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Victory Day has always been a unifying holiday for the peoples of the former USSR, and this is not surprising, because a huge number of peoples of the Soviet Union stood shoulder to shoulder to defend their right to life. They fought not
A critical analysis of Victory Day media portrayal in Russia and Ukraine, highlighting shifts in historical memory and propaganda in war films.
Key Takeaways
- Victory Day remains a potent symbol but is increasingly politicized and fragmented in post-Soviet spaces.
- Media in Russia and Ukraine use war films to promote differing nationalistic narratives and historical memories.
- Soviet-era collective memory is being replaced by selective, often divisive interpretations of WWII history.
- Propaganda and censorship shape public perception of the war, influencing national identity and political agendas.
- There is a need for critical engagement with historical narratives to foster genuine understanding and reconciliation.
What the video covers
- Victory Day historically unified the peoples of the former USSR, commemorating their joint struggle during WWII.
- Soviet war films promoted a collective vision of a future built on shared sacrifice and unity among diverse nationalities.
- In the 1990s, the narrative shifted to a fragmented memory, focusing on individual heroism and nationalistic reinterpretations.
- Ukrainian media's rejection of Soviet war films reflects broader political tensions and attempts to separate from shared history.
- Russian central TV channels largely avoid Soviet war classics, favoring nationalistic films like T-34 that emphasize a selective historical truth.
- The video critiques the glorification of Russian genetic superiority and dismisses the role of allies in WWII.
- It highlights contradictions in Russian media messaging, including selective memory and propaganda around Victory Day.
- The video discusses the politicization of historical figures and events, such as Mannerheim and Bandera supporters.
- Despite media manipulation, many people still watch TV and are influenced by the narratives presented.
- The video calls for a more honest and inclusive remembrance of the war and its lessons.
Chapters
- 00:00Victory Day as a Unifying Holiday
- 00:59Soviet War Films and Collective Vision
- 02:28Shift in Narrative in the 1990s
- 03:37Media Portrayal and Censorship in Russia and Ukraine
- 04:37Critique of Russian Nationalistic Propaganda
- 06:03Historical Figures and Political Reinterpretations
- 07:08Media Influence and Public Perception
- 09:08Call for Honest Remembrance and Lessons
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for a bun, a tram, as the Ministry of Culture would have us believe, using our own taxes, or even for one of the world's largest yachts.
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Although, of course, it was beautiful. If it weren't for sanctions, we wouldn't have even seen it. Who knows, one of the world's largest yachts would ever have crossed the bridge. Teenagers crossing the bridge, if it weren't for
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Western sanctions, defended their homeland in order to create and build a life in the interests of the majority of the population. This was precisely the vision of the future that the Soviet Union offered at that time. It was
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opposed by a vision of a future of a somewhat different kind, where everything will be fine. Only a small part of the special chosen ones, a genetically certified nation, uber-certified, of course, will control factories and resources and guzzle like crazy, but life will be good.
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And this is the part of the nations that rallied in a single impulse. The sphere, while the rest were promised, at best, slave-like working conditions, and at worst, overtime with maximum profit extraction after victory. The Soviet image was promoted
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in war movies, and whatever movie you take, the idea was always present: together for a future happy life, even if you've lost everything, you can create parts. Vanya, do you know who I am? I'm your father. [music] But in the 90s, the message changed; it turned out that we didn't fight together for happiness because the detachments behind the city were driving everyone to the slaughter, but we honor and remember the bunnies and prostitutes who saved the homeland despite being drunk, Razin, and the general idea became something like, "Grandpa endured and ordered you to," and
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I came across a news story that a Ukrainian channel would show the film "Only Old Men Go Into Battle," and the article cites a post by a disgruntled viewer who says that there are so many good modern Ukrainian films about the war, I'm sure the
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Russian media would have blown this out of proportion, about how the damned Banderites once again abandoned our common history; there were countless such reports; we need to get rid of our common history, and such actions once again confirm, I would
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say, the partial inadequacy of the current Ukrainian authorities, indeed. The rejection of memory is terrible. The only problem is that on the central Russian TV channels, Russia that honors memory, there won't be a single Soviet film. The only one on the
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central channel will be the film "On War as on War" at two in the morning, I hope I don't miss it. Usually, they show "Pen" at that time. Are in Te Vi. After that, this film would be a wonderful
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addition. The thing is, a huge number of people still watch TV. And if you want to say that demand creates supply, judging by the ratings, everything is fine with demand, it's just that the demand is not for what is
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needed. In fact, the dream of the Ukrainian commentator has come true and they won't show this Soviet thing. They will show strictly national truth. Russian films on the Rossiya channel are showing a T-34, a film about a real war, which is
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actually not so scary. After all, it's called war, but in reality it's APC. Even on tanks with afterburners, on our tanks, on tanks, on afterburners, on tanks.
