If you continue to pay attention to the News of Russia and Ukraine, it is estimated that you will always be able to be laughed at by the various "high emotional intelligence" behaviors of Ukrainian politicians.
For example, recently, when Ukraine was asking germany for help, the mayor of Chernihiv thought of a wonderful entry point in order to make the Germans empathize with them, and he said to the German media present: "We have a grave of Nazi soldiers in our city, and the Russian army is shelling your grandfather's grave!" ”
The German journalists present were confused.
You say your grandfather was a Nazi, you're a Nazi, your whole family is a Nazi!!
This is not a one or two-time operation, and in the past two months, the people on the side of the Ukrainian government have always been able to magically pull the moral bottom line to Hitler's level, and then unabashedly dissuade the Westerners who support them.
For example, after the Russian army recently conquered a Ukrainian position, it found the body of an unclothed girl inside, and one of the hands of the body was gone, and the most shocking thing was that there was a Nazi symbol carved out of countless knives on the stomach of the body.
It's hard to imagine what kind of abuse this girl suffered before she died.
For many, the war broke out more than a month ago.
But in fact, for the people of Eastern Ukraine, this nightmarish war has been happening for many years, and similar operations that make people feel that they should appear in The Second World War have been staged countless times around them.
It just so happens that Pumpkin recently watched a 2021 Russian movie called "Blazing Sunshine", which reflects the story of the conflict in the Luhansk region through the experiences of three veterans.
Because Russia's voice is not strong enough, the film is very well-known, and the subtitles I watch are all machine-turned.
But as long as you compare the news, you will find that this movie from a year ago is extremely realistic, and you have long explained clearly why today's events are like this.
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The story in the film takes place in the Luhansk region of Ukraine in 2014.
This is when the conflict in Eastern Ukraine intensifies. Because most of its residents spoke Russian, it became a frequent bombing and harassment site by the Ukrainian government after pro-Nazi sentiment in Ukraine grew.
As soon as the film opens, several people with guns jump out of a car and walk straight into the houses of several civilians.
The man saw the gun and instinctively began to retreat, but the other party raised his hand to shoot, directly knocked the man to the ground, and then made up a shovel for the face, naturally snatching the man's watch.
The mistress of the room heard the gunshots and retreated into the room screaming in fright, but the cruel murderer did not let her go, he dragged the hostess's hair into the room to rape, and killed the crying child.
The other squad made no difference, and they didn't hesitate to make up the guns on the pregnant woman's stomach, which also showed that this was not the first time they had done such a thing.
Judging from the dress, these people are the so-called "anti-Russian armed volunteers" organized by the Ukrainian government, these people were originally all kinds of criminal elements, and after ukrainian politicians and oligarchs wanted to deal with Russia, they paid to recruit these people to the front.
Every time Ukrainian government forces bombed the area, these people drove into eastern Ukraine, burning and looting like vultures, and then flew away.
In reality, the biggest funder behind these people is called Kolomoisky, a Ukrainian oligarch, and among the various groups he sponsors, there is a now-familiar name, that is, "Azov Camp".
Subsequently, the camera turns, and the film's number one protagonist, Vlad, appears.
He was a Soviet veteran of Ukrainian descent who had been traumatized by the war in Afghanistan and always wanted to stay away from it.
So, when the Ukrainian color revolutionary government came to power and conflict broke out in eastern Ukraine, his first reaction as a pro-Russian faction was not to join the resistance, but to take his family to Russia.
However, when they stopped halfway, they passed the village that had just been slaughtered, and as soon as he entered the courtyard, he saw the man lying in a pool of blood, and when his son went to fetch water, he saw the body of the hostess lying under the well.
Vlad realized that something was not going well, and sure enough, the perpetrator had not gone far.
After a few shots, Vlad saw the mob killing the people in several other cars who had teamed up with him to escape.
The road can no longer go back, Vlad carefully led his family to take a detour to find a broken car, and rescued a little girl who hid, and finally escaped.
