TV series like Fallout are destroying Russians’ faith in a “bright future,” the presidential administration believes.

TV series like Fallout are destroying Russians’ faith in a “bright future,” the presidential administration believes.

Aleksei Semyonov, deputy head of the Presidential Administration department for monitoring and analyzing social processes, wrote in his article for the journal Gosudarstvo that thanks to contemporary cultural works, “a positive image of the future has been erased from the public consciousness.”

As examples of such works, the bureaucrat named the screen adaptation of the Fallout game series and the TV series Paradise, which show “nothing but gloom.”

In Semyonov’s opinion, Russia needs a state commission to shape the image of a “beautiful tomorrow,” just as it was in the USSR.

“In that era, there was a calibrated ideological model, and all the power of the huge state apparatus worked to form and sustain the image of a positive future. In essence, there was a systemic state commission to demonstrate the advantages of the coming order, a society of universal equality, brotherhood, and the absence of class stratification,” he proposed.