This week, the DPP lads head east — to the wild years of Russia in the 1990s after the fall of communism.
That's right — we're talking about 1997's gangster coming-of-age feature Brat by Aleksei Balabanov, a film that explores Russia at a turning point: between the drunken post-Communist years of Yeltsin and the rising authoritarianism of Putin.
To paraphrase Gramsci — "the crisis consists precisely in the fact that Boris is dying and Vladimir cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear."
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