>>Doesn't know. . . much.
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>Of course, that would be true if the story came from anywhere other than the Internet's most popular satire source.

Satire, by definition, attacks real-life phenomena. I wouldn't be surprised if this guy didn't actually exist, or if he actually read Dostoyevsky but didn't care, whatever.

The point is that Hollywood is known for things like this. I know of a number of cases where complete ignorance is displayed, specially when it comes to being aware of the existence of the rest of the world. Here's a few:

- A movie in the sixties, happens in an Arabian bazaar, all the shops have cyrillic signs on them. A bunch of Yugoslav reporters happened to be on the site, and made a remark about this, and the crew's comment was "never mind, nobody here will notice".

- Recent edition of a Dracula movie (don't know the names, just returned the tape, but sure were famous), the locals speak with Russian accent, specially Dracula himself. He calls himself Draculya, pronouncing a perfect Russian ly. Not a trace of any Romanian accent; actually, the Romanian pronunciation (if neighbors would please correct me if I've got it wrong) is DracUl (the u being short and accented as in "butcher"), with no final "a".

- In any of the movies where the narrative happens in Russia, they never manage to pronounce this ly sound (or any of the Russian soft consonants, for that matter; same goes for most of the Slavic words in general)

- movies allegedly happening in Europe, all the doors still have doorknobs. In Europe (except maybe Britain) the doors have handles.

I could had compiled a much longer list if I had the inclination while watching those movies (which I didn't, so this is just off the top of my head).