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More Laowai Cinema Riots in 1930s China – Russians this time

Posted: August 13th, 2015 | No Comments »

I always seem to be coming across foreigners trashing cinemas – Italians getting angry at the Isis here and others getting angry at Nazi movies in Hongkew Park somewhere – and now Russians getting angry. Apparently in November 1941 (a couple of weeks before Pearl Harbor) white and red Russians were going at it at showings of Soviet films in the French Concession…..

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