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Opinions on the imposition of a moratorium on portraying Soviet atrocities - Tanya - 06-26-2024
July 17th, 2010
Overly verbose title aside, what are opinions on this?
I had a conversation with Vanya about this issue recently and I'm torn and he has second thoughts. He suggested placing a rule on our Red Army reenactment group against portraying war crimes or any other atrocities against Germans on the grounds that such events are already exaggerated within the collective perception and that portraying them could give the wrong impression.
I don't support any sort of farb to push an agenda but this could be done for counteracting harmful misconceptions that have made their way into public consciousness. I do think that it's problematic to never have portrayals of Soviet brutality anywhere but it seems already very well known. Plus having Soviet reenactors be eager to massacre Germans as revenge for the things they did but never having German reenactors portray anything bad is going to create an extremely inaccurate and one sided impression.
I'm leaning towards prohibiting Soviet atrocities with the exception that they can be allowed if things are negotiated with the Germans in advance where they portray the types of things that they did.