Las Sandinistas!

Sad to see blatant Marxist propaganda mainstreamed and passed into mass social consumption without comment. This is a glorification of Marxist guerillas as the Sandinistas at the time were a Marxist-Leninist regime allied with and supplied by the USSR. This documentary goes out of its way to avoid acknowledging the ideology of the movement and who backs it and instead glorifies a group of women as morally outraged at the abuses of the Somoza regime and the condition of the poor who "did something" about it. This glossed-over romanticization of Marxism is a horror to behold and it could have been released by Progress Publishers, the Soviet Union's old propaganda mill. Garbage like this in my younger years actually duped me into radical leftism and it's very disheartening to see it playing free (currently) on Amazon Prime Video for subscribers like myself. The Sandinistas, after the demise of the USSR, sort of changed its posture and joined the Socialist International, where they were eventually evicted in the last few years due to the S.I.'s inability to deal with the regime's ongoing human rights abuses and disappearances of opponents which still occur today along with the rigged elections where Daniel Ortega's highest government posts are filled by closest family members. At the best, all this film is good for is as an illustration to young people how Marxists try to pass themselves off and dupe viewers. It's like a warped recruiting film. Sad this garbage is allowed listing here and gets aired by Amazon Prime and Netflix, and who knows who else. Imagine if videos made by admirers of the Third Reich were allowed to air their glorifying garbage all over mainstream media and have their videos rated by Rotten Tomatoes viewers. Marxist regimes had the highest death tolls in human history and garbage like this doesn't even have so much as a disclaimer. I'm gobsmacked this garbage is allowed here. What on earth?

Not only is this film politically on point, but it captures a rarely seen perspective of everyday women who, when challenged, raised the level of what's possible for all of society. Moving inspirational and well shot.