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# A post-Soviet person, raised in a standard-issue flat behind an iron door with three locks, itself set over a wooden door upholstered in leatherette, with a bolt, a latch and a little hook, cannot grasp the true horror of American films, in which the most
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/postsovetskomu-cheloveku-vyrosshemu-v-tipovoi-kvartire-s-zheleznoi-dveriu-s-tremia-zamkami-poverkh-dereviannoi-dveri-s-obshivkoi-iz-dermatina-zasovom-shpingaletom-i-shchekoldochkoi-ne-p/
- Published: 2023-08-20T08:01:14.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-01T05:35:58.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: Cinema, Observations, Mores, Humour

A post-Soviet person, raised in a standard-issue flat behind an iron door with three locks, itself set over a wooden door upholstered in leatherette, with a bolt, a latch and a little hook, cannot grasp the true horror of American films, in which the most terrifying things (a ruthless maniac killer, a deranged intelligence agent, a cold-blooded hitman and a ferocious witch of a granny) bring their absolute evil straight through walls made of pressed cardboard and front doors made of plywood, which the villain punches through with a fist or saws open with an electric jigsaw. But a mortgage on not the most solid of dwellings, paid off over decades of life spent sitting on a powder keg, looks far more like a universal fear, uniting in friendly, soothing embraces both the Sovietstani and the American

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