Post by Jaga on May 31, 2008 9:04:46 GMT -7
I wish Eric told us more about this movie. Its first part won an Oscar. It was called "Burnt by the Sun". Now it is a second part. It talks about Stalin crimes and WWII which was called in Russia a Great Patriotic War - from Russian perspective.
here is more about it:
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/30/AR2008053003125.html?hpid=topnews
The memorialization of World War II, which Russians call the Great Patriotic War, has become an almost state-sanctified event increasingly coated in a neo-Soviet historical orthodoxy.
New high school textbooks soft-pedal Stalin's murderous brutality such as the purges that nearly crippled the military in advance of the war. The claims of neighboring Baltic countries that they were occupied, not liberated, by the Red Army are greeted with official fury.
And at a World War II conference last month, which was sponsored by the FSB, the domestic successor to the KGB, there were calls for the Russian parliament to overturn a 1989 condemnation of the 1939 secret protocol between Stalin and Adolf Hitler that carved up Poland and awarded the then-independent Baltic states to the Soviet Union.
here is more about it:
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/30/AR2008053003125.html?hpid=topnews
The memorialization of World War II, which Russians call the Great Patriotic War, has become an almost state-sanctified event increasingly coated in a neo-Soviet historical orthodoxy.
New high school textbooks soft-pedal Stalin's murderous brutality such as the purges that nearly crippled the military in advance of the war. The claims of neighboring Baltic countries that they were occupied, not liberated, by the Red Army are greeted with official fury.
And at a World War II conference last month, which was sponsored by the FSB, the domestic successor to the KGB, there were calls for the Russian parliament to overturn a 1989 condemnation of the 1939 secret protocol between Stalin and Adolf Hitler that carved up Poland and awarded the then-independent Baltic states to the Soviet Union.