FattyDingDong said:
mrstickball said:
I'd say its generally the fact that Americans don't have access to the kind of information about the war in the East as they do any other theater, maybe sans the Indochina and Chinese front. I mean, I can mention the Soviet's Manchuko campaign to my dad who loves WW2 stuff, and he had no idea.
I'd blame the education system that is generally America-centric (in the US at least), and the general stupidity of kids being taught history. We mostly only learn about our sacrifice, much as probably the Soviets only learned about WWII through the lens of the Great Patriotic war.
How many Russian-made movies and documentaries are available on WW2? I try to find as many as I can, and the sad thing is that the Germans made more about the war (being essentuially banned from doing such for decades), than the Russians did. They only made Come and See and Brest Fortress vs. literally hundreds of WW2 movies made from the American and British side. So again, most only have had the chance to learn of the Western campaigns in Africa, D-Day and so on, and the Pacific War. Its not fair, FWIW, because the Soviets did do a lot to secure an allied victory. I try to study as much as I can from the Soviet side, because its very intriguing.
I do think the whole Cold War aspect does play in - after the war, I am sure few people wanted to portray the Soviets as a wonderful savior during the war, when we hadn't yet had detente.
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Thanks my friend, you and i have the same views i wish all people knew as much you do. and did you see my comment above where i mentioned that 1/3 of Belarussia's population was gone due to the Nazis? i was refering to "Come and See" which is historicly accurate movie. I wish everyone sees that great movie.
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Right. Everyone on that front was severely effected by the war. I believe something like 80% of all military-aged men in the Soviet Union were involved in the war. Crazy stuff. I've been trying to get a good copy of Come and See, but I have yet to find one. My brother and I are huge fans of foreign-made war movies like Brest Fortress (fantastic!), Downfall, 71 Into the Fire and so on. Great stuff out there, but hard to find, from at least my experience.
And a lot of that, again, has to do with film industries worldwide. As they get larger around the world, I imagine more will be made to educate people on the sacrifices of non-Western parties in the war.
