This flick is set BEFORE the Corrupt Job-killing Commies merged . . .

Rating: 9/10 (19 November 2017)

. . . with the Corrupt Job-killing Capitalists, sending Civilization down the Road of Perdition with a couple "World Wars," countless other conflicts, the Great Depression, the Holocaust, and rampant Global Warming. The heroes of BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN never set themselves up as Fat Cat One Per Centers, along the lines of Lenin, Hoover, Stalin, Rockefeller, Mao, Buffet, and Putin. All they want is maggot-free meat after a hard day's work. But just as the duplicitous honchos of Ronnie "The Gypper" Reagan's American Administration declared maggots to be suitable condiments for the USA's public school lunch population, POTEMKIN director Sergei Eisenstein accurately depicts these Death Worms as an impending staple of the Red Commie Oligarchical Fat Cat Paradise. While Putin and his fellow Trillionaires chow down on cake and caviar, Russia's 99 Per Centers are reduced to a POTEMKIN-like diet of "borscht" (aka, maggot stew). Mr. Eisenstein lays the groundwork for American choreographer Busby Berkeley's cinematic masterpiece--"The Forgotten Man" marching number--with his scenes of Odessa on Parade. And POTEMKIN's famed Baby Buggy Massacre foreshadows the upcoming wanton slaughter of World War One's Defrauded PENSION (NOT "Bonus") Army Heroes--along with their wives and kiddies--near the Capitol Steps in Washington, DC, at the rifles of Herb Hoover, "Black Jack" Pershing, Ike Eisenhower, Dougie MacArthur, and George S. Patton, who slew the 'this' out of We True Blue Loyal Patriotic Normal Average 99 Per Center Progressive Union Label Americans "like 'carp' through a goose."