An excerpt form the popular Russian talk show “An evening with Vladimir Solovyov”. Translated and subtitled by Eugenia. A well-known Russian filmmaker Karen Shakhnazarov discusses the meaning of the WWII memory for the Russian society and the Russian people. The context of the discussion was the proposed constitutional amendments. Translator’s notes: (1) The Soviet division consisted of 10,000 soldiers. (2) The British light cruiser Edinburgh carrying 5.5 tons of the Russian gold as payment for the Western supplies was sunk by a German submarine on its way home from the Soviet port Murmansk in April of 1942. Shakhnazarov mistakenly said that it happened in 1941.
Please make sure to press on “cc” to see the English language subtitles.
Three letters,
I.B.M.
Ford.
Bush.
Predecessors of CIA, MI6…
NASA (never a straight answer).
Without US support the Nazis would have never been able to attack Russia. Hitler was even called a “moderate”. After WW2 US support for the Nazis continued to wage war against Russia. A similiar strategy is being applied by the US empire by supporting terrorists against Russia and Syria while claiming to wage war against terrorists.
“Hitler’s American Business Partners”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmRnPIG50qY
“The outbreak of war in September 1939 resulted inevitably in the full conversion by GM and Ford of their Axis plants to the production of military aircraft and trucks…. On the ground, GM and Ford subsidiaries built nearly 90 percent of the armored “mule” 3-ton half-trucks and more than 70 percent of the Reich’s medium and heavy-duty trucks. These vehicles, according to American intelligence reports, served as “the backbone of the German Army transportation system.”….
After the cessation of hostilities, GM and Ford demanded reparations from the U.S. Government for wartime damages sustained by their Axis facilities as a result of Allied bombing… Ford received a little less than $1 million, primarily as a result of damages sustained by its military truck complex at Cologne… ”
http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=4368
“Author Snell says that Nazi armaments chief Albert Speer told him in 1977 that Hitler “would never have considered invading Poland” without synthetic fuel technology provided by General Motors.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/daily/nov98/nazicars30.htm
“Furthermore, although Hitler’s rhetorical commitments and actions were completely public, internal U.S. government documents from the 1930s refer to him as a “moderate.”
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U.S. investment in Germany accelerated rapidly after Hitler came to power, despite the Depression and Germany’s default on virtually all of its government and commercial loans. Commerce Department reports show that U.S. investment in Germany increased some 48.5 percent between 1929 and 1940, while declining sharply everywhere else in continental Europe.”
http://representativepress.blogspot.de/2004/09/hitler-history-lesson-banagor.html
“Hitler’s Shadow: Nazi War Criminals, U.S. Intelligence, and the Cold War”
http://www.archives.gov/iwg/reports/hitlers-shadow.pdf
https://youtu.be/If8YR9YAsv8
Rabbi tells the truth

1938 News Report Confirms International Jewish Banker Financial War Aims
https://justice4germans.wordpress.com/2014/12/15/1938-news-report-confirms-international-jewish-banker-financial-war-aims/
The Nazis Gave Rothschild Bankers The Boot
https://justice4germans.wordpress.com/2012/10/13/hitler-was-a-jew-a-rothschild-really/
German-Jews Against International Atrocity Propaganda (1933)
https://justice4germans.wordpress.com/2013/04/04/german-jews-against-international-atrocity-propaganda-1933/
The Russian people don’t like to fight or go to war but when they do they fight to the death. They’re not afraid to die. The Westerners like to fight or go to war but they’re afraid to die. Who do you think will win if the west attacks the Russians?
”The Westerners like to fight or go to war but they’re afraid to die. Who do you think will win if the west attacks the Russians?”
Rather, Westerners like it when mercenaries of their terrorist governments bring death and destruction to peoples that need to be cowed by the Empire. Plus the Western staple diet of corporate, fascist misculture. But, yes, their fear of death is a very correct observation.
In the 21st century, a Western victory over Russia will never be achieved militarily. It rests upon the successes of Russia’s treasonous Liberals; that’s precisely how the West won the ”Cold war”.
