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White House: Russia is executing soldiers who refuse to follow orders
(www.reuters.com)
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There's a Stanley Kubrick movie about this that takes place in WWI called Paths of Glory. It's really haunting.
Russia's morality is back in the 1910s.
You don't even have to go that far back.
Enemy at the gates, Both movie (2001) and book (1973), give a graphic depiction of Stalin's Not a step back command, Order No. 227, where soldiers were shot for refusing orders to die where they stand and not retreat in WW2.
There was no arrest, trail and formal execution as seen in Paths of Glory. The troops had the choice to be shot by the Germans in front of them or by the USSR Political Officers behind them.
Enemy at the Gates is a decent flick, but it’s pretty inaccurate. I wouldn’t be citing it as a source on what actually happened on the eastern front.
I was replying to a comet about a movie, so I replied with one. I also linked order 227, which is accurate.
If you have a link that you feel is more accurate please post it.
I’m not disputing the content of order 227, I’m disputing the historical accuracy of the film. Yes, they did have supply issues, penal battalions, and blocking units in the Soviet army, but not like it was depicted in the film.
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/3pcjfv/comment/cw54qf3/?context=3
Enemy At The Gates is utter propagandistic and asinine bullcrap - you'll get more historical accuracy from Mel Gibson's crappy "historical" movies than that one.
Order No. 227 mostly only applied to high-level officers - in reality, the vast majority of retreating soldiers caught by barrier troops were merely returned to their units. There are records of these things - no matter what western historians assume.
You say there are records, but even right now Russia is intentionally keeping a lot of its dead soldiers go unrecorded (ie MIA instead of KIA) just so they can keep payouts lower and more easily downplay losses. Doesn't mean the same happened in WW2, but how do we know it didn't either?
It's really simple... it's difficult to keep things secret when an entire country is suddenly involved in a war that's literally on it's doorstep. It's the same reason so many people in the US still don't have the foggiest clue what the US actually did in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia - it's much easier to keep secrets when the war is happening somewhere else. So yes... despite what western historians will have you believe, the Soviet Union of 1942 did have typewriters - lots and lots of them, as well as people to operate them. The massive losses the USSR suffered couldn't be kept a secret - by 1942, the Soviet Union was literally filled with millions of first-hand witnesses. Stalin also didn't have to lie to keep people in the Soviet Union fighting - the true nature of the genocidal Nazi colonialist program (Operation Barbarossa was no mere military operation) was pretty damn self-evident by that stage, too. If you read actual accounts of people who witnessed it all you get a far better understanding of it than the hot garbage alt-history Enemy At The Gates is based on - I recommend The Unwomanly Face of War.
This description applies to the war with Ukraine as well. Weird that you think this is a point in your favor.
No, it doesn't. It's a war somewhere else. You think the German populace knew what was really going on in Poland? You think South Africans really knew what was going on in Angola and Mozambique? How many USians do you know that is very clued up on how the (so-called) "War On Drugs" is playing out in Mexico?
Please think before you post.
If you don't think Ukraine is on Russia's doorstep I suggest you brush up on your geography.
Do you require a geography lesson on southern Africa? Eastern Europe, maybe? Howzabout Mexico?
I guess this...
...is really hard for you?
Alright, it's pretty clear to me you don't actually care about the truth of the matter here, so I don't really see a point in engaging further.
Feel free to have the last word. Best of luck to you.
Lol! Why? Did you actually learn what a world map is and now you need to run away from this argument? Is that it?
Ohhh, Braveheart VS Enemy at the Gates.
Sounds like a drinking game where everybody dies..
The original Call of Duty (2003) featured a level about the battle of Stalingrad where you're given a rifle but no ammo to start the level. That has always stuck with me.
Well no it was the other way 'round
Yeah they gave em a clip and an order to follow someone with a rifle and pick it up when they inevitably get shot.
That's why you shouldn't rely on crappy war-crime training simulators for your history knowledge.
It was obviously imitating Enemy at the Gates.
That was the Spielberg one, right? Opening level was intense enough for me.
That was a heavy movie. But definitely worth a watch.
Has Russia's morality ever been above that? Apart from some minor glitches in the system seen as chaotic, its history goes from one dictator to another.
Russian history is one harsh leader after another. No wonder their such hard people.
Hard alcoholic
Before the Mongols married into Moscow royalty. That's how far back you would have to go.
"And then it got worse." Russian history in a nutshell.
Hot take that’s his best film. Not that the rest aren’t great(Barry Lyndon aside)
Bruh wtf, Barry Lyndon is fire
Just not my cup of tea, the cinematography is great I just could not care any less about the characters. Glad you enjoyed it