31Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > I was waiting for this doc. for a long time and found myself disappointed. It wasn’t as interesting or engaging as I’d hoped for. Still, kind of neat. Somebody should make a feature-length docudrama about the operation. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2016, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chuck-norris-vs-communism/749950/8 "2016-03-23T18:21:19Z")
> [@Dendarii\_Dame](#): > > My favorite part was when the woman who did most of the translating for these films recounted how her boss told her she was very wrong to refer to “God” in one film instead of “The One Above”, or something like that, and did she know how angry the top official who’d been watching the film was to hear her say that? (She didn’t say, but could have, “Well, why was he watching a film about the life of Christ, then?”) I like the use of Rocky leading all those Philadelphia youth as an allegory for the character fostering dissent among the Romanian public. With the help of an undercover Secret Policeman.