Netflix is just a CIA plot, says Kremlin

Lars Mikkelsen plays evil Russian Viktor Petrov alongside Kevin Spacey in the Netflix series House of Cards
Lars Mikkelsen plays evil Russian Viktor Petrov alongside Kevin Spacey in the Netflix series House of Cards
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The Kremlin has accused the global film streaming company Netflix of being part of an American plot to subvert Russian society and culture.

Vladimir Medinsky, the minister of culture who is a loyal supporter of President Putin, said that the film streaming service was on the US government payroll along with Silicon Valley giants.

He explained his theory to a Russian news service. The White House had realised “how to enter every home, creep into every television, and through that television, into the head of every person on earth, with the help of Netflix.

“It turns out that our ideological friends [the US government] understand perfectly well which is the greatest of the arts,” he said in an allusion to Lenin’s famous phrase about the