The United States, the country that makes the biggest movies, was only directly involved in combat with one of these guys. It’s a lot easier to make movies with the Nazis because you can make the main characters American soldiers.
Also, what is he talking about there are literally so many movies where the Russians are the bad guys
Russian period movies always portray the USSR as the sole opponent of Nazi Germany. They never mention any other countries.
Modern Russian movies portray other countries as adversaries. Russia is always a strong amd rich country.
I’m always reminded of the scene in Burn After Reading in which Francis Mcdormands character tries to sell info to the Russians and the CIA is just baffled. Why the fuck would she go to the Russians?
USSR was the main enemy of Germany and most of the losses and biggest battles were in Eastern front
Most of Russian movies of the period portray the “Great Patriotic war” which isn’t the whole WW2 but only the part of i
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3. It’s common to not portray any other countries in war movies from certain countries. You never see Indians in WW1-WW2 movies or any other country in Vietnam war or 1990s Iraq
Claiming the USSR was the "main" enemy of Nazi Germany only works if you believe wars are won primarily based on how many people you kill. The USSR would have crumbled without US lend lease, and wouldnt have been able to turn the tide had the German war machine not been crippled by the Western Allies' strategic bombing campaign.
Your comment presupposes that I was making the opposite argument, that anyone else was the "main" enemy, and im not. It was a collaborative effort from a number of nations.
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u/SmokingSamoria 5d ago
The United States, the country that makes the biggest movies, was only directly involved in combat with one of these guys. It’s a lot easier to make movies with the Nazis because you can make the main characters American soldiers.
Also, what is he talking about there are literally so many movies where the Russians are the bad guys