"If Kolchak had won, international society would make Russia become a democratic country."
Oh yeah, like international society that is making Afghanistan and Iraq a democratic country? Yeah? You idiot?
As Churchill said:
"Were they [the Allies] at war with Soviet Russia? Certainly not; but they shot Soviet Russians at sight. They stood as invaders on Russian soil. They armed the enemies of the Soviet Government. They blockaded its ports, and sunk its battleships. They earnestly desired and schemed its downfall. But war -- shocking! Interference -- shame! It was, they repeated, a matter of indifference to them how Russians settled their own internal affairs. They were impartial -- Bang! (4)"
You understand why illiterate peasants and workers rise up? Do you? Do you know why there are revolutions? Do you understand? People were STARVING, and the Tsar was STARVING them. Peasants, they are neither gullible nor unconservative. They did not sign up to fight for the Red Army just because of propaganda, but because they saw with their own eyes the corruption of the Empire, the massive starvation and suffering of the people. Life for the average Russian, NOT TO MENTION the average non-Russian ruled by the Russian Empire, was HELL.
And fighting a Civil War is HELL. It is similar to the misery the US forces visited on Iraq and Afghanistan. Counterinsurgency against the people means MASSACRE OF CIVILIANS. Think of the way the Americans massacred Vietnamese villagers, threw kids down wells and tossed grenades after em, or slaughtered disgruntled Korean villagers in the Korean War. This is why Kolchak demanded that one of his generals, and I quote, "follow the example of the Japanese who, in the Amur region, had exterminated the local population." Did this movie depict these atrocities, whether they were "necessary" or not? No! They threw in a *beep* love plot for godsakes.
And I'm sorry, but how naive are you to even suggest the International forces, the Empires of the day, would've had the democratic and humanitarian development of the Russians any where NEAR their priorities? Empires run on profit, any capitalist will tell you that. Again, see what the "International Community" is doing to Afghanistan and Iraq, or hell, since we're talkin about Russia, how about those nice lil market reforms that absolutely DEVASTATED Russia in the 90s, financed by all kinds of "Democratic" countries. *beep*
This movie is obviously propaganda, as are most movies, and there's nothing wrong with a movie being propaganda, just there is something wrong with the kind of historic revisionism that paints monsters as lovers and heroes. Well, as they say, the victors write the history, so of course Kolchak got a nice lil whitewashing. But there are 1 Billion people in the world that do not have adequate access to water. Hundreds of Millions are starving. Little brown slaves make your clothes and work in dangerous Third World coalmines 18 hours a day, inequality is rapidly increasing, and what little justice and hope there was for humanity is disintegrating.
But things cannot remain the same, and that's where our hope lies. It just doesnt lie in people like you, the so-called "International Community", or the ideology of movies like this.
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