The Soviet Story (2008): commemorating the 80th Anniversary of Operation Barbarossa (June 22, 1941)

This time on the World Express: Edvins Snore's The Soviet Story (2008): a documentary focusing on the Soviet Union's crimes against humanity to commemorate the 80th Anniversary of Operation Barbarossa (June 22, 1941).

This is a documentary that is worth watching. The first few minutes start out like the typical public high school version of WWII documentary you could have seen 10 or 15 years ago on TV but then it takes a sharp turn and focuses on the Soviet Union, so bear with it and get through the first few minutes.

It examines the immoral nature of the political philosophy of Communism, and director Edvins Snore, an Estonian, wrote his Ph.D. dissertation at the University of Latvia on the Ukrainian Holdomor Genocide (1932 to 1933), so a fair chunk of time is spent examining that event in some detail.

It has been years since I have seen it, so I don't remember exactly how it portrays World War II. In my opinion, part of the motivation for making the film was to expose the crimes against humanity the government of the Soviet Union committed up to Stalin's death in 1953. Although I cannot really remember, in my opinion, the film also criticizes the Russian Federation at the end as well.

One of the historians the documentary features is the British historian Norman Davies who teaches at Poland's Jagiellonian University which is the oldest Slavic university.

Enjoy The Soviet Story this time on the World Express!

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