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It's funny, by the way, it's important not to forget who helped the Soviet Union defeat that war.
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[music] It's also important to remember the outcome of the war. They will be a small detail. SS man Jaeger speak German, I won't kill you, brother, what's wrong? Would you have reached out and shaken your hand? Bandera supporters, this is an officer with
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respected people. May 9th is Victory Day, after all, Russia TV channel. I remember, I'm proud of the Russian people.
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The soul and body of a Russian person have such incredible properties when they find themselves in some kind of situation, a sacred thing.
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I'm sure that 95 percent, so to speak, means our allies achieved such feats, and they were simply technically incapable because Russians have a mega-ability. You were born from it right away. You surpass 95 percent. This is the science of genetics. By the way, I
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measured my skull and I just have impurities, besides Russian blood, a Ukrainian bowl. My strength is worse than that of the stars. I'm surpassing them again, but I still cheerfully surpass many. Well, naturally, there are no Russian allies. Why think about
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water, there's education, production, a clearly formulated ideology. You're just so cool from birth, and if the enemy is superior, you'll easily defeat him anyway, and you won't have to pay for such a victory.
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I want him first, and let's go through these places here. The Ukrainian commentator was unhappy with the clothes that became this film.
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I wonder why central channels in Russia initially refused it. The film is native to the Ukrainian SSR.
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He should be given the title of "In Agent" posthumously. How did you not notice? We fought over my Ukraine today, and how can you notice the same fields on the road to the village. No, the air is different,
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but the sky is bluer, the earth is green, and the commander is talking about greenery in Siberia. But then, dear, come on over and have a smoke. We'll see what it is. We sat down there, the Yenisei mountains. I
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saw them. He'll bring them down, and you go. Steel. Video. Let's go. Friendship. Strange. Different nationalities fight together for common interests. What kind of interest is that? Better watch David Icke. We sold out, my friend, for sausages, and I won't come. Our mistakes will be forgotten. The
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feat will remain as feats. Mannerheim, for example. So, who cares? He helped kill a huge number of people during the siege of Leningrad.
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When you were there, he was a hero in the Russian Empire. Why not in the same city?
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Hang a sign, why not the cattle, as usual, didn't appreciate it, although it's time, it's time to learn to forgive, take an example from those who lead us to a bright future, import substitution didn't work out very well,
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but if the orders had been carried out on time, there would have been no problems, flash, what a surprise, they say one thing and do another, it's forgivable, after all, they forgive you all the time, such wage arrears were forgiven, they
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allocated money for Cantilima, he looks like [ __ ], they spent millions, but maybe someone else needs to punish now, what is Liza, you almost devita, didn't watch it, the hero there acted only for his own benefit, which let down most of the
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population of the homeland, but justice and honor are different things, as I found out, does the film do justice here, in general, his friend was a traitor, in general, he was probably right, these are the ideas from which we should take an
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example, learn from this, not these disgusting propaganda ideas of the Soviets, brilliantly more important than our own schools. [laughter] Where, well, what is this, what does this nonsense about humanity consist of? I understand that it is difficult to reconcile this with the current
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realities of life. But still, after the dissatisfaction of viewers and the big media hype, Channel One still deigned to air Bykov's great classic, naturally not in prime time because they were busy with the big premiere of the film Diversa, for the filming of
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which they resurrected Galkin, who died 12 years ago. Hozelock, March. I say Russians are everywhere.
