Military Propaganda about the greatness and invincibility of the Russian multinational people! A fiction film about the future, in which the impending war with fascist Germany was presented to Soviet citizens:
1. We will surely and quickly win the war with little blood!
2. Stupid fascists will not even cross our borders and the war will be fought only on the territory of the enemy! Only the enemy will set foot on our land – we will drive out at once and chase out like a dog.
3. A valiant soldier of the USSR will pass without hindrance from his borders to Berlin with a checker on his horse against tanks and machine guns!
But here are the inconsistencies:
1. In the film, the war is unexpected!
Although Hitler had already marched through Europe and "conquered" Czechoslovakia, Austria, etc.
2. But the ordinary people are always ready and armed! The Soviet soldier does not surrender and does not retreat, but only goes forward, while the Germans appear to the viewer like cowards and fugitives! But! The question is: “Would poorly armed cowards and fools attack a country 10 times the size of them?” Hardly... Everything was technically and morally planned!
3. The film does not show captured or surrendered Soviet soldiers.
Although they were demoralized and unarmed by the thousands surrendered to the German captivity!
4. The idea of world revolution and the struggle of the proletariat within the fascist bloc, and of course the Communists are at their head! “Inner counter-revolution” against Hitler and his regime. But German citizens and soldiers, even though they were aware of the end and losing World War 2, believed in the leader to the last, so they defended Berlin and themselves to the end in 1945! The film shows how the fascist military brutally suppress peaceful anti-Hitler demonstrations. Although in the USSR not so long ago passed the “red terror”, party “purges” and mass repression! To this case there is a long-standing proverb “A speck is seen in another’s eye, and a log is not noticed in your own.”
5. The discrepancy between Soviet propaganda and the reality of war!
(a) The German soldier is bad at shooting, stupid, military and technically weak, because the Rising Army has only a couple of guns and tanks, bad easily shot down aircraft! Especially “interesting” looks horse-saber battles, similar to medieval garments! In short, lowered the Germans below the cavemen! if you believe the film, you will not believe that such incompetents destroyed 20 million people on the fronts of the 2nd world war!
(b) Soldier of the USSR - shows up with a smile on his face as if on exercises, with full combat and technical greatness! They attack a small group of Germans with hundreds of tanks and paratroopers and drive them home like rippling dogs. They drove us in 1941-42, and only then WE THEM to Berlin! The creators of the film looked short-sighted! The reality was bitterer and more unexpected! Party shortsightedness and lies paid off at a very high price - the blood of our soldiers.
It is propagandized that our cardboard planes and tanks will bomb the iron-concrete walls of fascism! Agree that the spirit spirit, but with a machine gun in hand calmer than with 1 rifle for five against a rushing 5-ton "Tiger".
The film shows a scene when a young smiling Russian soldier says to a captured old German: “You thought we were poor, and we have thousands of them”, pointing to clusters of aircraft flying in the sky, as if the USSR has a lot of military equipment, it just did not show the enemies! Okay, let's say... Why, then, did the Soviet leadership wait, tolerate and prevent it from going to the front against the aggressor in 1941? Waited, experimented, watched how many Russian soldiers would die in battle?!? If the equipment in the hangars and warehouses was enough, then it was necessary to release it urgently, destroy the enemy and it would have been possible to avoid millions of human casualties of citizens of the USSR! Why? Because she wasn't there! Stupid fiction!
One thing is propagated by the authorities, but in fact, everything is different at the front! The Soviet soldiers were convinced of this when they met face to face in the German war machine. The German war machine must not be belittled, underestimated and ridiculed by extolling the technique of the USSR, telling ordinary citizens of fables about the weakness of the Germans! All the lies and military weakness of the USSR were revealed in the first months of the war. Therefore, horrified and demoralized people, without sufficient weapons, surrendered to the German captivity by thousands. The Soviet government should not lie, hide the truth about the state of affairs on the eve of the war, but prepare the country for the coming war (not only physically, but morally), tell the truth about the ongoing cataclysm in the world, about Hitler’s plans, build equipment and weapons, and not embellish the pseudo-future, which turned out to be not so bloodless and easy. Although it is unclear if the Soviet cinema made this film in 1938, then the party leadership of the country understood the reality of the coming war. But then why was it ready for war on screen, but did not prepare for it in real life? Paradox!
Propaganda! No more than that. Some people believe and will believe the movie.