HORRIFYING INSANITY – WORLD WAR THREE IN UKRAINE: Oliver Stone Speaks In Russia On the Eve of Memorial Day in America

Democrats, Neocon Fascists And The Deep State Military Industrial Complex Will Ignite A Nuclear Holocaust Unless Trump Can Stop Them

May 26, 2025

Filmmaker Oliver Stone is in Russia, speaking yesterday at the “Knowledge First” marathon, a series of Ted-like talks that have been held in multiple Russian cities while the war rages in Ukraine. A full transcript derived from NoteGPT is below.

Stone has delivered a courageous indictment of America’s warmongering history in the wake of World War Two.

“Why is America suddenly leading a crusade? We’re facing a real World War Three. How proud, how zealous we became in our war fever. You know I’ve seen this before.”

It’s entirely plausible that Stone is acting as an unofficial Emissary for Peace on behalf of President Trump while countering the Orwellian lies and narratives of the globalist deep state, the radical left Democrat Party and the Bush neocons in Washington and NATO.

The renowned filmmaker, former Democrat and historian, has laid blame for the war in Ukraine squarely on the radical Democrat Party, the illegitimate Biden regime, and John Brennan, the former director of the CIA.

“Trump has been depicted in our media as a tyrant and a disaster”.

This epic speech will most certainly be ignored by the mainstream media in the United States. However they twist the truth, we’ve definitely reached a turning point in America’s history of fomenting war, from Vietnam to Iraq and Afghanistan, and today in Ukraine.

The Biden Administration was “destroyed by their own stupidity, the worst Adminstration I’ve seen in my lifetime.”

Stone indicts Biden, Brennan, Pelosi, Schiff, Schumer, the Deep State and the radical liberals in the Democrat Party for bringing us to the brink of World War Three.

“I want to emphasize to you students how very close we came to World War Three because of the awful leadership we experienced under Joe Biden and his radical advisors such as Anthony Blinken and Jake Sullivan“. Referring to the Russia Collusion Hoax, Stone says that “John Brennan at the CIA, was I believe, the key instigator of this poison at the heart of the insurrection.”

Referring to the “idiot son” of President George H.W. Bush, Stone indicts the complicity of Republican neocons as well. Stone also acknowleges that the terrorist attacks of 9/11 served to benefit America’s warmongers, Israel and the United Kingdom.

The Second Iraq War “was incredibly messy and stupid, perpetrated by an American administration led by the idiot son of George Bush and his gang of Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, and a dozen other neoconservatives, fascists out to light the world on fire. Oh God, they almost succeeded.”

“And Israel, of course, they do what they want. They don’t pay attention to anybody. They control American policy. They say, there’s France. And of course, Britain, the war dog, has been an aggressor for centuries now. and a particular enemy of Russia today.”

Stone calls the 9/11 attacks a “charade”. Today, a growing number of Republicans members of Congress are calling for a second 9/11 commission to investigate who was behind the attacks and the controlled demolition of WTC building seven.

The following are selected quotes from Stone’s speech. The video is 45 minutes long and it’s an absolute must listen. The full transcript is at the bottom of this post.

America in 2025, A Rotting Carcass of Greed and Power

“America has squandered the splendor and power it realized after World War Two. From the apex of 1946, to the degeneracy of 2025, New York City could be seen as a rotting carcass of greed and power, an oligarchy of corruption.”

“My generation, sadly, never stepped forward.” (Stone was born in 1946). My contemporary, Bill Clinton, was the great appeaser who tried to make everybody happy. He ended up painfully selling out, changing the Democratic Party forever.”

From Bush Sr. to Clinton, Bush’s “Idiot” Son, to a Demented Biden

“George W. Bush took us into a war on terror that never ended. George Bush took us on a road of unnecessary militarism with his wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and ultimately the greatest war of all, the war on terror.”

“We bring a great waste of our resources, and the height of this futility was the war that Mr. Biden recently dedicated to weakening Russia. This was the war in Ukraine, a retrograde war.”

America’s Orwellian Propaganda Matrix

“The propaganda state in the west is an incredible empire, far bigger and stronger than I ever imagined. We are unable to see from inside the matrix, the lie that Russia, China and Iran are our mortal enemies. This is not true.”

