It's rather amazing that this movie ascribes to Russian Civil War 'White partisans' actions that the movie declares herein to be inhumane... despite the fact that the Communist Party of the Soviet Union engaged in the exact behavior just a decade later than the time this movie portrays.
How could you get away with such? Easy: Soviet inhabitants were never told of the extent of Stalin's mass confiscation of the grain and livestock of Soviet peasant farmers during the 1930s.
Former Soviet operative Viktor Kravchencko, after defecting, detailed this in his memoir "I Chose Freedom," but his memoirs were dismissed by the Soviets and many in the West who wanted to believe that the words of Stalin's Constitution had any meaning. Those in the Soviet Union had to wait until Yeltsin opened Soviet archives for the truth (but Putin has closed these again as he seeks to semi-rehabilitate Stalin).
As a movie this has semi-entertaining antics at times, hence my rating but it is far more of an advertisement for Lenin, Trotsky and even Stalin --- and this was made in 1967! AFTER some of Stalin's colossal crimes had been exposed by Nikita Khrushchev and others).
How could you get away with such? Easy: Soviet inhabitants were never told of the extent of Stalin's mass confiscation of the grain and livestock of Soviet peasant farmers during the 1930s.
Former Soviet operative Viktor Kravchencko, after defecting, detailed this in his memoir "I Chose Freedom," but his memoirs were dismissed by the Soviets and many in the West who wanted to believe that the words of Stalin's Constitution had any meaning. Those in the Soviet Union had to wait until Yeltsin opened Soviet archives for the truth (but Putin has closed these again as he seeks to semi-rehabilitate Stalin).
As a movie this has semi-entertaining antics at times, hence my rating but it is far more of an advertisement for Lenin, Trotsky and even Stalin --- and this was made in 1967! AFTER some of Stalin's colossal crimes had been exposed by Nikita Khrushchev and others).