No, no, it is obvious that the ECU should act as a close alliance for the benefit of chess.
Glorifying violence is terrible. Simulating sex is nothing - it's something so impersonal really.
It just seemed to me to be a great story, set back in its time but something that seemed to have relevance for our time. Now that the film is coming out, it looks like we're back in another time where repression of expression is all the rage.