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Heroes of Shipka is quite a delightful venture into Soviet cowboys and Indians. The film depicts in ardent propagandist terms the Russian victory over the Ottomans in 1876 when the Russians, out of sheer humanity, came to the aid of their "oppressed" Bulgarian brothers. The whole show is fraught with an enthusiasm and naivete that Hollywood no longer offers...
Surely, Heroes of Shipka is valuable not only as an exercise in the art of film-making, but also as an example of how effective mythmaking can inculcate patriotism by means of an almost Orwellian warping of history. And it is surely more exciting than what the text-books tell us of treaty-making and spheres of influence. Fiction in this case is more persuasive than fact...
Doodling. "On leaving the legation building at 2 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 20, 1949, I bicycled down toward the tennis club . . . When I had reached the little park on Shipka Street, I was overtaken and passed by a civilian on a bicycle that did not bear any license plate, a matter which came instantly to my attention. This person crossed my line of progress, summoned me to descend, asked for my name and ordered me to walk alongside of him up Shipka Street...
...science as Lieutenant General Sir Arthur Thomas Sloggett, who was director general of medical services to the British Army in the War, and the late George James Playfair, Baron Playfair, an outstanding medical scientist who used to cheer patients with an account of his part in the action at Shipka Pass in the Turkish War of 1877. While the exact process by which Bovril is distilled from meat is secret, Bovril, Ltd. has never attempted to conceal the fact that it takes 20 to 30 pounds of good lean beef to make one pound of Bovril. This circumstance is cunningly...
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