Movie"s origin


Is Burnt by the Sun based on a book or real story?

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It's based on a real political situation. During the 1930s a number of acclaimed Soviet military commanders were executed as part of the so-called Case of Marshal Tukhachevsky, or The Case of Trotskyist Anti-Soviet Military Organization. Some military commanders were accused of planning of a coup d'état. Even though the conspiracy did exist, it involved a small group of people; many others (like Konstantin Rokossovsky) were trialed without any reason, and this happened just before the World War II, so the results were catastrophic for the army.

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