However, their identity documents were also gone, so when they crossed the checkpoint, the Vlad family was taken by the local militia to the headquarters of the Luhansk National Army to verify their identity.
Here, Vlad bumps into the second male protagonist of the film, Pasha, commander of the Luhansk National Army.
Pasha was also a veteran of the Soviet Army, but unlike Vlad, he decisively joined the local militia after the ukrainian color revolution government came to power and has been fighting on the front line.
Pasha told Vlad that now that the border is controlled by Ukrainian government forces, they will not let civilians leave, and Vlad and his family can only live here temporarily.
While chatting, the Pasha was still assembling the pistol, and it turned out that it was not in order for half a day, and Vlad couldn't help but remind him that "the spring load was reversed."
This sentence immediately revealed that Vlad had joined the army, and Pasha directly asked about Vlad's unit number, and the hands of the two veterans were tightly clasped together.
Pasha sincerely asked Vlad for help, because the conflict intensified, he needed experienced people very much, and many civilians who came to help could not even shoot how to get them involved in the war.
But Vlad still didn't want to take the gun anymore, he just promised to help drive an ambulance to save people, because he loved his wife and children, and he didn't want his family to worry about himself anymore.
In the evening, when Vlad went to pasha's house for dinner, Pasha's father was complaining, saying that I think the people in Kiev are just pretending to be stupid, they just want to join the European Union.
We were incorporated into Europe for more than seven months, but when was that? That was when the Germans occupied Ukraine, when Luhansk was still called Voroshilovgrad, and the newspapers said that only German power could bring progress to the Ukrainians! The Germans are saviors!
Pasha said helplessly, Dad, now it's all going to happen again.
Pasha's father immediately interrupted, what nonsense are you talking about? It was the Germans who were fighting in our place, and now it's peacetime, will those people in Kiev bomb us?
Pasha's father did not expect that he was really right, kiev was treating Ukrainian civilians in the same way that the Nazis had done.
During this time, Vlad became an ambulance driver, but the tragic scene he saw every time he went out on a mission was deeply torturing his heart:
The headquarters of the Luhansk National Army was bombed, and the Pasha nearly survived;
The children who were singing in the school were bombed, they were blown apart, and the badly injured teacher was insane, and he repeatedly said that the children were waiting for me to give them a lesson while trying to get out of the ambulance.
More often, before Vlad's ambulance arrived, the entire family of the civilians who had been bombed or attacked had already died.
A random shell is enough to make the otherwise happy family like him disappear from this world completely, and Vlad, who drives an ambulance, can only watch all this happen in front of his eyes, but he can't do anything.
When Vlad's son said passionately that he wanted to stay and join the army, Vlad's suppressed emotions exploded, and he grabbed his son's collar and shouted:
War is not a family, it is not as heroic as it is in movies. Do you know exactly what? The most painful thing about war is not that you will die, but that you have no idea when you will die, that you watch your friends die in front of you and you can't do anything about it!
Although the idea of protecting his family still has the upper hand, it can be seen that Vlad's heart has been violently shaken in the fierce war.
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Like Vlad, who was also changed by this war, there is the third Soviet veteran in the movie.
His name was Alexei and he lived in Kiev.
Alexei first appeared in the film in a restaurant in Kiev.
Here, Alexei, like other ordinary people, cannot see the truth about the tragic situation in Eastern Ukraine, because the news in Ukraine's own and Western media on television always tells everyone that the separatist forces in Eastern Ukraine are terrorists, and they have thrown Molotov cocktails in the streets, which has caused many deaths.
As for the news of the massacre of the locals by Ukrainian government forces, there is no news at all.
Walking down the street, naïve young Ukrainians were so happy as the New Year, draped in Ukrainian flags and shouting "Glory belongs to Ukraine, salute to heroes."
This sentence is actually the slogan of the pro-Nazi regime in Ukraine during World War II, but these young people are not interested in exploring history, they only know that the people who shouted this slogan "rebelled against the Russians", and they felt that those people were "heroes" and shouted slogans.
