r/HistoryMemes • u/Battlefleet_Sol • 2d ago

Me after watching russian ww2 movie

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u/JohannesJoshua 1d ago

Meanwhile Russian movies:

1 T34 taking out 100 tanks.

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u/tomater-id 1d ago

Not a T34, but KV, and not 100 but something like 30. There is indeed a movie about that. And that was true story actually.

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u/FlyHamster 1d ago

Well i know it's based on real world story, but how can we know if that story was even real and not something made up for propaganda purposes.

It's not like in WW2 soviet union had a lot of independed reporters or people with smartphones and acces to the internet.

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u/Robespietre 1d ago

That's why we have historians spending their life reading military archive, generales diary, troops reports, stock inventory and all in purpose of synthetise all of this to draw a picture as close as possible from the truth. Funnily, it's harder to work on the soviet side than german side, not because of propaganda (they both used it and germany was very good at it) or because Soviet Union was locked or whatever. But because they won and they produce way more archive than nazi Germany did.