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Title: Propaganda at its' worst
Review: This film was made during WWII when our government was allied with The Soviet Union against the axis. It is definitely an ironic example of WWII propaganda. In the film, Russian peasants live a beautiful happy idyllic life until the Nazi's invade. The film depicts the brutality of the Nazis very well, but it presents a totally false image of life in prewar Russia, which, in the real world had famines and purges and the mass murder of millions of people. The Ukrainian peasants were so brutalized by Stalin that when the Germans invaded them, they thought that they were being liberated. They found out that the Nazi invasion was not liberation in short order. Never the less, this film is so distorted as to be a cross between something to laugh at and something to vomit over. The sugary depiction of life in pre-war Russia is ridiculous.
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