“I want to emphasize to you students, how very close we came to World War Three because of the awful leadership we experienced under Joe Biden and his radical advisors, such as Anthony Blinken and Jake Sullivan. We survived, which brings us now to our Trump, Mr. Trump, who has been depicted time and again in our media as a tyrant and a disaster.”

“These people have allowed their personal hatred for Mr. Trump to destroy their common sense.”

“In his first term of 2016, they were the ones who undermined him right away, with the false and ridiculous charges of being Putin’s boy, because he questioned the key narrative that Russia is our enemy. John Brennan of the CIA was, I believe, was the key instigator of this poison at the heart of the insurrection. Abetted by those such as Hillary Clinton and the Democratic National Committee, certainly Obama, and the intelligence agencies, and people in Congress like Adam Schiff, Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer”

“Let us conquer the beast in ourselves. It can be done”

The question and answer session is also well worth listening to. Stone discusses the My Lai massacre during the Vietnam War, Russian movies that have powerful messages for the world, and his view that the United States must recognize that we live in a multipolar world.

May 26, 2025 URGENT WARNING: Zelensky targeted Putin’s helicopter last week and President Trump didn’t know about it?

Newsweek reports that Putin’s helicopter was targeted by Ukrainian drones while touring the Kursk region of Russia last week. Putin’s helicopter was “at the epicenter” of a “large-scale” Ukrainian drone attack on May 20, Yury Dashkin, commander of a Russian air defense division, said, according to Kremlin newswire Tass.

For more information: https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2025/05/25/putin-escaped-massive-ukraine-drone-assault-on-his-helicopter-moscow-claims/

Sky News is reporting that Russia is amassing 50,000 troops for an attack on Ukraine’s second largest city, Kharkiv, which has a population of 1.4 million. Three successive nights of heavy drone bombardment have escalated the war to a point that any peace negotiations will require Ukraine to lose even more territory.

For more Information: https://www.infowars.com/posts/timeline-learn-the-backstory-behind-the-latest-russian-offensive

TRUMP IS BEING INFO-COCOONED BY THE DEEP STATE YET AGAIN! (Dr. Donnie Smith Substack)

This latest example showed itself when Trump was being interviewed by media regarding Ukraine being hit by Russian missiles in multiple cities.

Here is video of Trump’s remarks. Pay very close attention to the Reporter asking the follow-up, and pointing out that Putin’s presidential helicopter was caught in a Ukraine Drone attack.

Did you hear the reporter ask about the helicopter being caught in a Ukraine drone attack?

Trump responded “I hadn’t heard that; maybe that was it.”

Trump then reiterated “I hadn’t heard about that.”

There it is, he’s being kept inside an information cocoon, again. They’re keeping him in the dark about key facts again!

For more information: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/russia-ukraine-war-trump-putin-crazy-kyiv-missile-drone-attack/?utm_campaign=may27morningnote&utm_medium=email&utm_source=iterable&utm_content=morningnote

UPDATE November 19, 2024: WORLD WAR THREE?! FLASHBACK TO TRUMP WARNS – “We Need Peace Without Delay!”

00:00:06 American director Oliver Stone. Oliver [Applause] [Music] Stone, Mr. Please welcome [Applause] Hello. Hello. Hello. [Applause] Yeah. Good. Everybody’s young here. Hello, Fernando. Nice to see you all. Okay. I’m the school teacher today. We’re in We’re in a history museum, right? So, uh, we’re talk about history. You’re okay. I hear you. I hear you. That’s good. How’s my voice? Okay. [Applause] Okay. I’m starting. I cannot limit my perspective today to movies. I love movies, but I love history even

00:01:29 more. And this year, 2025, is I pray a real turning point in our history of the world. The defining event of my lifetime has been World War II. I wasn’t born until 1946. I’m very much a child of war, a child of divorce, and finally of history. A child of history. History is a convergence of many rivers into a bigger and bigger river until it becomes an ocean. And then we see how important the rivers are. We call that ocean history. My mother was a French girl. My father was an American officer in World War II.

