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Originally Posted by Quoth
Something that might suggest the value of Fantasy Genre. Fairy tales even in olden days sometimes were a serious way of smuggling truth past the "rulers".
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True. Overthrowing all those Dark Lords? Can't allow that. (Had Tolkien put his Mordor in the west, the LOTR would have been quite popular with the regime, I'm sure). Science fiction was considered safer and we even had some Western authors translated - Asimov, Clarke, Simak, for example. No Star Wars, naturally. We managed to watch that via Finnish TV, which was visible in Northern Estonia at the time (thank you, Finland), but I was too young to draw any parallels with real life.