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The film leaving perhaps the worst taste in the mouth

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Victor Khomenko

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The film is "World War II: Behind Closed Doors" - two DVD set.

I strongly recommend it to anyone with interest in history. OK, so you say you are quite familiar with that part... take a look and be surprised. While some parts will look familiar, some of the politics and interplay will shock you and create strong sense of revulsion in any decent human being.

Some aspects of the story are truly shocking - the multiple elements of betrayal both at single person level as well as between the states.

The story touches on many, many, many events. Its ability to cover each one in depth is of course limited, but you can use it as a pointer - this is perhaps the film's most positive contribution.

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Didn't see in on the 'flix'.....where? * - mr grits 13:34:26 02/21/11 (2)
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- It is there: - Victor Khomenko 14:03:08 02/21/11 (1)
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  - Here! (Open in New Window)
  - mooch obliged . . . * - mr grits 16:38:30 02/21/11 (0)
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C'mon, Victor. You're a student of history. You really were shocked? - tinear 19:30:58 02/20/11 (3)
Since time immemorial, people have united to go off and slaughter men, women, elderly, and children, eliminating city after city, and not always for religion or physical necessity. Sometimes, it appears, just because they could. For the sheer exercise of power.
And then.... there's bloodlust. A not-so-careful reading of war accounts, from "The Iliad" forward, catalogues that unfortunate but all-too-real human failing.
For whatever reason, a species that can purposefully create firestorms and use nuclear bombs upon itself, has abdicated the right to surprise by its sanguinariness.
- Those are very general cynical statements, I do not subscribe to them - Victor Khomenko 06:09:36 02/21/11 (2)
  Apparently you are denying the existence of better things in life - I can not agree with that notion. I am not going to look at every story of betrayal and simply shrug my shoulders.
  
  But take a look at the film, maybe you too will get the sharply negative reaction, even with all your prior knowledge. The message I was trying to convey was not that any particular even was especially shocking or unheard of, it was the totality of the whole picture that created that effect.
  
  We also should not forget that the events of that magnitude had not happened all that often throughout the history.
  - Not cynical, at all, but rather historical fact. But I was speaking to the - tinear 09:02:27 02/21/11 (1)
    surprise factor, not the overall human pathology. Frankly, I think humans have just as great a capacity and track record of "goodness," but history doesn't record those with the same gusto. Organizations to help the poor, sick, and the elderly have existed since the earliest of recorded history, but they're not as well known as the famous battles. The history of medicine, as opposed to that of war, is far less reported, discussed, studied.
    Since it is far easier to destroy than create, obviously the scale is tipped toward the positive.
    - Once again, you are speaking in generalities. - Victor Khomenko 09:11:11 02/21/11 (0)
      Take a look at the film, then let me know if you feel it is about just another day in hell, or something that makes even hell look worse than we have known it.
      
      Again, I would like to discuss a particular film.
One was surprised at the amount of distasteful truth contained therein - Poles Apart 15:27:30 02/19/11 (0)
There were also, of course, perpetuated lies.

P.A.

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