No, Westerners do NOT like to fight or go to war, there has never, ever been a referendum on whether to go to war.
It is the elite class who wish to make more money through wars. They get the taxpayer to pay the costs, they take the profits themselves.
Privatisation of profits, socialisation of costs.
Same old story.
Eugenia, our deepest thanks for this video and excellent translation and subtitles. We are in debt to you.
Historical truth resurrected on Easter at the Vineyard.
The fascist lies from the Europeans of late has been sickening regarding the heroics of the Russian people and the sacrifices of the USSR citizens.
This synopsis in video format is just so perfect.
Shakhnazarov may be a filmmaker, but he delivers a succinct seminar in historical veracity.
Checking Shakhnazarov’s film credits, I thought I had seen the name. “White Tiger”, a film I saw a few years back, when it was presented for Oscar consideration for best foreign film. It didn’t make it (Russophobia rules Hollywood), but it was a very well-crafted film by Shakhnazarov.
My career in film began studying the masters, Eisenstein and, especially, Pudovkin. And then along my early years I had a lot of interaction with Russian animated films.
The Russian Cinema is as good as any, older than most, and just needs to be freed of the Liberals dominating it.
White Tiger was one of the most riveting, challenging, fascinating films I’ve ever seen. It’s closing scene left me sitting unmoving for minutes.
I used to love watching “Evening” with Solovyev, but it seems YouTube – if that’s who it is – no longer brings it with English subs, neither 60 mins nor Kiselyov. They were my tie to Russia as seen by Russians, now gone.
Select “Subtitles/Closed captions” then “Settings” then “Auto translate” the select “English”. It’s a machine translation but works well with some language pairs. Some videos don’t offer support sometimes, no idea why.
Thank you Стивен.
Do you mean on a YouTube production? I find it hard even to find these shows in Russian on YouTube anymore, but I have tried the auto-translate, and it’s utterly useless I’m afraid. It produces meaningless garbage which serves only to irritate.
I have to assume that these channels are producing parts of their shows with English subs themselves, it’s just that they seem not to know that YouTube has blocked them, as it has so much else.
I am subscribed to a number of political channels, RT, these Russian ones, others, and not one ever comes up on my Index. I get a load of music, animal rescue, ,recipes and that’s about it.
It’s infuriating. I wish I knew how to access the ones like this one here, with excellent subtitles. But I dont, :-)
” I had a lot of interaction with Russian animated films”
You must have seen the utterly delightful “Hedgehog in the Mist” then Larchmonter. Made for children, and it enchanted me.
Pamela,
It is a charming film, for children and the child inside adults. Like any good children’s tale, it leaves one with the appetite for “again”.
A link with subtitles:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThmaGMgWRlY
Shakhnazarov’s being a filmmaker is just his way being the THINKER.
Our primal fear is fear of dying. What comes after?
Well, what came before?
What came during?
What do we honestly think will be next?
What does our Lord say?
What was shown us?
I ve just found out it is possible to se the whole White Tiger film in youtube
The Vesti channel on Youtube has a few English subtitle translations and Vladimir Soloviev is one of the best shows, along with 60 Minutes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bg93qbKKlM&list=PLUZCf1bb0ZAoFIMRAdCXaIGEm2Hlaz3bA
Another great Soviet film is 17 Moments of Spring, which is a documdrama about Allen Dulles and the Nazis attempt to creates a united front against the USSR with Berlin nearly surrounded and about to fall to the Soviets.
A Soviet deep undercover spy prevents it from happening.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1Fi7vLLV-g
Just finished reading a book about Olivetti, the Italian type writer company. The CEO during WW2, Adriano Olivetti befriended Allen Dulles (or rather so he thought), post war the company became one of, if not the leader of personal computers ruffling the feathers of such giants as IBM. Adriano died suddenly on a train to Switzerland in 1960.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adriano_Olivetti
https://www.npr.org/2019/11/07/776834206/the-mysterious-affair-at-olivetti-attempts-to-find-a-cold-war-conspiracy
“The population of the coalition fighting against the Soviet Union was 290 million”.
