Pionier

Now my country became a colony of the EU (ruled by Germany and France) and my people are second class citizens used mostly as a cheap work force in the factories owned by western capital. Sure, it has many advantages too. You can travel anywhere (if you have money which many people don't have) and others. The previous period offered education and health care for free, basic food was cheap, no unemployment, much lower crime rate. It was no banana republic and we didn't live in caves or on the trees as people in the west think. On other hand there was lack of more luxurious goods, limited possibilities to travel abroad and generally poorer economical situation and not enough of the so called freedom of speech. However, you could live a reasonably comfortable life without worries. Advantages and disadvantages. The main problem wasn't the ideology but a lot of corrupted people in power (something that has never disappeared and is still present). I was only a high school student when it ended so I don't call myself an expert but nobody ever tried to drag me or my relatives to the gulag or anything, I felt quite free as a kid. And we never had any serious problem with Russians (forget 1968, a small episode, the most of young people now don't even know about). Maybe that's why in my country many people doesn't agree with all that anti-Russian hysteria (that's true, Slovakia is the most pro-Russian country in the area, google it). As for me I adapted and live and work in the UK for now, getting paid better than in my country and living my capitalist life. Just that corona virus sucks. But let's not steal this thread and back to the topic. I liked the film. :-D

I totally agree. It's not black and white and I can understand that, bad things happen in the war no doubt. My grandmother told me stories how she was hiding in a cellar with her mom and others in April 1945 when there was fighting in Brno, Czechoslovakia. She was 13 y.o. that time and told me how a red army soldier had given them a bread and helped because she reminded him his daughter. So she had fond memories. Maybe it is a bias from my side that I consider the Red Army to be a liberator of my country.

Ask Finnish or Polish company or you are barking up the wrong tree here. Then you can have whatever you wish even heroic deeds of SS troops.

Please understand. You pay them money in premium shop. It's alright, me too (plus playing tanks and planes). But when you pay it's not your money anymore, it become their money. And they can spend their money however they want. Booze, women, expensive cars... or make a film. My employer as well has no right to tell me how I should spend my salary. And as for me I don't mind to see more films like this.

A nicely done short film based on real events. And yet we have some people moaning. Cry me a river, really. Is it wrong if a russian company makes a film about heroism of russian soldiers? It's their choice, don't you think? And it's their money so they can spend them as they like. Do you see a bias and you side with Germans instead? You could see a heroic gas attack from the other side too. Take your pick. As for me I liked this film. Although, yeah, dubbing could be better or replaced with subtitles.