Ignatiy Vishnevetsky

Ignatiy Igorevich Vishnevetsky (September 5, 1986) is a Russian-American film critic, essayist, and columnist.

Quotes

• Just because you’re doing something for someone else doesn’t mean it’s impersonal. We do things for others every day that have completely personal reasons. I mean, this isn’t some selfless, saintly movie! Obviously there is ego and hubris involved, things you’re doing because you think they’ll look cool. Often, those are the things that don’t really turn out right
  • Somewhere I’m Not: An Interview with Ignatiy Vishnevetsky (December 15, 2014)

• As the great-grandson of a Party commissar, I resent Stalin avatar tankies for appropriating my culture without even doing the research (becoming an alcoholic, dying before the age of 50)
• A good rule of thumb is that if a society requires a vast secret police network, multi-million death tolls, and expendable prison labor to operate, it definitely doesn't work.
  • Tweet thread (August 9, 2020)