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Title: Blatent Pro-Communist Propaganda
Review: This WWII era film is about the most fraudulent picture of Stalin's Russia to ever come out of Hollywood. When you consider the volume of negative information that has come out of the former Soviet Union, this picture is surrealistic in it's bucolic picture of Soviet life on the verge of WWII. In point of fact, the peasants in the Ukraine welcomed the German Army with flowers. They had been so brutalized by Stalin that they actually thought (for about five minutes) that they were being liberated. Then the Germans turned out to be as brutal as the Bolshevics. It is hard to believe that the Cold War began just three years after this film was made. If you see it or buy it, view it as a double feature with "Enemy at the Gates", a recently made film that is extremely close to the truth. No wonder McCarthy investigated Hollywood.
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