This is just wrong. It MAY have been half that number, and split into two fronts into the bargain. The Red Army had numerical superiority over the Wehrmacht, and its allies, from beginning to end.
u might check Google “population of Japan” then fill in other countries:
For 1969 figures, Japan 92Milllion, Italy 50 M, Germany 55 M, + nearly 200 M. There were several other “partial allies” who contributed heavily to German war effort .
Why would I do that? Japan was not in combat for the entire duration of the USSR’s war with Germany.
Accusing Iran of being pro-German at that time, that looks like unfounded accusations.
And do not overlook “Come And See” by Elem Klimov.
Thank you very much, excellent subtitles. He makes a very pertinent point about revolutions.
I can still remember the enthusiasm for the Red Army when I was a kid at the end of the war. We had no doubt who had won it.
I am looking at a family book of 1942 war cartoons by Osbert Lancaster the first set in a factory finds a woman in overalls painting on the side of a tank.
“Kick ’em in th”
and the manager saying “Er, very praiseworthy, Miss Fanshawe, but woudn’ t it perhaps be better to write it in Russian?”
I notice this patriotic Russian uses the English word coined for Russia of Eurasia, and separately from “Europe”. since he is seeing Europe as separate to Russia – which indeed it is – I wonder why seems not to question his use of a word which is half “Europe” to label Russia.
Sadly, there seems to be a degree of loss of cultural sovereignty still hanging around in certain circles in Russia. In this regard at least, I think the Russian philosopher Nikolai Starikov is right – Russia lost a degree of Cultural Sovereignty during the Dark Years of 1990’s and hasn’t regained it possibly because she doesn’t realise the loss.
The Saker once wrote that the leading cause of death and injury for soldiers was artillery. “Johnny”, raised on cowboy movies, has a romantic view of war which does not factor this in. Decades of “non peer” conflicts have also insulated him from this reality. I have watched several Russian films about Afghanistan. The thing that stands out to me as a pindo, is the way these films end. All the good guys, or almost all of them, die at the end. Though efforts are made to soften this (“China Beach” style Russian beauties for communications NCO’s), the grim truth remains: Ivan, if we go to war, you probably won’t make it. I guess that’s a “cultural difference”.
Hello,
I wrote this comment after I downloaded the transcript of the Filmaker Solovyov’s comments from Youtube, to examine what he really said. I found his comments remarkably calm and instructive, when in a few words, he sketches out the arc of the revolutionary movement from violent rejection in its first movement, to the change of inclusive acceptance years later. His sparse words also include the mention of and inclusion of two potentially new fronts, which is exactly how a Russian sees the years long assault on his land. Very little is written about these geographic fronts, maybe because they were political, and had not emerged into warfare. Non-Russian writers probably would automatically dismiss the two extra fronts he mentioned, as a figment of paranoia and imagination of the Russians, or as a process of ignorant gaslighting. i.e. the gaslighting is automatically initiated by western writers out of ignorance of the political situation Russians were aware of, was developing against them. His comments also reflect that Russians, like Solovyov, have not gotten over the shock of the evil, that was arrayed against them, and their reaction to that evil, and his words reflect that shock.
It also reflects on how much we don’t know about the arc of events in Russia. The downloaded transcript of Vladimir Solovyov was edited, for clarity, to explain my very late comment.
Solovyov’s comments follow……
In 1991, what took place in our country was a liberal capitalist counterrevolution. And just as in every counterrevolution — the key word here is “revolution”, although I believe it was a counterrevolution — ours was, to a certain extent, necessary.
It brought about some changes critical for our country such as the market economy.
Naturally, as in every revolution, the process was happening in a very radical manner, and accompanied by a complete rejection of everything that preceded it.
The USSR was rejected, and the outcome of the World War II as well. All of us who lived through the 1990s remember the irritation such an attitude was creating. Although most kept silent, the people felt strong internal annoyance that was building up. And today’s (in 2020) ideological reversal matches the people’s understanding of the country’s history and of their place in that history.