00:02:22 They met in Paris in 1944. They married in 45. The lieutenant colonel took her back to America in to the dream of New York City and all its splendor and power of 1946. The greatest country on earth, the most amount of money, the greatest opportunity and privilege. I was born into that. Imagine. Imagine what it was then and what it is it today. You could argue that America has truly squandered that power with needless militarism, investment in endless wars, without consideration for the welfare of its own

00:03:15 citizens. From the apex of 1946 to the degeneracy of 2025, New York City could be seen as a rotting carcass of greed and power, an oligarchy of corruption. Yet inside it, I do not give up. Inside it is a beating heart of hope. Hope, yes, in artificial intelligence. I believe in it. in good use of technology. Yes. And certainly most of all, I believe in human intelligence and compassion. When I was a kid, I often dreamed of some superco computer which seems to be buildable now that would gather together all the

00:04:20 possibilities of strategies, moves, and what history has taught us and sum it all up. Sum it all up so that we could always make historically the best decisions. But that’s impossible because obviously the input would come from people who actively work at controlling the mindset of our population. So it’s never done in the public interest. The Socratic concept of course just doesn’t work because they always kill the Socrates. They kill or discredit people who don’t care about private gain and just think about the good of

00:05:11 the common people. The those people are considered dangerous to the public good and therefore they’re removed. My generation sadly never stepped forward. I didn’t do my job. I never became more than a filmmaker. But I wish I had in hindsight. My contemporary Bill Clinton was the great appeaser who tried to make everybody happy. But he ended up painfully selling out, changing the Democrat party forever. A great appeaser. Yet he pushed NATO to the east. He began that process of betraying the promises made by Baker and Bush to

00:06:06 Gorbachov. Not one inch to the east. And we went east, right into the heart of Russia in the form of Ukraine. We started with Clinton. It magnified under George W. Bush who took us into a war on terror that never ended. It’s still going on. A state of emergency has been declared our mantra and in its name. The state can do anything it wants, including changing the laws at will, arresting in the name of security, anybody and anything that crosses the line of what is considered political correctness.

00:06:50 George Bush took us into a onto a road of unnecessary militarism. with his wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and ultimately the greatest war of all, the war he declared on terror, which is still going on today. As we move as we move on, bombing, bombing, bombing from Yugoslavia in 99 to Sudan and Yemen and the so-called lesser folk who we consider dangerous to our world order. So we bring a great waste of our resources and the height of this futility was a war which Mr. Biden recently dedicated to weakening

00:07:43 Russia. This was the war in Ukraine, a retrograde war. The last three years have been harrowing to me in the West. I’ve I’ve learned, among other things, the propaganda state in the West is an incredible empire, far bigger and stronger than I ever imagined. We are unable to see from the inside of the matrix the lies that have enveloped us that Russia and China and Iran and so forth are our moral enemies, mortal enemies. This isn’t true. But we have succumbed to that because our media, the networks, and the

00:08:30 elitist media have told us repeatedly inventing lies about our enemies. The worst of it was George Orwell. It’s George Orwell time. I imbeelic imbecillic accusations against Mr. Putin and his Russia. In the old days, even in the worst of the Cold War, we never referred to Russia as Krushchev or Brev. That’s what we’re doing now. We call Russia Putin because Putin, for whatever reason, has been personalized. This isn’t policy. This is a tragic this is a tragic substitution of hatred for intelligence. As a result, I’ve had to

00:09:23 re we’ve had to relive the whole 1946 to 1962 cycle again until that is Kennedy and Kruch began the process of change. I want to emphasize to you students how very close we came to World War II because of the awful leadership we experienced under Joe Biden and his radical adviserss such as Anthony Blinken and Jake Sullivan. We survived. Which brings us now to our Trump, Mr. Trump, who has been depicted time and again in our media as a tyrant and a disaster. These people have allowed their personal hatred for Mr. Trump to

00:10:20 destroy their common sense. In his first term of 2016, they were the ones who undermined him right away with the false and ridiculous charges of being Putin’s boy. because he questioned the key narrative that Russia is our enemy. John Brennan of the CIA was I believe the key instigator of this poison at the heart of the insurrection emedded such as by those such as Hillary Clinton and the Democratic National Committee. Certainly Obama who knew better and betrayed his intelligence and Joe Biden, the old the

