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...Vekhi premises. They urge Russians to resist "the mercenary pursuit of more wages, titles, positions, apartments, dachas, cars and the chance to buy gaudy rags." Instead, they should seek an internal freedom of conscience, and redemption through penitence. Solzhenitsyn believes that millions in the Soviet Union were accomplices in Stalin's crimes. He calls upon the entire nation to confess to the guilt of the past. "Only through the repentance of a multitude of people can the air and the soil of Russia be cleansed, so that a new, healthy national life can grow...
That Hitler and Stalin were doing...
Sergei Eisenstein's Alexander Nevsky is historically a fitting complement to Ballad of a Soldier. Made in 1938, it represents Eisenstein's effort to re-integrate himself with the Stalin regime after a long period of disfavor. Alexander Nevsky is in every sense a one-dimensional film. Its theme is patriotism, and its message, directed in no uncertain terms at Nazi Germany, is that Russia will ward off any attempt at conquest. The film takes place in 1242, when combined Russian armies under the leadership of Prince Alexander Nevsky, defeated the invading German force. Eisenstein uses these events...
...striking side element of Alexander Nevsky is the hostile depiction of Catholicism, which Eisenstein accomplishes by integrating Catholic ceremony with German preparations for battle. It would seem that this is a fair reflection of Stalin's strong anti-Catholic Church line, which terminated in 1941 with the Anglo-American-Soviet alliance...
...movie, Nevsky speaks in triumph to a mass of Russians who have assembled to celebrate their victory and pay him tribute. In his address he makes a plea for preparedness, a plea which Stalin and the Soviet leadership found themselves unable or unwilling to heed. In the context of the Hitler-Stalin Pact, which took place less than a year after the film was released, Alexander Nevsky must have seemed, to those who originally saw it, a meaningless film. To our good fortune, later historical events have made the movie, for all its flaws, anything but meaningless...