Stalin’s shadow, work”substantiveAccording to Les Latest News, from Alsace, depicts one of the darkest pages in the history of the 20th century: the Holodomor, a new term coined in Ukraine to describe the destruction by starvation and its intentional nature.
In two years, from the summer of 1931 to the summer of 1933, nearly seven million members of the Soviet Union, the vast majority of them peasants, starved to death in the last major peacetime European famine: 4 million in the Ukraine, 1.5. million in Kazakhstan and the same in Russia.
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Unlike other famines, 1931-1933 was not preceded by a meteorological cataclysm.
They were the direct result of a policy of extreme violence: the forced collectivization of the countryside by the Stalinist regime to drive out the hardy tribes from the peasantry necessary for the accelerated industrialization of the country and the imposition of political control. in rural areas, which until then remained outside the “value system” of the regime.
Released in theaters in 2020, exciting and breathtaking Stalin’s shadowAt once a thriller, a spy film and a history lesson (which allows us to understand the conflict of the war in Ukraine), it tells the story of Gareth Jones, a rookie journalist with no shortage of chutzpah.
After an interview with Hitler, who had just come to power, he went to Moscow in 1933 to question Stalin about the famous Soviet miracle.
On arrival, he becomes disillusioned: anesthetized by propaganda, his Western contacts disappear, he watches himself day and night, and his main intermediary disappears. Then the source convinced him to be interested in Ukraine. Managing to escape, he jumps on a train, en route to an unimaginable truth…
“The world does not know about these crimes”
“I was never asked to make a film about the Holodomor (France recently declared it a genocide). I thought about it for a while and said that there are still many crimes committed by the communist regime that we are not talking about.”– says Polish director Agnieszka Holland.
“The world does not know about these crimes, although the Holocaust is a well-known fact in the history of mankind. Russians and the people of the former Soviet republics do not even talk about the crimes committed in the name of communism, while Stalin killed more. 20 million own citizens!”
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