00:11:09 old cold warrior and the other and the intelligence agencies and of course people like people in Congress such as Adam Schiff and Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer. It didn’t matter to these people or their Democrat supporters that their position against Trump drove us into a fullout engagement against Russia by 2022. Not only financing but aiding aiding it with increasing military equipment, our battlefield intelligence, and finally our management. As reported most recently in the anti-Russian New York

00:11:51 Times, it was a pure proxy war without our real troops, without sending our real troops. And the only reason this unlikely alliance was defeated was the strength of the Russian resistance and the intrinsic arrogance of the Ukrainian military that by 2024 and 25 was now asserting control and taking their own advice. Anyway, that’s the story the intelligence agencies told us. It’s quite possibly true. The Ukrainian arrogance is certainly displayed in President Zilinsk’s melodramatic demands for world war

00:12:31 against the Russian invader. A crusade against Russia in the name of Western democracy and freedom. How crazy. How nuts. And here we are all lining up like happy patriotic idiots to fight the new Hitler who we call Putin. It was the most frightening circumstance for these people like myself who are praying for sanity. Please. Why is the America of not so long ago, 1992, suddenly leading a crusade with an old demented President Biden against the most powerfully armed and dedicated nation we ever faced. And on top of

00:13:16 that, taking ourselves up at the same time, talking ourselves up at the same time into taking on the Chinese nation either simultaneously or right after Wow. This we’re facing a real World World War II. How proud, how zealous we became in our war fever. You know, I’ve seen this before, this zealousness again and again. It’s in the books that we read were taught students, you and me, students in the books about World War I and further back in time to the Crusades of the Medieval Ages on behalf of

00:14:02 Christianity. I’ve seen it in closeup in my lifetime in Vietnam and again the first Iraq war. How excited we were after so many years of Vietnam defeatism to watch these mighty bombs and rockets dropping on Baghdad in the dark night lighting up a world of new American dominance. It was horrifying. If you were sane and knew the real facts behind the war and for that matter behind the 911 charade, none of which will stand up to the light, to the true light of history, provided we keep that counternarrative alive in our unofficial

00:14:48 press. So important for you students to recognize that we need a counternarrative. remember that in the false history they teach us in the American propaganda empire. And by the way, that war in 19 uh that war the US fought and won in 1991 was followed not too long after by the second Iraq war from 2001 to 2011. I’m sorry, from 2003 to 2011. which was incredibly messy and stupid, perpetrated by an American administration led by the idiot son of George Bush and his gang of Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolawitz, and a dozen other another and

00:15:42 dozen other neoconservatives, fascists out to light the world on fire. Oh god, they almost succeeded. But as Shakespeare would have said, they were hoist on their own petard, destroyed by their own stupidity and incompetence in ruling both Baghdad and Washington, both of which they ruined. The worst administration I’ve seen in my lifetime. And of course, you should add the mess they made in Libya, Syria, and Eastern Africa. and earlier in the Balkans, but we don’t have time for that here. The only time in my life that I

00:16:32 feared for our world even more than living through those Iraqi years of chaos was just a few years ago when our Biden administration stumbled into its latest misadventure in Ukraine of all places. Of course, it would be in the heart of the emp of the uh Eastern Europe. It would be the demolition of what we feared as the new Russian Empire that we said wanted to control the world. But who wanted to control the world really and said it without saying it many times again and again? It was the USA with of course its proxy NATO and

00:17:13 the EU and so forth. And here we are just 10 years after the Iraq debacle was over, rushing into Ukraine as if to as if to forget the folly of Iraq and Afghanistan. Now this time we were smart. It was without our direct presence of or NATO troops except of course is strategists and weapons handlers. Everything short of fighting itself. And it was finally a giant Ukrainian army that we put into the field by 2016. And by 2024 they came back decimated as in Vietnam. as in Afghanistan, as in in every American

00:18:06 intervention. Trump in his first term sent offensive weapons into Ukraine. We pray in his second term that he’s learned the truth behind our motives and is mature enough to resist it. For this, he’s hated by a democratic population that can’t forgive him, even if it means, as it did under Joe Biden, World War II. That’s how crazy the so-called liberals have become. And this drove many people like myself away from their party. [Applause] So, where are we? In the unlikely present, in the unlikely protest, in the unlike

