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'Stranger Things' star Matthew Modine compares Donald Trump to Hitler: "It is no exaggeration"


Trump is running to be US president for a second time

“In the 1930s, Leni Riefenstahl directed the Nazi propaganda films ‘Triumph Of The Will’ and ‘Olympia,’” Modine told Entertainment Weekly in an emailed statement about Trump’s ad. Released in 1987 and adapted from the book The Short-Timers by Gustav Hasford, Full Metal Jacket dramatises the horrors of the American military during the Vietnam War. It begins at boot camp, where the strict drill instructor Gunnery Sergeant Hartman (R. Lee Ermey) relentlessly bullies new recruits into conformity and obedience.

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