Latvian Filmmaker Who Witnessed Last Days of the Soviet Union Portrayed in ‘Podnieks on Podnieks’

Podnieks on Podnieks” is the story of a phenomenally influential Latvian documentarian who is remembered by relatively few ...
Moviefone

The Soviet Army Prepares for Action in Afghanistan

The Soviet Army Prepares for Action in Afghanistan is derived from four shots of a Soviet film called Heirs of Victory 1975 which commemorates the Allied triumph over fascism in World War II The ...
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39 vs 250: The Impossible Soviet Stand in Afghanistan

The Soviet-Afghan War raged for nine years and is considered a major part of the overarching Cold War between the US and its allies, and the Soviet Union. A major faction was the Afghan Mujahideen - ...
New York Post

Russian war propaganda film plays to empty theaters

No one in Russia is going to see a Kremlin propaganda film fictionalizing and justifying the invasion in Ukraine. “The Witness,” which premiered across Russia on Aug. 17, has tanked in the box office, ...
Reuters

Thirty years on, some Russians want to reframe Soviet war in Afghanistan

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Thirty years after the Soviet Union left Afghanistan, some Russian politicians are calling for a reassessment of the conflict which critics have long cast as a bloody foreign ...