00:19:00 in the unlikely person of Donald Trump, a real estate hustler from my city, hometown of New York. History has taken another U-turn. Can he with Putin at his side turn the tables? Turn the tables and give us on the snide intelligencia of Washington in Europe and give us peace. A peace that will work. It’s been almost 80 years now that I’ve been on earth. And guess what? I believe and I will go on believing. Why not? That there is a possibility of peace. Kennedy talked about it and Gorbachoff talked about

00:20:00 [Applause] it and even Reagan said, “Why not? But this is true. This is a moment we can realize the dream. Keep in mind that in tw 2002 uh Bush tore up the ABM treaty, Trump the INF treaty in 19 in 2019, the intermediate nuclear force treaty and the START treaty is now in jeopardy. Now is the time we can turn this around. What if Trump and Putin actually between themselves start destroying our nuclear weapons take 10 15 10% 15% 20% at a at a time each year with with with strict investigations from both

00:21:10 countries. It’s possible that we could remove nuclear weapons from this earth. If that would if that were to happen, if that were to happen, the much ridiculed figure of Trump would end up trumping all of them. would end up trumping all of them and turning this whole thing around on its head and becoming one of the most revered leaders of our time. He would love that because his vanity would be tickled. But it would be shocking, wouldn’t it, to admit that he was effective in the end and he had a meaning to his life, a

00:22:06 real meaning, bringing the peace that John Kennedy dreamed of and Franklin Roosevelt dreamed of. And Abe Lincoln too in his lifetime and before that so many others who have been known to history for their love of peace. I think now is the time. Of course, there are problems. What about China? What about what would they do? And Israel, of course, they do what they want. They don’t pay attention to anybody. They control American policy. They say, there’s France. And of course, Britain, the war dog, has been an

00:22:50 aggressor for centuries now. and a particular enemy of Russia today. India and Pakistan are almost at war. Impossible. So all these things, these are gigantic impossibilities. But remember, if we begin somewhere, one baby step at a time, the first move, one classic agreement between Russia and the United States and the rest becomes easier. Believe me, because in the end, as John Kennedy told us in June of 1963, before clo before before closing out his life, we all breathe the same air. We all inhabit this small

00:23:56 planet. We all cherish our children’s futures. And we are all mortal. These great words spoken without notice by Kennedy at American University ring truer than ever to me. Please let us put the power of good over the power of evil. Let us conquer the beast in ourselves. It can be done. Thank you. Thank you very much Mr. Oliver. Uh let’s take a seat all of us. We have a lot of question. Um now I wanted to talk about about the past your past. Mr. Oliver, you volunteered for the Vietnam War. uh were a private infantry man on

00:25:02 the front lines and got injured. You have many awards. What’s from what happened in Vietnam particularly changed your personal views on life? Well, I would say everything you know I don’t know. You don’t you can’t My life changed and and I I made three movies about Vietnam. I think you see the results. My perceptions changed. My values of life changed. Everything changed. Uh the Vietnamese war was very cruel, one-sided. We had all the technology on our side. It was truly a people’s war against a

00:25:44 machine. It was one of the ugliest wars I’ve ever It was the only war I’ve seen, but it was ugly. Ugly. And I hope it’ll never be repeated again. But we see a lot of it already going on. I would also like to further refer to the history after the Euromaidan. You released a film about those events uh in Ukraine about their origins? Why did you decide to focus on this topic and did you already understand then where it would lead? Well, let me say I produced it. I didn’t direct it. It was directed by It was

00:26:24 directed by Ukrainian Igor Lapatonic. Igor uh brought me up to date on the situation in Ukraine. Other people did too. I saw I talked to a lot of different Ukrainians but also Russians and tried to understand the situation. He came to it in about 20 after the uh coup d’eta in 2014 about 2016. We started to investigate it and it was a crooked deal. The whole thing was a crooked deal because in the United States they never really acknowledged that there was a coup d’eta that was managed by America.

