in the end
country-discourse fans tryna get me to care about can-openers and i refuse
Today in Things Everyone Should Be Aware Of: in 1981, Librianna: Bitch of the Black Sea was released with great fanfare, claiming to be the first X-rated film shot behind the Iron Curtain. It was so counter-cultural, so filthy, so disruptive to the status-quo, that the actors and filmmakers apparently had to flee the Soviet Union to avoid the depraved punishment of their sex-starved Communist government.
It’s a pretty great story.
Aaaand a pretty American story.
See, Librianna: Bitch of the Black Sea was made in America. By an American porn studio, with American actors, all credited under what are clearly the most Russian-sounding names they could think of. The whole ~subversive Russians making sexually-liberated pornography~ thing was part of the story. And I mean, come on, it fits right in; it’s 1981, what’s hotter to America than anti-Communist propaganda?
So if you’re ever feeling down, just remember that a porn studio dug around in the American subconscious during the Cold War and pulled out the image up there. If that doesn’t make you smile, I don’t know what will.






