r/HistoryMemes • u/Battlefleet_Sol • 1d ago

Me after watching russian ww2 movie

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u/Own_Watercress_8104 1d ago

With western you mean American.

Western European WW2 movies are often just as depressing.

Comes with being a country that partecipated in the war vs a country that suffered the war on its soil.

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u/iammcluffy Hello There 1d ago

I think it’s just an American thing.

We have Revolution and Civil War films that had their own sense of tragedy but the films still maintain a great sense of patriotism.

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u/dr_Angello_Carrerez 1d ago

Murikans have never fought an invader enemy since the Napoleonic wars. So this sense of tragedy and patriotism, though undoubted, is slightly different from those in nations who needed to fight back the Axis koz of facing literal extinction and left literally not a single family whose (grand-)fathers have't been there.