00:27:05 Never. So the whole thing sucked. And by the way, when the documentary came out, it was taken off the air by the American networks. It was put on ultimately returned on YouTube. it returned on YouTube and it was it’s been around but you have to basically go to obscure alternate channels and sometimes you see it on YouTube all a lot of my documentaries have been removed uh Castro Chavez Putin but you can see them you can see them but it’s still very difficult to break through to the mainstream none of

00:27:42 them have been advertised properly for It’s frustrating. You know, it’s frustrating to make movies this way. I hope you understand. It’s not easy, but it’s very important that these movies get made. Continuing on this topic, continuing from what you just said, you interviewed Vladimir Putin, talked with Fidel Castro, Hugo Chavez, and other world leaders whose positions differ from what the West broadcasts. Uh why did you consider it important to talk to them? Because we don’t hear them because we

00:28:22 don’t we don’t get that point of view in our country. So the best I can do to really bring something new to the public is to show them in let them talk and don’t interpret them. Just ask them and let them express what is going on from their point of view and Let the people react. Nothing like the truth clears up the uh confusions. So uh you know what it’s freedom and thank you. Uh I invite you to ask a question. I am sure there are some. You can do it in Russian. We have set up translation. Please.

00:29:15 Hello, my name is Vesta Hobi. I represent the city of Kazan, Republic of Tatarstan. I have the following question. You film a lot of movies on historical themes. So, how do you maintain a balance between artistic fiction and authenticity while remaining interesting for the audience? The balance between artistic um fiction and authenticity. Meanwhile, being interesting, remaining interesting for the [Applause] viewer. Okay, that’s a very tough question because uh first of all, if you’re making a documentary, that’s you

00:29:59 have to be honest, straightforward. When you make a feature film, uh you play to an audience that is there to be entertained. So your entertainment has to pre has to is crucial. But at the same time if you sell out if you distort the content that is wrong and a lot of people do that in order to make entertainment but don’t do that. Don’t do that. You must respect the need for entertainment, the desire to have a catharsis, to have emotions, to have a climax. But at the same time, don’t sell out the content.

00:30:48 Thank you. Let’s have the next question. Raise your hand. Is this Hello, my name is Alexandra Porto. I am from the Leninrad region and uh and I have a question for you. What topics or events from the recent past in your opinion deserve to be filmed? Thank you. I tried to make u several movies with I never got in my lifetime. I had ran into walls. I I made I spent about two years maybe two and a half years on Martin Luther King couldn’t get it made because I was telling the truth about Martin Luther

00:31:40 King and I was showing that he had a very very human a human life he was vulnerable in many ways and he had a relationships with women but because of the church and because of the puritanism of America. I couldn’t get it made. So, that was very disappointing. I also worked on a I also worked on the Mi story, Mili massacre story in Vietnam. That did not get made. That was a I was very close to making it three weeks from shooting. We built the we built the village. Everything didn’t work. the they the concept of a

00:32:21 massacre made by the United States Army was difficult for them to finance and in fact horrified them. The truth about Mili is so awful. You know 500 plus villagers were killed in cold blood. There was not one shot fired, not one shot fired by them. There was no VC there. There was no NVA in the village. It was all civilians and they were brutally murdered. That was quite a story. But I had a great movie because I had a great I had two story lines and it was an investigation. Actually, the United

00:33:00 States Army investigated itself and they found the truth. The man who investigated it, Colonel Piers, General Piers, I’m sorry. General Piers was a three-star general. He was He didn’t believe it happened. He said, “Ah, it’s all bullshit.” He went in. He actually was an honest investigator. And it goes to show you the truth is a good thing. He woke up. He saw what happened. He understood by talking to people. He was horrified. He wrote it all up in a beautiful report which has now been classified and it’s very hard to find.

