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Lee Heidhues 3.15.2026

Last night the blogger explored the Sy Against Stalin era 1930’s terror against the Russian people.

Tonight a documentary about the current state of affairs in Russia walked away with the Academy Award for Best Documentary feature. ‘ Mr. Nobody Against Putin’.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr_Nobody_Against_Putin

Excerpted from Deadline 3.15.2026

‘Mr. Nobody Against Putin’ Wins 2026 Oscar For Best Documentary Feature

“Mr. Nobody Against Putin is about how you lose your country. And what we saw when working with this footage, it’s that you lose it through countless small little acts of complicity,” Director David Borenstein said. “When we act complicit, when a government murders people on the streets of our major cities, when we don’t say anything, when oligarchs take over the media and control how we can produce it and consume, we all face a moral choice. But luckily, even a ‘nobody’ is more powerful than you think.”

His speech was interrupted by applause from the Dolby Theatre audience. Pavel Talankin, the 34 year old school teacher and the film’s main character, also spoke, his words translated from Russian, making an impassioned plea for peace at a time of war in the Middle East, Ukraine, and elsewhere.

“We look at the sky for shooting stars to make a very important wish. But there are countries where instead of shooting stars, they have shooting bombs and shooting drones,” he noted. “In the name of our future, in the name of all of our children, stop all of these wars now.”