tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5259082628352435132.post8075505084776916980..comments2023-11-05T01:33:49.683-07:00Comments on from Russia with love: Crucial WW2 battle rememberedlastochkahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03693705381682951810noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5259082628352435132.post-3961082523099684012009-02-02T20:52:00.000-08:002009-02-02T20:52:00.000-08:00Since most of my grandmothers family lived in and ...Since most of my grandmothers family lived in and around Bratislava, there were some people who were well aware of the Russian role in preventing the cities of what is now considered central Europe from being completely destroyed as the Nazi's planned during there withdrawal from those places.<BR/><BR/>I find that this attitude goes far deeper and is much more complex. I dont quite understand it when it comes from very educated individuals. Not merely very well educated people, but people who I grew up with, sat in the same classes with. And somehow I came out of the same education with a totally different way of seeing the world and other people in it than they did.<BR/><BR/>Most of these people have formed this opinions without ever having had any conversation at length with a Russian who either lived in Russia during the war, or lives there now. They have formed a bias against a people they have never had any sort of contact with in any way whatsoever. In fact most of them have really not had much contact with people from other nations, who have the same feelings about their own nation and cultures that they do about their own.<BR/><BR/>That this is possible is something that is beyond their ability to imagine.<BR/><BR/>I suppose I just answered my own question. It is simply lack of imagination on their parts.Chernevoghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10164753602062259638noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5259082628352435132.post-17524822473046104462009-02-02T13:45:00.000-08:002009-02-02T13:45:00.000-08:00I read in memories of one russian Metropolitan who...I read in memories of one russian Metropolitan who had described his voyage to Stalingrad 3 years later after the battle, he cupped his hands and scooped up a little ground, he was ready to flip it, when he suddenly saw that there were very small fragments of people bones,grinded practically into dust...<BR/>Russian soldiers were heroic but only mention about their victories could break the stereotype about drunk, cruel russians...It was very usefull to associate us all with personality of Stalin and communistic ideology.<BR/>Who knows now, for example, that it was russian intelligence officers who saved from total destruction mined Krakov, Bratislava, Prague and Belgrade?lastochkahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03693705381682951810noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5259082628352435132.post-89889405352885431442009-02-02T10:52:00.000-08:002009-02-02T10:52:00.000-08:00I find it ironic that where I am little is known a...I find it ironic that where I am little is known about Stalingrad, or even the large role that Russia played in WWII. In popular culture, in movies, rarely is any mention of the Russian role noted, and more often than not, the Russians only show up at the end of the war, after the surrender of Germany.<BR/><BR/>Stalingrad is not merely considered the bloodiest battle of World War II, the Great Patriotic War, but the bloodiest battle in human history. Had this battle gone the other way, it is rather likely that the entire war would have as well.Chernevoghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10164753602062259638noreply@blogger.com