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...been executed by the Nazis for her part in a partisan raid, and her diary of the dark days of the German invasion, published in 1962, won wide acclaim. Once rehabilitated, Kosterin spent much of his time criticizing Russian officialdom for its treatment of minority groups, notably the Crimean Tartars, and, more recently, dissident intellectuals, until he died of a heart ailment...
...Russian cannon. But hovering above the whole elaborately-conceived spectacle is its museum-like quality: the generals watching the action from the heights above the valley are clearly aware that they are witnessing not the Light Brigade charging, but the Charge of the Light Brigade. Therefore the whole Crimean climax of the film is unreal, as any portrayal of history must be when the actors are depicted as being aware of history. The film is curiously unsubstantial: its action could only have been unconvincing, and more importantly, the meaning of it all never really becomes clear...
...event perfectly illustrates the point. Britain entered the Crimean War on the side of Turkey, largely to defend its own imperialistic interests against possible Russian expansion. Two of England's leading generals, Lord Lucan and Lord Cardigan, were quarrelsome brothers-in-law. A purblind aristocrat, Lucan had not commanded troops for 17 years; "the melancholy truth" about Cardigan, as Woodham-Smith put it, "was that his glorious golden head had nothing in it." At the front, battles with the Russians were hardly less bitter than the internecine wrangling between the two commanders. Finally, a stupid order was fatally misinterpreted...
...however, or timid either, about the style of Argyll and Sutherland fighting. The regiment became famous throughout the empire when a London Times correspondent in 1854 sent back a dispatch on "the thin red line" of Argylls, standing two deep, that withstood a Russian charge at Balaklava in the Crimean War. When the outnumbered troops started to move forward to fight it out hand to hand, their commander, General Sir Colin Campbell, halted them only by bellowing out: "Ninety-third! Ninety-third! Damn all that eagerness...
...Annapolis, four years later. When war broke out, he was the commander of a handful of antiquated cruisers and assorted small craft in the Black Sea. As the German invaders rushed toward the oilfields of the Caucasus, Gorshkov became expert at amphibious operations, plucking trapped Soviet troops from the Crimean coasts and landing them farther eastward to fight again...