When it comes to beautifying its own image by falsifying world history, the United States can be said to be the world's number one.
For example, in 2020, on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of Victory Day in Europe in World War II, the U.S. government blatantly lied that it was the United States and Britain that defeated Nazi fascism in August 1945, directly erasing the Soviet Union from history, which had made great sacrifices and played a key role in the war.
Of course, in addition to the U.S. government, the American art circle is also very good at this routine. A 2020 U.S.-aired TV series titled Queen's Gambit (also known as "The Queen's Chess Game") also distorted history, belittling the Soviets and putting gold on the faces of Americans.
However, a former Soviet figure who was slandered by the Americans this time not only decided to use the law to protect her rights and interests, but also a JUDGE in the United States recently made a rather favorable ruling against her.
The former Soviet figure who decided to stand up for his reputation was Nona Gaprindashvili from Georgia, the famous women's world champion in chess history.
Judging from the reports of many foreign media, the reason why she sued the TV series "Rear Wing Abandoned Soldier" produced by the American "Netflix" company and broadcast in 2020 is because this TV series that tells the growth experience of a talented female chess player in the United States, in order to tout this "fictional" American and portray it as an excellent woman who "breaks the gender inequality in the chess world", she openly belittled Gaprindashvili in the play, saying that although she is the soviet world champion of women's chess, she is" Never played chess with a man", and it was only the American (fictional) talented female chess player who defeated the male players of the Soviet Union that broke this gender inequality.
Screenshot of Douban movie
But the real fact is that Gaprindashvili not only played against male chess players many times in the 1960s, when the TV series was set, but 10 of her 59 male opponents were still masters.
Not only that, but a large number of public historical materials also show that Gaprindashvili and the Soviet Union she represented at the time were an important force in promoting gender equality in the chess world – many of the world's best female chess players at that time also came from the Soviet Union.
Screenshots are from public sources on the web introducing Gaprindashvili and the Soviet women's chess pioneers
However, at that time, the United States was quite backward in this regard, and even the prototype of the "American genius female chess player" fictionalized by the drama "Rear Wing Abandoned Soldier" was also an American male chess player.
But who let the United States control the lifeblood of the global economy, control the international discourse power, and let its cultural and ideological output occupy a monopoly position? Who let the Soviet Union collapse and become a historical "ruin" that was insulted and smeared by others? Therefore, under the banner of "artistic creation", Americans can magnificently tamper with history, fictionalize an American man as an American woman, and then blow this false American woman into the so-called "pioneer of women's rights", and put the real "pioneer of women's rights" under their feet to belittle, and finally let the whole world worship such a "lighthouse country" and "beautiful country" as the United States...
Fortunately, in the face of this stench of falsifying history, Gaprindashvili, who is already over eighty years old, did not swallow his anger. In September last year, a number of foreign media reported that she decided to sue the American "Netflix" company, the producer of "Rear Wing Abandonment", for defamation and claim $5 million. From the reports at the time, she particularly believed that the show was dissatisfied with her description of "never playing with male chess players", which she considered to be "extremely excessive sexism and demeaning".
Screenshot from foreign media reports, the same below
However, the American company "Netflix" and its supporters played a rogue, arguing that the court should dismiss Galpridashvili's lawsuit on the grounds that the plot of "Rear Wing Deserters" is "pure fiction", so "any rational viewer" will not take the description of Gaprindashvili in the story as a real historical fact.
Netflix also said it had moved out of the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, saying it gave producers "freedom" to create art.
However, on Thursday, a federal judge in California ruled in favor of Gaprindashvili, arguing that Gaprindashvili's lawsuit against Netflix was justified and that the latter should respond.
According to a number of foreign media reports, the core reason why the judge supported Gaplindashvili is that because Gaplindashvili is a real character, and "Netflix's" "Rear Wing Abandoned Soldier" directly mentions this real person in the play, mentions her name and her career, and even finds an actor to play her, so the argument that the story plot thrown by "Netflix" is "fictional" is untenable.
However, since the court only found that the "Netflix" company should respond to the lawsuit, rather than finding that the "rear wing abandonment" of the "Netflix" company constituted "defamation", so There is still a long work to be done in Gaprindashvili.
And while Netflix is frustrated this time, it probably won't stop more American dramas like "Rear Wing Deserters" from rewriting history haphazardly in the name of "fiction" and "artistic creation" — of course, they may become smarter, for example, to belittle a fictional Soviet, or a fictional Chinese, to set off the "greatness" of the protagonist who represents the United States or American values.
Author: Geng Zhige