"What galls is how together with America we defeated Hitler, and how we sympathised when Bin Laden hit them. But they go ahead and scare kids with Communists. These people have no shame," said Viktor Perov, a Communist Party member in Russia's second city of St Petersburg.
Communists said the generation born after the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union were being fed revisionist, Hollywood history. They advocated banning the Indiana Jones outright to prevent "ideological sabotage."
The film, the fourth in the hugely successful Indiana Jones series, went on release in Russian cinemas yesterday. Russian media said it was being shown on 808 screens, the widest ever release for a Hollywood movie.
