1jola: Sooner or later this film will have English subtittles and it should be interesting: Something we can agree on.
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Several high-ranking members of the Russian government have even called for a new law, based on Holocaust denial legislation in Germany, that would criminalize any reference to the Soviet Union not winning the war. I have some personal interest in this issue, which was supposed to be being brought before the Russian Parliament this summer to make it law. Anybody know if it was it passed into law? I haven't see much mention of recently?
The Moscow News Re-examining Rzhev By Adrian Blomfeld
Surely, in Russia of all places, it cannot be so hard to understand that victory is only won through great human sacrifice. Is it really that unpatriotic to praise the Soviet Union's victory but also to take a little time to recall the blood that was spilled in achieving it?
Wouldn't it actually enhance rather than belittle Russian history to suggest, as Britons like to do, that the foot soldiers of the war were "lions led by donkeys". Would it be an unconscionable idea to have a Remembrance Sunday in Russia as well as a Victory Day? Blomfeld makes a good point.
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