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Russians are everywhere here. You're right, blog, and the ability to create normal children. Cove couldn't be resurrected. He wanted to leave without saying goodbye.
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[music] I won't talk about how the characters changed so dramatically in just a couple of years. You can also watch Stalingrad. Remember, be proud of what the peoples of the Soviet Union fought for. Nothing for the mothe
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[music] I won't talk about how the characters changed so dramatically in just a couple of years. You can also watch Stalingrad. Remember, be proud of what the peoples of the Soviet Union fought for. Nothing for the motherland. You won't say anything about Stalin for
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hair. And of course, you need to know what they fought for. Three dashes. The dictatorship of small shopkeepers.
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No need to defend your points of view. The fate of the motherland is nothing from eternity. Just raise your hand in honor of whoever is doing this.
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Just shout Heil Hitler for you. Everything will immediately become clear. Some strange thoughts. Why? He showed something like this, everyone knows that they fought because in India all the [ __ ] cost 6 rubles. Just imagine them doing a month at the same time with these six
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hands, bro, I got an erection. Well, after that, I do n't even want to watch these Soviet classics with these soulless characters.
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And if there are different nationalities there, it's also awkward. Who carried the case, planted it, bro, I myself beat the trees on my tailbone, cotton wool, everything here, I support you, and there with an axe and hot borscht and fresh ones in
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rams but you're silent, it's hard, my dear. I wonder at the end of this film it will become clear which of them wanted a six-pack, a [ __ ], an act, a traditional, ordinary woman. I couldn't understand everything. The ranch didn't fight
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[music] We will bring with us our great army, the liberator, prostrate himself and in Berlin. What kind of with us are we talking about? I hope they'll show it on NTV on May 9th. He should have been sitting on so that Augusta, you'll
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quickly figure it out. Orders of the Russian Empire with the St. George ribbon for a feat, he called what the difference is. The Russian Empire, the Soviet Union, Russia, it's all the same. Don't even think about it. Although the logo of the Immortal
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Regiment This is a hot victorious hero wearing a Soviet star. True, if you go out in Tyumen, Soviet paraphernalia is banned. You can only bring the Russian flag and a certified victory flag.
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We remember and are proud of May 9th. Yes, many soldiers of the Imperial Army fought heroically on the side of the USSR after the revolution, and the state gave them their due. But on May 9th, we must remember other heroes with a
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different message. A blogger, as it turned out, is patronage. The government can kill your family. They can put you in jail. What year did the Boltons send arrows? They burned down the farmstead, and they burned down your mother
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again with the kids. Our faith was messed up. We then imprisoned Shiva himself. He was imprisoned for four years. He sat there until they sorted it out. The same mistake above, of course. And you'll be shot twice. But I heard that during
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their heyday, a hero was a couple of times, and the wounded were finished off.
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The second revolution replaced execution with a prison term. [The sentence is incomplete and likely a mistranslation.] ...
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They're imposing it, it's not clear. Thank you, at least. This year, the Russian film "I Serve the Soviet Union" didn't show where the bunnies who saved the Motherland were killed.
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Because Lavrentiy Beria couldn't have sex, I'll launch it on the grave. If May's beds are already binaries, I'll like it, but we don't demolish Lenin monuments. Got it? Ukrainians, we honor our common memory. By the way, we treasure this
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common memory so much that we wrap it in all sorts of things, hiding it from public eyes so that our views don't ruin it. I wish someone would show us how to honor and remember what Ukrainians forgot about Kovpak. For example, your
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chicken ataman was friends with us. Yeast. Have you heard about this? Vaneyev's skills are in the ground, 120 marks, and you have three tents, three hundred and three seas.
