Russians do good war movies, I’ll give them that.
If you want a pretty off the wall Russian war movie, I watched one called “The Edge”. A guy wants to get an old train engine back in action. There are some flashbacks to the start of the war and some Germans who got caught by surprise while they were in Russia. Pretty weird, but I liked the old trains.
The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming.
“Battle For Sevastopol”. The story of Lyudmila Pavlichenko, the highest scoring female sniper of WWII, with 309 confirmed kills. There are some movie liberties taken, but for the most part it sticks to history. It does a good job of showing how much Soviet civilians suffered during the war. And as it was produced by Ukranians, it pulls no punches about how the Soviet leadership spent their soldiers lives quite cheaply at times.
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Poor bastards have had war pushed on them often enough, even from within when the commies took over.