amvas said:
Hi, All
I had placed a link to the interesting review on that movie on one of the forums. It caused much discussion there.
Hope, you also will enjoy this.
http://battlefield.ru/shame/enemy/enemy.html
PS. This page are not linked anywhere on the main site....
Hello,
I'm French, I read with a great interest this url. on 60% I agree with this article. But problem is that on our western side we had had too propaganda.
The political Commissar is the dark side of Stalinism, the men who sent people to Goulag or in front of an Execution Squad. because you are a traitor to motherland Russia.
For me USSR was a dream when I was young ( 10 year in french PC), I remember a russian film about WW2, 'Letjat zhuravli' . A very good film.
For Westerner it is difficult to understand what represent the great patriotic war except if you have interrest in history.
For westener USSR was a big prison with no human right, no consumption goods, corruption, and personality cult.
So soldier are sent to front line under pressure of NKVD, there was no true heroism.
They just forgot Napoleon 1812 (ouchhh it cost us hundrer of thousand deads).
It is true that the USSR was not the socialism paradise (Komunist pasdarai ?), but compared to actual situation are the people happier?
old people have diffculties to gettheir retreat fees, teacher are not well paid same for researchers. There are more and more beggars, sure there are more consumption goods but how many people could buy them ???.
I saw on TV a good french report about Michael Gorbatchov, he was doing good things but he has let USSR exploded, this is his main error ( In my own point of view). I followed the perestroika by reading each week the french edition of the
МОСКОВСКИЕ НОВОСТИ, in French "Nouvelles de Moscou"
http://www.mn.ru/.
It was a great time an for most of French leftist the hope that a very liberal socialism could be established but that hope vanished in the air.
Tovarich receive my best fraternal thought
Der WanderVladimirIllitchOulianov