Author of quotes: Vladimir Medinsky

The only thing I don't see the point is to shoot films for money Ministry of culture, who spit upon the selected power, not even criticize. This is about those who shoot film on the principle of "Raska-kownacka". Why? Some kind of state masochism. We will not otherwise supported a wide range of films.

Our theatres are generally unthinkable in the world of rights and freedoms. I honestly don't know of a precedent, no country in the world and any era over the last couple of thousand years, starting with Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome, when the theatres so enjoyed absolute freedom in the presence of state budget financing.

It has always been. And that's why it will always be...

The officer, who taught us in the MGIMO military translation, he told me once, about a comical episode on shooting ozarowski movies.
He served in the HLC the Central Group of forces in Czechoslovakia, and their whole part was seconded to work the crowd to help the filmmakers. There are in Silesia the old tank firing range, a huge area in ravine, surrounded on all sides by hills where you can conduct live-fire exercises. Here on this site and spent our officers all day, "playing war games". Have fun, Oh, and tired, of course. Went to a nearby Czech beer to celebrate her acting debut.
Here we must consider two points.
First, the Germans in the Silesian region have lived for centuries, before the war in 1938, Hitler this area from Czechoslovakia took. After the war, the feeling of Big brother, the government of Czechoslovakia of all Germans from there in retaliation - "safely", and roughly flooded. However, the Germans abandoned house still stood empty: simple Czechs somehow everything was a little afraid that the owners return.
The second point was our officers, straight from the landfill, everything in soot and oil, dressed in a dusty form of the Wehrmacht. So they got to share the role.
Now imagine: in a Czech restaurant a few kilometers from the border with Germany throwing open the door and minting savvy boots step, tumble to dusty murine form of the eagle German soldiers... And then in a noisy beer for a few moments - dumb than "Auditor". Not brought to the lips of a Frozen mug... the innkeeper...the Swooning waitresses... And General horror in the eyes: "the Germans are back!".
This hilarious (anyone, really) the moment remembered my military teacher forever.

The great Patriotic farther and farther from us. Gone to a better world all the marshals and almost all the generals of the Victory. Those who knew the truth about the war deep space and reliably. Their memoir, published once in the millions, young people, alas, do not read, and will not have to read... too different today. Leave the last veterans of the past, who knows the truth about the war, after knowing her personally in the frozen trenches of the suburbs in the ruins of Stalingrad tractor on the steps of the Reichstag.
Tons of archival documents: the minutes of the meetings of the Politburo to the secret correspondence of the "Big three" - these rheinterasse documents, also giving a true idea of how everything was in reality, alas, is the destiny of a few archivists but the owners of the scholars of steppe history.
And even books, written "hot pursuit" of the great Soviet writers, those that are veterans themselves - from year to year are published less often. New generations do read less, especially literature heavy, deep, distant about events and the like as "irrelevant".
Living human memory of the war fades, dissolves in time.
It remains only to collective myth, a surrogate memory of society, which today is almost totally forms of media and cinema.

To take someone else's good. Besides, for Americans, the Victory meant something quite different from what we...

As we come to Stalin, in his office on horseback sitting on a chair Kaganovich - bald crimson. Stalin, who had:
- What did you bring me? What is this list? Why do some Jews?
It turns out that Kaganovich brought for approval a list of his Commissariat.
- When I was a young, inexperienced Commissar,- said Stalin,- I got a request to Lenin Commissar, a Jew by nationality, to appoint him Deputy, also a Jew. "Comrade Stalin! - told me Vladimir Ilyich.- Remember once and for all, and mind all his life: if the head of the Jew, the Deputy must be a Russian, my friend, and Vice versa! Otherwise, they are a tail pull!"
A rapid movement of the tube Stalin pushed lying on the table list:
Against Lenin's will not go!

To summarize. Soviet Union in any way was not obliged by the victory to the allies. To even attempt to say so is to mock the historical truth.
Will be a fitting tribute to the soldiers of the allies. Their lives for the common cause gave 700 thousand of them. We can say that our loss has decreased by the same number. Their bravery and courage - no doubt. Glory to the heroes!
The only thing it would be nice if, on the other side - remember us.
But - hopeless. Not far from nice in may 2010, passing the monument to the heroes of world war II. The pedestal waving three flags of the victorious countries: French, American and English. And flagpoles comes from the same three. The memory of the Russian, 27 million Russians who died for their current French freedom and well-fed blue life - not even envisaged.

The movie may not be 100% historically accurate. Cinema is art, it is always conditional. The creators of the historic movie solve their problems, often successful - and least successful of these films can bring academics to heart attacks. Thus any movie, even bad, will see more people than read any book. And when it will show on TV...

We still live in the rear of the War. The war further, but each new generation comes to life thanks to the Victory. And this he must continually be reminded.
Sometimes the power starts to show this thread some interest. Everybody remembers the celebration of the 60th anniversary of the Victory, and especially the 65th anniversary. Having such a rattle, as the TV can not be the most convincing arguments-the conclusions of the hammer in the head, devastated by series, dancing on ice, programs - max and other rubbish.

""Our was that everyone understand that this fight is the last one. Russian long harnessed, but to stop the indomitable shaft striving for the victory of the soldiers were not under force to anybody. And for our was that our soldiers are just better at war. Yes, ladies and gentlemen of SS, this is not women and children into the gas chambers to push. The assault was Russian Ivan infantry, last blood, fire and water.

Apparently, in America there are things over which you cannot mock. But thank God, still remained. The memory of War is one of them.

1990. The unfortunate half-dead country were beaten with a hammer on the head every day.

For the victory over German Nazism, the most expensive - human lives - paid it we will.