> Some of the rus authors have had a significant role in shaping the current rus culture and imperialism.

I don't believe that you have any first-hand knowledge of Russian culture or literature. In fact, this seems more like ignorant western propaganda talking points.

I had to chew through quite a few of those rus books in school, read Dostoyevsky again later. Quite enjoyed Bulgakov. But still most of the big names convey rus greatness and how suffering for the czar is honorable.

Also nice ad hominem, well done.

No they don't. That's like the opposite of Russian literature (at least that which had survived through the ages)

I'd get if this was a difference in interpretation, but I don't understand how can you even make such a claim, when it is a historic fact that most of the "big names" had been in confrontation with czars, had problems with overcoming censorship or were altogether considered crimanals and were exiles.

Either you are confusing the author's point of view with the point of some character (maybe due to cultural perspective and different traditions of virtue signaling), or maybe you don't get the Aesopian language, or worse.

Also, ad hominem is quite a valid argument, especially if it comes to subjective stuff. Especially if we have to consider cultural background.

Wow.

> Some of the rus authors have had a significant role in shaping the current rus culture and imperialism. The same that thinks it’s alright to murder, loot, rape and pillage.

You don't really know Tolstoy, do you?

But the director of this movie is among of those people.

I don't know this guy; maybe he is a raging monster, no idea.

But in any case, he has virtually no influence in shaping “rus” (you know they switched to “russian” for over five centuries now, right?) culture and imperialism.

I understand that train of thought, but does this really apply to Anna Karenina? It's a pre-soviet work from well over a century ago, from a time when the Russian state and society were very different from what exists today.

Wow...

Well, I guess I should be used to the fact that western media often treats their readers as illiterate idiots without their own opinions, but still... Wow!

Does that apply to a filmed version though?

This movie was made in 2017. Soviet era ended in 1990. War in Ukraine started in 2014.