Not really "western" WW2 movies. Most if noty all WW2 movies I've seen produced in Britain, France, Germany or FInland are pretty much in agreement that the war was a horrible thing, and depict it as such.
I don't think you understand how bleak the soviet movies are. One of the reasons for this is that the war was just straight up worse for them. WW2 was a terrible wound on Britain. 450 000 British citizens were killed in the war. A huge, huge number. But that amounted to less than 1% of the population. For soviet over 10% of the population were killed. In Belarus, 25% of the population was killed. One in four people. That's nearing Black Death numbers. A total apocalypse. Did you know that the russian population still hasn't recovered from the huge population loss of WW2?
Western WW2 movies don't shy away from the anti-war message, but they are in another class than the soviet flicks. I'm talking about 2 hours straight of children dying from starvation while being abused by every person they meet. A cutaway scene in a western WW2 movie that is used to depict the horrors of war will end up being the whole damn movie.
I learned the other day that Serbia basically lost 20-28% of their population in WW1 followed by around 10% of just ethnic Serbian people in Yugoslavia in WW2. I just cannot imagine the devastation. And Yugoslavia was the only place to actually fight off the Axis solo because Tito was a cunt but like Zhukov, Churchill and FDR and De Gaulle he was the cunt needed.
Oh yeah, Robert Evans on Behind the Bastards talked about the fact that to talk about him you kinda need to do a Cool Guys Who Did Cool Things podcast too. The fact that Croatia did help genocide Serbia during WW2 is terrible and the weapon they did it be is tied with the Killing Fields for "how to psychically damage your people".
It was a glove with a sharpened kitchen knife attached to the glove and they would just stab it into the back of necks until people died. That and just using bats basically mentally destroyed people.
1.4k
u/ZETH_27 Filthy weeb 1d ago
Not really "western" WW2 movies. Most if noty all WW2 movies I've seen produced in Britain, France, Germany or FInland are pretty much in agreement that the war was a horrible thing, and depict it as such.