To a certain extent, I have to point out, that today’s situation resembles that in the 1930s. At that time, after the October Revolution of 1917, there was also a comeback of sorts : the Christmas tree was returned, and the pre-revolutionary history was beginning to be reinstated.
Remember, after the Revolution, the history of the Russian Empire was completely rejected, and then it was slowly reintroduced, and how this process finally led to the re-introduction of pre-revolutionary military rank insignia. As well as the Aleksander Nevsky and Suvorov medals and so on.
All these processes are in conformity with everything we know about revolutions and their subsequent development. The same happened with the French Revolution. The French abolished everything including even their calendar: after the Revolution of 1793 a different calendar was put in place. However, later things started to reverse, which is a natural historical process.
In our case, the proposed Russian constitution, in my view, (is a marker, a signal that) finishes and formalizes this process. This is very important (to note), for it shows that we have finished passing through that turbulent post-revolutionary – or post-counterrevolutionary – period, and we are now entering our normal historical path.
Clearly, the amendments regarding our past are of utmost importance. As Napoleon once said, a person without a memory is like a fortress with no garrison.
Our (Russian cultural and political) memory is being restored, and for us, obviously, the most important memory is that of the Great Patriotic War, which was at that time severely distorted. During that period, we were repeatedly told that even though we had won that war, we did it somehow in a wrong way and, perhaps, not at all.
And even if we did win, it was only thanks to our allies. Otherwise we would never have won, since it was the allies who actually won the war for us. And, yes, we defeated the enemy by ‘burying them under our corpses’, which was their mantra at that time.
I want to remind you that not just Germany but the Third Reich was at war against the Soviet Union. And, of course, we have to pay tribute to all the brotherly nations of the Soviet Union that fought (alongside us) in that war. The Third Reich was an empire that included almost all of continental Europe. Counting the allies of the Reich, the population of the coalition fighting against the Soviet Union was 290 millions, which exceeded by 1.5 times the population of the Soviet Union.
Much has been said about the Second Front. May I remind you that during the entire (period of the) war the Soviet Union, although it did not conduct military operations in the East, had to maintain 40 division in the Far East, mainly because, Japan had positioned a one million-strong Kwantung Army there, which had been a continuous threat. In reality, the East was a second front, and the Soviet Union had to fight on both fronts at the same time. Furthermore, there was the South Front: Turkey, which was supposed to enter the war on the side of Germany, and the Soviet Union had to station troops there as well. Moreover, Iran was also pro-German. The troops, both ours and the British, we sent to Iran.
Thus, you can imagine the strength of the assault on our motherland.
The third point: all that gang – forgive my vulgar expression – that (Third Reich) “coalition” surpassed the Soviet Union in the size of the economy at least two-fold. The Soviet Union was nowhere near its economic capacity.
Nobody denies the importance of the help from our allies, first of all so-called Lend Lease. However, first, the term “help” is not quite correct, for the Soviet Union paid for the goods and not just after the war, but during the war as well.
As we know, the British cruiser that was sunk in 1941 was carrying gold produced in the Soviet Union and sent as payment for the (war) supplies. Thus, “help” it was not – not quite.
Second, one most important and clear consideration is this. The assault on the Soviet Union was of such magnitude that it was all but impossible to evade.
In this light, Hitler does not at all appear to have been a temporary adventurer or a thoughtless gambler. The Germans intended to finish off the Soviet Union in a month or two.
If that had happened, if Moscow had fallen, then the Empire of the Third Reich would have extended to the Ural mountains. In this scenario, no operation Overlord, no landing in Normandy would have been possible.
The Nazi ideology would have thus reigned for many decades over the enormous territory of Europe and parts of Eurasia. Therefore, we must always remember that the main force that won the war was the Soviet Union and, consequently, Russia. The Russian people were the backbone of the victory, together with other peoples of the Soviet Union.
This victory is (still) unprecedented; there has never been anything like that in the history of the world. END
Solovyov’s comments end…..
FranciscoX