Alexei is different from Vlad, he originally had a family, but divorced, the children can not be contacted, he himself can not do anything but fight, every day always feel that he has nothing to do.
So when he saw that the Ukrainian government said it was going to recruit an instructor for the civilian armed forces, he signed up.
But on the way to the barracks, Alexei realized something was wrong:
These recruits shaved their heads, had big gold chains and big tattoos, and opened their mouths to show off that they had cut the abdomen and hearts of civilians in Eastern Ukraine, not at all like soldiers, but like street thugs.
When you get to the barracks, there are even more outrageous things.
When someone joined the army and tried to escape, the people in the barracks cut the man's heel tendon so that he could no longer run;
The men of the barracks caught a young man wearing a ribbon, said he was a separatist, beat him to death and put him in a cage, peed on him, and abused him like a dog;
The funny thing is that this gang of bullies the weak looks very brave, but the battle is completely unorganized and undisciplined, and Alexei trained them to call out tai cai and not move.
Sure enough, after pulling into the battlefield, Alexei's men happened to encounter The Pasha, and there was a fierce battle between the two sides, Alexei's squad was defeated, and Alexei himself was captured alive.
Vlad, who arrived in an ambulance, recognized Alexei as his former comrade-in-arms.
Decades have passed, and 3 old comrades who were in the same army have slipped into 3 completely different life trajectories because of the chaos after the country has fallen apart, and then they have met again.
The foreshadowing of the film finally converges into a complete story at this time, depicting the complexity of the local conflict to the fullest.
Alexei was not a die-hard Nazi, and when he was taken prisoner, he saw the wounded and would help save people.
In the process of saving people with Vlad, Alexei's heart was also violently shaken, he remembered his wife and children, and he felt more and more that he was on the wrong side, and he should not help a government that slaughtered his own people.
The intensity of the war grew, and during a bombing, Pasha's house was hit by a bomb, and all but the little girl that Vlad rescued was killed.
When Vlad arrived at the scene and saw his wife and son lying in a pool of blood, he broke down.
He has been hiding from the war, fleeing with his family, refusing to participate in the battle, preventing his son from becoming a soldier, and he has tried his best to keep the war out of his house and let his family live well.
But he hid all his life, and the war still took the lives of his family!
Looking at the corpses of his family, Vlad's eyes widened, but he couldn't cry a word.
Vlad had no choice, he found Pasha alone, and said silently, "Give me a gun." ”
Pasha's family was gone, and he looked at the ruins of the broken wall in silence, without a word. As a veteran of resolute resistance, all this in front of him will only strengthen his determination to continue to fight the neo-Nazis.
The most defensive thing is Alexei, a man who has always had a straight face and no expression in the previous more than an hour of the plot.
But when he saw Vlad collapse, Alexei hid to the side and cried out, feeling that he had committed a deep sin, and took up a gun and killed himself.
Three veterans with different experiences and different attitudes towards the conflict finally felt the same despair in the same tragedy.
In addition to the main story of the three veterans, the film also sets up dramatic stories for several supporting characters.
For example, among the volunteers organized by the Ukrainian government, there was a young man who joined the army at the behest of the government, but he had a girlfriend from eastern Ukraine, and the girlfriend was pro-Russian.
In the interval between the wars, the young man could not stand the pain of lovesickness and sneaked to find his girlfriend.
He and his girlfriend had both participated in the color revolution in Ukraine, but the two had different ideas, the young man was simple-minded, what was said in the news was what was, and he really felt that as long as the Russians were driven away, their lives would be better.
But his girlfriend thought that the government at that time was not good, so we should try to change it, not replace it with a worse government.
The Ukrainian color revolution subverted and subverted, but the new Ukrainian government was even more unbearable, knowing that there were not many Russians in the town where she lived, but the government did not hesitate to drop bombs at them.