00:33:37 But read that report. It’s a beautiful report because it reveals the horror of that day. And you know what happened? They prosecuted two men. One was declared innocent and Lieutenant Cali was punished, but he was pardoned by Richard Nixon right away. He brought indictments against like 20 other men, including the general, including the the general of the whole division, 199. He brought colonels, majors, he brought them all into in into indictment, but none of them were indicted by the army. They were backed

00:34:15 away from him. Every single one of them. So the whole thing was burn. It came up to nothing. It just was a big, it was heartbreaking. Peers never got his fourth star. He was promised his fourth star and he disappeared from history. It shows you that honest people sometimes don’t win and they sometimes disappear from history. But he was a good man and he tried and that’s very important to remember. He tried. We don’t forget. Thank you very much. Thank you. Let’s have one more question please. Over here

00:34:54 on the right in these stands. My name is Voleta Vasilva. I represent the city of Patigorsk and I have a question for you. What is freedom of speech for you? And uh have you encountered censorship when creating your films? Commercial censorship. They never tell you it’s censorship. They tell you it doesn’t play. It’s not something people want to see. They they give you a hundred different reasons not to make the movie. Censorship is all all around us. If you look at what happened just recently with

00:35:30 the Biden administration and they started to censor criticism, you cannot hear criticism of the Ukraine war in America. You cannot you cannot hear criticism of of the policies. In fact, the Trump administration has censored is Israel criticism. You cannot criticize Israel for their massacres in Gaza and the West Bank. You cannot they call it anti-semitism. So, you know, uh it’s everywhere in the world, but it’s it’s it is in America, too. Don’t we don’t I you know it’s very hard. France has the same problems. England certainly

00:36:24 has the same problems. There is no place in the world maybe uh maybe Greenland I don’t know where it is completely free. Thank you. Let’s continue. We can ask a few more questions please. Hello. Hello, my name is Sophia Belova. I represent the Swedlov College of Art and Culture specializing in theatrical creativity. I have a question. Where does it start? Film. How do you start working on your project? How do you come up with the theme, write the script, and create artistic images? And what is the

00:37:03 main advice you could give to a beginning director? Uh, you have to work out of passion and love. That’s all I can say. Uh because there’s so much rejection, so much difficulty and if you have honesty in your body, a love of truth, it’s very important to follow it. Of course, you don’t have to do that. You can al you can do it just for the reasons of theater. Some people go into theater because they just want to have fun and comedy and this and that and they do a good job and There are many things that

00:37:41 are written and played for fun and I don’t want to you know the search for truth is not the only reason but I think the great drama has come from that. Thank you. Let’s have another question please. Right here in the center. Good afternoon. My name is Dennis Sergey Domin. I am a math and computer science teacher at school 66 in the city of Kiraov. I have a question. In your opinion, which films by Russian directors about historical events hold a special place in world cinema? Oh, well, you know, sure. I mean, I go back to the

00:38:23 uh you know, the Ivan Nepski, Alexander Nevki, I’m sorry, Ivan the Terrible, all that stuff. Yeah, we saw the uh you know more recently I mean I I see movies from every country in the world. I don’t Russian movies stand out. I mean I was never a fan of uh uh of uh the uh science fiction guy Tarovski. I never liked his movies but you know I understand the the the mentality. There’s a there’s a realness uh and a hardness to this unscentimentality to Russian cinema that really is powerful and I admire

00:39:15 that and after all you know well Stannislavski comes from Russia so obviously he had tremendous influence on American theater. Thank you. Let’s continue. Any more questions, please? Good day. My name is Tina Valina. I represent the exemplary theater studio Patorsk use. And I have a question for you. If you had the opportunity to travel to the past and interview any historical figure, who would it be and why? Thank you. [Applause] I would have loved to interviewed Alexander among others to there’s hundreds of characters. I mean

00:40:02 don’t ask [Music] me. Okay, then let’s move on to the next question. We’ll finish with Alexander the Great, please. Hello, my name is Albert, city of Moscow. You constantly urge American politicians to change their viewpoint, change their behavior, and stop by any means striving to maintain control over the world. Under what conditions can the United States administration recognize that our world is multipolar? That is the question, isn’t it? And if we don’t, we’re in trouble. The world is in trouble. If we don’t, if we

00:40:48 do, the world has a shot. Brief and clear. Thank you. Let’s continue. We have more questions, please. Over here. Good afternoon. My name is Paulina Perkova. I am a student at the faculty of foreign languages in the city of Donetsk. Donetsk State University. My question is this. There is censorship and there is self censorship when a person consciously limits themselves in what they say. So is there something you don’t speak about? Where is the boundary of your self censorship? Of course. Of course. I mean the fear

