• Flying Squid@lemmy.worldM
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    1 year ago

    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.

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      1 year ago

      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.

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      1 year ago

      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.

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      1 year ago

      Hot take that’s his best film. Not that the rest aren’t great(Barry Lyndon aside)