An open
letter to the editors of the wsws web site
Dear Sirs,
I am a Russian
living in (East) Germany since 1983. I was born in 1956 and remember well
enough what my parents (my father was a soldier in the Soviet Army during the
WW2), my grandparents and many other elderly people who unfortunately are now
dead, told me about the times of the WW2. Therefore I am immune against the present
efforts by capitalist propaganda to viciously defame the Soviet Union. On the
other hand, I have no illusions about the despotic rule of Mr. (not
"comrade"!) Stalin and consider it as an anti-communist regression
into the tsarist past.
Generally I
enjoy reading the articles published by wsws. Unfortunately the film review
"Beanpole (Dylda): Disturbing scenes of post-war Soviet life" by Ms. Clara
Weiss ( https:// www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/07/17/dyld-j17.html ) is a very
different kettle of fish. First of all, I am convinced that any review advertising
this disgustingly false anti-communist film by the unscrupulous and ignorant putinoid
spit licker and scoundrel Balagov does not deserve to be published by your web
site.
What Ms. Clara
Weiss pathetically tries to "discuss" is plain calumny and lies. I
didn't watch the film, but I know pretty well how dishonest and false are the
films about the Soviet era which are produced now in Putin's capitalist Russia.
This knowledge and the text by Ms. Clara Weiss allow me to tell you confidently
the following:
1) All
those Soviet people who lived through the WW2 remembered the war time not only as
extremely hard, but also as permeated with genuine solidarity and mutual
willingness to help, unseen neither before, nor after the war. You should
know that whereas the wars of the US-imperialism turn GIs into monsters and
psychotics, the righteous war effort of Soviet people made them more humane
towards each other. This was told to me even by an elderly acquaintance of
my parents who was unjustly imprisoned in 1937 and then volunteered to join a
penal battalion of the Soviet army. The first engagement with the enemy was
survived by him and just two dozens of others (out of approx. 150 men), and the
survivors were transferred either into the regular military service or
hospitalized.
2) What a
disgusting psychopathic fantasy of misanthropic jerk Balagov is the scene of a
female nurse strangling a little boy! I must tell you that such atrocities were simply impossible
in the Soviet Union! Putinoid scumbags (Mr. Balagov and his ilk) are handsomely
paid for telling shameless and outrageous lies about the Soviet people depicting
them as murderous monsters, prostitutes and pervs - in order to brainwash the
young generation of Russians, to make them believe that the Soviet past was no
better than the horrible inherently criminal and psychopathic reality of capitalism
in present-day Russia with all its monsters plus corruption and lawlessness of
officialdom and bitter misery of the people...
3) Concerning
the sexually perverse scenes in this film reported by Ms. Clara Weiss: I must tell
her that there was an overwhelming aversion among Soviet people against
homosexualism. Well, there was a lot of promiscuity after the WW2, because far
too many men were killed in action, and a certain part of the survivors preferred
not to marry but to use this opportunity for having simultaneous sexual relations
with a number of women. But Ms. Clara Weiss must know that even in prison camps
Russian women would rather masturbate than succumb to lesbian perversion. I
heard that from an elderly lady who was imprisoned for 10 years in Stalin's
Gulag. Generally, both men and women in the Soviet Union considered
homosexualism as degrading, as a sign of personal and social failure - as a man
and respectively as a woman.
Summing up:
Ms. Clara Weiss before trying to write anything about the Soviet Union
in WW2, should first learn telling the truth from lies by reading works
of Mr. Simonov, Mr. Sholokhov, Mr. Tvardovski and many others who saw the
horrors of WW2 with their own eyes.
