The cartoon "Polygon"

[Susexx]

Anti-war movie. Made in USSR. Old cartoon.

[krashkart]

Interesting.

[Platapus]

that's a pretty creepy video.

[UnderseaLcpl]

I have a question for you, Susexx, if you would be so kind. Why is it that so many Soviet films are so fatalistic? I've watched a number of Soviet war films, anti-war films, and even dramas and the like, but it seems like everyone always dies in the end. Does no-one in Russia have a sense of optimism?

[Platapus]

Originally Posted by UnderseaLcpl

I have a question for you, Susexx, if you would be so kind. Why is it that so many Soviet films are so fatalistic? I've watched a number of Soviet war films, anti-war films, and even dramas and the like, but it seems like everyone always dies in the end. Does no-one in Russia have a sense of optimism?

If you lived in the old Soviet Union, would you have any sense of optimism?

[UnderseaLcpl]

Originally Posted by Platapus

If you lived in the old Soviet Union, would you have any sense of optimism?

I don't know, I never lived in the Soviet Union. I've heard some former Soviets who hated the Socialist Republics and some who pine for the lost Union. I have no kind of context with which to understand their mentality. That's why I'm asking the Russian, numnuts

[Susexx]

Originally Posted by UnderseaLcpl

I have a question for you, Susexx, if you would be so kind. Why is it that so many Soviet films are so fatalistic? I've watched a number of Soviet war films, anti-war films, and even dramas and the like, but it seems like everyone always dies in the end. Does no-one in Russia have a sense of optimism?

When there was Soviet Union not it is necessary was to be the optimist or the pessimist, all was excellent. Factories worked, people lived, worked, fell in love, died. A normal rhythm of a life. There was to spit on a dollar exchange rate, cost of oil knew nobody, to serve in army was honourable and it is interesting. Institutes let out the best in the world of doctors, builders, military... And films and books with a bad ending were that people understood that all this paradise not simply so, it can soon come to an end. Then to the power has come to bitch-Gorbachev both simple and peace people became slaves, yes slaves... I would like to live further in Soviet Union and to accept from Europe and America only good and to share only good, without these idiotic Cold Wars.

p/s The Russian person always in an image of any barbarian is a pity to me that. In all politicians are guilty, they and create images of people. History repeats itself and I hope there will be still a revolution and will live again well.

[kiwi_2005]

Its always the pessimistic ones you have to be weary off. When I think of russians the first thing that comes to mind is WW2 and how they pushed back the fascist out of their motherland and marched right into Germany like true conqueror's. If that aint optimism then what is?

At Allied conferences the squat, pockmarked, non intellectual Stalin looked unimpressive. But he was a wily negotiator. Britain's Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden wrote: 'If I had to pick a team for going into a conference room, Stalin would be my first choice...."He never stormed, he was seldom even irritated. Hooded, calm, never raising his voice...he got what he wanted.

[Reece]

Originally Posted by Platapus

that's a pretty creepy video.

More like nuts!!

[UnderseaLcpl]

Thanks for those observations, HT.