"Fearless Admiral Kolchak": What is a historical perspective

Clarissa 2022-01-24 08:04:59

In 2004, the Russian Constitutional Court transferred the Kolchak redress case to the military court for the last hearing. This time, it finally succeeded. Amidst the curses of former Soviet veterans and left-wing politicians, Kolchak’s last stop in his life, Irkutsk erected his monument.

The evaluation of Kolchak on Wikipedia is very objective, an innocent political victim and an idealistic patriot. In the film, when the sailor remonstrated, Kolchak sank his officer's saber into the Black Sea. This became a turning point in his life. The saber, a symbol of military honor, sank in the water just as his body was thrown into Anga. Sad as a river. In fact, it is Kolchak's idealistic patriot characteristics that made him an innocent victim of politics. With Kolchak's military talents, he must have had an accurate assessment of the strength of this army before becoming the leader of the so-called White Guard. The elite of Tsarist Russia died out as early as the February Revolution. How could the so-called 500,000 White Guards be able to rival the new but crazy Red Soviets? Moreover, no matter how destructive a gun is, it cannot destroy a powerful political machine.

Perhaps Kolchak had thought of his ending from the beginning, so he remained calm until the last moment. Kolchak fought with the loyalty of soldiers, but this was not a war. It was actually a political storm where all forces gathered and wrestled. The betrayal of the Czech Legion and the betrayal of the French allies in the film are just a microcosm. In the last war of his life, Kolchak came to the wrong battlefield. In this storm, his sincerity to the Russian nation was too small. Up. Kolchak believes in the same as his enemies, and is fighting for the motherland in his heart. Maybe his beliefs are not as systematic and huge as the Bolsheviks, but the belief is very simple, as long as you are sure of it yourself.

Before Kolchak, another famous White Guard general named Denikin was rehabilitated earlier. During the heyday, the White Guards under the command of Denikin even attacked as far as 200 kilometers from Moscow. Later, an open letter drafted by Lenin "Everyone Go Fight Denikin!" "Inspired by the powerful spirit of ", more than 200,000 workers and peasants joined the party and rushed to the front line. Deney King's ministry was wiped out, and he himself went into exile overseas and eventually died in the United States. Perhaps it was because Denikin acquiesced in the Soviet intelligence agencies to organize exiled Belarus to fight against fascism, or because Denikin personally called on Russians around the world to unite and fight for the nation after the outbreak of the Great Patriotic War. In the Soviet Union in the 1980s, In the history textbooks published in the 1940s, the view of Denikin began to change, and the words "patriotic general" appeared. In October 2005, Denikin was reburied in Moscow as a patriotic general. In this way, the so-called redress is not pure. Kolchak and Denikin's conclusions still need to be completed by politicians who have brought them infamy and shame. Even so, even if the Kolchak statue erected by Irkutsk is based on the realistic purpose of hoping to restore maritime supremacy, we can at least see a relatively real Kolchak, which is enough. Fortunately, the glory of humanity in Kolchak's life is not like the hundreds of tons of gold he sank in Lake Baikal that year, never seeing the sun.

If we can't get a clear view of the so-called historical figures through the layers of fog, it is better to treat them as ordinary people. At the end of the film, Kolchak’s lover Anna was finally released after 37 years of life in a concentration camp. Anna came to a filming scene that people wanted to be called gay. In a grand ball scene, she remembered that Kolchak still owed her a dance. In the panic, Anna knocked down a wine glass, just like the one she knocked down when she and Kolchak first met, the sound of the wine glass when it fell to pieces was still clear and sweet. If life is just like seeing it at first time, what is the matter of autumn wind painting a fan. Whether it's you, me, or those so-called big people, we are all flesh and blood people. We all have our loves and feelings, and we all have things we stubbornly pursue.

At this point, the article should have ended, but I also want to talk about our country. In today's political climate, we are still unable to achieve national reconciliation across ideologies like Russia. But there are some people and things that we should not forget, and we are not qualified to forget. The so-called history should not only be left between the lines in a book. In our hearts, history should also have a solemn position. After the founding of the nation, we experienced the Korean War, the Vietnam War, and several counterattacks on the border. How many people buried their bones in a foreign land, but we always quietly ignored this. October 25th marks the 60th anniversary of the Volunteer Army's entry into the Korean War. The headline of the article on the front page of Southern Weekend was "Every Martyr Has a Name", a report on the search for a list of 180,000 aided Korean martyrs. It has been 60 years, for a full 60 years, we are about to find the names of all 180,000 martyrs. This is not an honorable thing. At the end of this report, I saw my eyes wet inexplicably. There were two sentences in it. I was impressed. A descendant of a martyr went on a business trip to the United States. He was shocked by the Korean War Memorial in Washington, “They value life so much.” The descendants of this martyr said with emotion. The researcher of the Dandong Archives, who was in charge of the need-to-find list, said to reporters facing the martyrs’ relics: “People were very simple back then, and now this spirit is gone.” Sometimes I really feel that this society is terrible now. Aside from the simple appearances such as reality, indifference, and selfishness, our spiritual world is drying up. After material abundance, we should have turned to the pursuit of spirit, but what about us? We still want to make our lives easier, and we want to give up more things. "Private も how many 守ってきた." This Japanese sentence is the most commonly spoken by those weak and small names in the Warring States Period in Japan when facing persuasion to surrender. Translated into Chinese, it means "I also insisted on it." But where is our persistence? Every year there are special days, some of the 1.3 billion people will unanimously pay homage to their dead relatives, and their relatives will die for this country. On these special days, most of us turned a blind eye to this and still acted wantonly. The souls who have left the world will not care about these red tapes. Our memory of them is more like a warning to ourselves. Not only is we grateful, but more importantly, we respect life and distinguish between beauty and ugliness. If not, one day our brains will be empty, and we will be ruthlessly swallowed by the world when we are weak.

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  • Ena 2022-04-24 07:01:23

    for the white knight

  • Bennett 2022-01-24 08:04:59

    This kid bought 16 tons of gold from the Central Bank of Tsarist Russia and bought weapons from Japan. He was shot before he got the weapon, and the Japanese made a big deal.