U; HULU also has three episodes of "The Lost Evidence" well worth a look; http://www.hulu.com/watch/223241 You can also catch this on YOUTUBE;...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oT8BQ-n5wnc I am an episode and a half into this Russian TV series and already I am seriously involved; and THANKS...
It does explore the horrendous man made famine in it's worst days, and is NOT a movie for the thinskinned. The PAIN comes at you like a freight...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5iHJDnJcX8 I am three minutes into this one-courtesy of HULU-and I LIKE. It seems the country that produced...
It sounds like amateur work to me-if this was professional there should have been a lot more casualties. AND the police would not have so easily...
Here's a Yiddish Partisan Song from the era (there were 20-30 thousand Jewish Partisans fighting in Eastern Europe);...
Excellent film. Here is a GPW song that captures something of the stealth and ferocity of the Partisan Wars. It also is as good an explanation...
I love the"Geronimo" movie also though it plays fast and loose with the history. Both "Defiance" and "Geronimo" are Hollywoodisms but...
Which explains the wild fighting desperation of those Belarussians who could get arms-NAZI meant to kill everybody and you might as well go down...
It was probably much worse in Belarus-which was, after all, at the very epicenter of the war....
I didn't say it was a pretty story. The NKVD Armies that followed the RKKA proved to be as bad-or much worse-than NAZI in parts of the Soviet...
Nobody "chose" communism in eastern Europe after the war. They were just told they were communists and those who openly disagreed, were shot or...
Here's a great book on totalitarianism written in a fictional format; http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/magazine/vasilygrossman/ Grossman-like...
Quite a few are-but the rest got dragged along into NAZI idealism whether they would or not. After 1933 the only real option became...
"Led astray" simply does not apply to NAZIism after 1933. JEffinMNUSA
Zhukov definitely-if for only one word and that word is "MOSCOW." JeffinMNUSA
So the drama is reaching some wrong conclusions? Yes it would seem that way if they are presenting the whole train wreck as the result of some...
Tamino; The Allied occupiers in the post war era finally ended up throwing up their hands and prosecuting a few officials and some of the more...
Gebigsjaeger; I once asked myself that same question; what would have I done if I had been born in that most horrendous of situations? The answer...
Well nothing got done around this house until I got through this whole series and even subscribed to HULU. I cannot say enough good about this...