After learning that her boyfriend joined the army, the girl once broke up with him. But seeing the young man running to see her, the girlfriend still couldn't help but soften her heart, and the two embraced together and reconciled.
Just when everyone thought that the little couple could finally reunite, a shell was caught off guard next to the two men, and the person who fired the cannon was the young man's volunteer comrades, and the reason why they fired was only because they were too bored to do anything.
Two couples who could have been happy were just like that on the street.
And the abused young man in the cage, who not only did not die, but also escaped, struggling to escape home amid a field of flowers and rumbling gunfire, and the symbolism of the entire bridge section was clearly filmed.
And the little girl who was rescued by Vlad, her name was Katyusha.
While she was painting at Pasha's house, someone looked at her painting and asked curiously, "Katyusha, how is your sun black?" ”
The meaning of this bridge section is also very straightforward.
In the world of children, she could not understand why adults were fighting, but what she knew was that the wars and massacres had completely lost their luster, and even if she could paint the sun she had drawn yellow with watercolor pens, it would not be possible to heal her inner wounds.
There are many bloody scenes in the whole film, the whole process is more than two hours, and it is almost always filled with a sense of despair that cannot be solved, so that people can't see a little hope and can't breathe.
At the end of the film, a man behind the scenes, apparently dressed in A U.S. military uniform, is also encouraging the Ukrainian government to devote more troops to the war.
Behind him were mercenaries from the U.S. military and the CIA, who were planning to send these well-equipped troops to the front and completely destroy the resistance in Eastern Ukraine.
But just as the Luhansk Nationalist Army was suffering more and more casualties and was about to be unable to hold on, an unidentified, but apparently Russian-dressed armored unit also arrived.
Since then, this whole desperate story has finally had a little bit of light, and the whole film has come to an end.
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In fact, in addition to the Russian film, the Ukrainian film and television team has also cooperated with Westerners, and has also made films on the conflict in Eastern Ukraine.
In the film, both sides express their positions, condemning the other as a bad person.
But if you compare it with reality, you will find that the Russian one is relatively more objective and real.
The film is a story from 2014, and in 2015, a French female journalist Bonaire made a documentary called "Donbass", which also reflected how the people of the east Ukrainian region were slaughtered by extremists in recent years.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8j0tJsKltg
In the documentary, a young mother shows her child with bandages wrapped around her hands, when the Gunfire of the Ukrainian Army shattered the stroller, and she and the child were lucky to survive.
In order to avoid the gunfire of the Ukrainian government forces, many elderly people and children hid in the bomb shelter for several years, never seeing the sun.
One woman pulled her children to the camera and asked, "Look at these children, are they terrorists?" ”
As for the shooting of children in the movie and the deliberate beating of pregnant women to play, it is not uncommon in documentaries.
If you compare the documentary made by a French journalist with "The Sun", you will find that the life of the Dongwu people in the documentary is much worse than in the artistic creation (you can compare the scene of the bombing of the broken wall under the same screen, I remember it is very similar).
The film's despair is only more than two hours, but the people of Dongwu have been living in this kind of life for more than 8 years.
For 8 years, they lived like ants, accidentally losing their lives, or hiding in bomb shelters as soon as there was movement, and panicking for a long time.
In eight years, the so-called "international community" has never looked them in the eye once, and the so-called "anti-war activists" have never called on the Ukrainian government to reflect on it and stop bombing civilian areas.
When Bonaire first approached them, the refugees were skeptical, they didn't believe that the media dared to send out what had happened to them, and they always asked repeatedly: "Are you really going to send all this out?" ”
Western journalists have never turned a blind eye to what extremists are doing in eastern Ukraine, and these ordinary people suspect that the press conference that comes to interview them is the same as other journalists in the West.
Unfortunately, the documentary was quietly hidden in the snow, as if it did not exist.
It wasn't until recently that the documentary was re-turned over, with Bonaire standing up and saying, "I'm sorry to shock the audience, but the fact is that the Ukrainian army bombed their own people," and many Frenchpeople were in an uproar, calling the reporter "rumor-mongering" and putting her name on Twitter's first hot search.