00:41:30 humanity the concept that you I’m very conscious of of uh what the things I do and realize that sometimes I go too far. I’m pushing things. That’s my nature. I push I push and uh often I’m very self-critical. I’ve been uh I’ve been in in my hotel the other day. I was writing working on a new script I want to make and talked to my producer Fernando and I told him I I can’t I this is the I’ve been on this thing for a year and there are things I hate in it and I wish I could write better. So, you know, I’m always being

00:42:15 uh self-critical. It’s and it gets worse when you’re older. But by the way, the material is pretty risque. The material is very [Applause] Thank you. Let’s have one final question, please. My name is Petra. I am a 10th grade media class student at school 2,120. And I have a question for you. Artificial intelligence has penetrated all areas of our lives. How do you use it in your work? Not yet. I tried. One time I looked at it. It’s scary because it takes from you too. You know, they steal my style. My

00:43:06 style is my style. I don’t want my style to be copied. On the other hand, how do I stop it? You can’t stop it. But I I I just feel my own purity is at stake. And I I I don’t want to go and say I’m going to what’s uh let me write this in a Steven Spielberg way so I can make a lot of money. Thank you very much. We had a very interesting unusual conversation. Uh in any case we two more questions. Let’s ask uh two short questions. Yes. Hello. My name is Yoni Nadana. I am from Tum and I would like to ask the following

00:43:58 question. In American literature and cinema, the topic of what would have happened if the Vietnam War hadn’t occurred is often discussed. In your opinion, how would the history of the USA have changed? Well, the United States for one, I think, would have been a far better nation, far far more. You realize how how damaging that war was to the to the United States. I mean, it corrupted and coarsened a generation. So many people came back bitter, hostile, and a civil war. Basically, I if you look at my movies, I

00:44:39 pictured a civil war that was going on inside our own country and I see evidence of it still. That civil war never went away. It’s polarized. If anything, it’s polarized. If the United States had been the kind of country like let’s say like Thailand or Switzerland or or or Norway or Sweden or Denmark or even France, you know, but it wasn’t meant to be. America was a very violent country. Very violent from the beginning. From the beginning, we every Indian that existed. Every every treaty was broken. We never

00:45:26 kept our work. We embraced slavery obviously in a very ugly way which led to a tremendous civil war with a lot of a lot of it was the most violent war we ever had. So America is a shoot first think second kind of country. Thank you for the answer. Now let’s have the final question and wrap up please. Hello, my name is Nikita Tomeirrov. I am a student at the physics and mathematics school in the city of Tum. I would like to ask a question. Who can you name as your main teacher and inspiration and

00:46:09 why did this person influence you? Oh yeah. many many uh gez I you know uh listen I mentioned him negatively but certainly Spielberg did a very interesting job uh with uh with the with the Lincoln movie with that was very well done and although he goes sometimes into the patriotic mode there was something honest about Lincoln which I really appreciated very special movie uh there’s many good movies. Uh I very much liked uh the recent recent movies. Uh I liked very much uh Wicked. Okay, you’re going

00:46:53 to laugh. You know the movies are movies. There’s I I’m entertainment and I enjoy them. I love musicals. I tried to make Avita for a long time. Avita was a musical that I loved. I wanted to make came very close. never happened. You know, I did The Doors, which about music. I like crime movies. I did gangster movies. Uh Naturalborn Killers, Savages, U-Turn. I mean, I like I like I don’t just do political movies. I like mix it up. [Music] I wish I could have done more, but I had problems because I kept fighting the

00:47:38 system. Yeah. Yeah. Well, uh I one of my uh teachers was Marty Scorsesei who’s good, very good. He uh and also uh he was at NYU at New York University. Uh you know, you name the artist and I’ll just tell you yes, I love you know and you are my inspiration. Thank you. Thank you. Spicy. [Applause] Okay. What? Yes. Let’s wrap it up. Thank you very much. Thank you for the conversation. Thank you, Mr. Oliver. Let us also thank Mr. Sanchez for his help. Thank you for helping. Thank you for coming. Thank you

00:48:34 for this wonderful conversation. Thank you very much. This is a place for us, for you. So once again, applause for our guest, filmmaker, screenwriter, producer Oliver Stone here at the knowledge first marathon. Mr. Sanchez, thank you. Thank you.