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Answer directly. What is this? However, we have n't shown such a film either. What's new about its heroes? The film was made entirely from documents, though it was filmed with taxes. The film has no relation to a real historical figure and carries
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completely different ideas . A solid Russian Golgotha, but this isn't the Ukrainian demolition of the monument to Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya. In the end, yes, this is something completely different. This isn't the destruction of memory, this is its substitution. New film stories are also
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possible, and biblical motifs can be discerned. Victory was forged for the sake of certain abstractions and spiritual values. And there's no emphasis on which ones exactly. In general, what you like is what we choose, although we'll see. It's already become
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traditional to show it on June 22, the day of the Third Reich's attack on the Soviet Union, on the day of remembrance and sorrow with a significant yet solemn day. We sincerely congratulate you all. What could be better?
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Congratulations on June 22 with the beginning of the war. Scooters aren't the main channels. The parties still manage to show decent films that more or less reveal that war and the goals of the parties. Gentlemen, it carries out natural selection, cleansing the
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earth of inferior lower races, but in prime time it always puts some tanks, as the director said.
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His film about the Great Patriotic War is like Max's. Few people know about it, but this is one universe of the immortal. There were also awards, remember, be proud of them, and remember this, and they suggest being proud of them on May 9th. The flags are the same, the
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uniform is the same, so the meaning is the same, by the way, it's like if you stick a star on the space industry, it will make the same leap it made when the first man was launched into space.
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Viewers diligently distract from the filling with the wrapper. The main thing is to not think about it, don't figure it out, don't study history. And on Victory Day, on the central channel, you will watch an SS man drinking on equal terms with
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Red Army soldiers because back then they fought not for ideas, but because some were good and others were bad. Such an interpretation is very convenient and can be endlessly used in any reality and for any purpose. Well, personally, on
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May 9th, Victory Day, I would like to congratulate Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Kazakh and Uzbek, Tatar, Jewish, Georgian, Azerbaijani and Armenian, and a huge number of other peoples on the fact that together they were able to stand against an enemy who, in the interests of a
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privileged minority, wanted to enslave, exploit, and destroy the unworthy majority. Some de jabot are stronger. younger or worked until they died, the data itself, which died from and the desire of some, hammered any class of dirt, and it is important that those who
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opposed this, after all the pain and all the tragedies, did not become a mirror of their enemy, who justified himself with his own superiority and decided who was worthy and who was not. Instead, they continued to promote their creative
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image of the future. From appeared and we did this, they did it, from and became an assistant then come here, stroy, you will also say that I am a fascist or something, and you don’t feel sorry for the grapes, then this is
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shivaree, serve him, it’s not pain, they don’t hear him and he didn’t plow and you only like to eat grapes, but as we see, the time has come for other films and other memories, each has their own, and each is
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special and truer than the other, only this new, special, true victory, which will continue to be exploited, has nothing to do with that very victory and with the victor, that at the front only a selfish person later became a [ __ ] that he lived like a human being, I
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wrote for him to be a human being so that he would not have to Sip what I want, so that cheap stuff doesn't come out of it, my hands, what should I give you, and your holiday, Perry, my bread,
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Perry, my sugar, herring and everything that is supposed to be on a winter road, I have nothing else, to the winner whom I remembered what he fought for and what he paid for it, time will pass, people from building cities,
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villages, our wounds, but will never fade, the fierceness right up to the Soviet man, we won, decide the accident of a new life, this is precisely the winner who should be glorified on Victory Day, but now every nation has
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its own winners, and state television, to their glory, really, they bring completely different ideas, one can only hope for ordinary people who will finally stop being deceived by the wrapping and help others understand what kind of filling they are offered on
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Victory Day, those who fought and died for freedom and happiness of people probably saw the sky and the earth, the sun and birds, like this, in the prime of life, they are destined to step into the new 21st century, what will the
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new century of the earth be like
Topics:Victory DaySoviet UnionWWIIRussian mediaUkrainian mediawar filmshistorical memorypropagandanationalismpost-Soviet
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