Similarly, the popularity of the Russian movie "Scorching Sun" is also very low.
But "Donbass", co-produced by Ukraine and the West, can be nominated and awarded at the Cannes Film Festival.
It is precisely because of the years of connivance of the Western media that Ukraine will not even pretend to be pro-Nazi, and do the same out-of-the-box operations that we mentioned at the beginning.
On Women's Day this year, the Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a propaganda photo of a Ukrainian female soldier, and the result was that all the female soldiers in the picture wore the Nazi symbol "Black Sun".
Foreign netizens in the comment area have pointed out the problem, but they are still determined not to delete the post.
The Neo-Nazi group Azov Battalion in Ukraine, when asking Japan for help, also carried out a similar operation to German journalists, saying:
"Although the city has become a ruin, we will fight until the last moment!" You Japanese must understand us! ”
Unfortunately, this is probably the wrong era, and if the Japanese Reiwa abandoned houses hear him, they will probably only scold him twice, and then continue to play with their second-dimensional wives.
In the last month or so, the Western media that had previously pretended to be dead have come back to life, shouting anti-war while trying to "shape the right collective memory."
However, the collective memory they want to shape is so much science fiction compared to reality that they themselves cannot justify themselves, contradictory, and slap themselves.
There is an American rightist big V, who is anti-Russian, but even when she commented on the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, she couldn't help but feel that the Ukrainian government was too crotch-pulling, and said in the article that "the Ukrainian government is corrupt."
The New York Times was anxious when it saw it, and quickly sent an email to ask her: Why do you say that Ukraine is corrupt? How do you speak so much like the propaganda of the Russian state media?
This big V looked confused: What's the matter???
Am I speaking from your New York Times article? Didn't you say that the Ukrainian government is corrupt?!
As she spoke, she threw a link to a 2016 New York Times article with the headline "Ukraine's Corruption."
Boy! There is a deviation in the report, what is corruption, where there is corruption, the Ukrainian government is even more corrupt, he can not be corrupt at this time! I suggest that the New York Times quickly set up a ministry of truth to take back the newspaper for 16 years and burn it!
Usually, Western governments especially like to talk about political correctness, and when they mention the Nazis, they are gritting their teeth.
As a result, in the face of the resurgence of the Nazi Ukraine, they have shown a very flexible moral bottom line.
Facebook, for example, recently relaxed its original anti-hate speech rules, allowing users to launch death curses and cyberbullying against leaders in Russia and Belarus, and saying that "Azov camps can be praised to a limited extent."
The United States used to claim that it defeated the evil Nazis in World War II and saved the world.
But when the 2021 UN resolution "against glorification of Nazism" was passed with the support of 130 countries, the only two countries in the world to vote against it were Ukraine and the United States.
(This can be the picture of the United Nations meeting, not necessarily this tweet)
When this news came out before, everyone didn't know why, and they didn't understand why as soon as they arrived at the store, they always said something difficult to understand, such as opposing the glorification of the Nazis as "violating freedom of speech" and "prone to fake news".
Now that things have reached this point, everyone finally understands that you are waiting here in the United States.
In fact, compared with the devilish Westerners, we Chinese netizens look at this matter more simply, there are not so many ideological problems, and many of us pay attention to this problem often only on two points.
The first point is that the Ukrainian people, who have been betrayed by the government and forced into the war, are too pitiful, and we have suffered similar suffering.
The second point is that if one day we want to unify the country, the means adopted by Westerners today will be more or less transplanted to us unchanged.
We would like to see in advance, where they will start from, what means will be used, we can preview it, prepare the courseware.
Both movies and reality have told us that modern warfare is not just a problem at the military level, but also a battlefield everywhere in public opinion, media, movies and even games.
After all, the country must be unified, and in the future we will encounter similar "wars", and how to completely win this war in an all-round struggle is a problem we must consider.