Before the 17th century, this area belonged to Poland, which involved an extremely complex historical entanglement between Poland, Russia and the Principality of Lithuania. During this period, the local Cossack tribes had united with foreign countries several times to get rid of Polish rule, but they were unsuccessful.
From 1772 to 1795, Poland was partitioned by Russia, Prussia and Austria, and Xiwu was incorporated into Russia. The Tsarist government implemented a policy of de-Polishization in the local area, and promoted Russian education and Orthodox Christianity, which made the Ukrainian population here greatly increase over the next hundred years. But the local Ukrainians are mainly farmers, and the Poles are concentrated in the cities and the upper classes of society, and still hold most of the cultural and social resources.
When Poland was restored after World War I, Poland, Ukraine and the Soviet Union competed for territory, leading to the Soviet-Polish War. After the war, the Treaty of Riga was signed, which re-divided the territory of West Ukraine, including Warren, to Poland. After the Polish government took over, it also implemented a compulsory assimilation policy for the local Ukrainians. Therefore, "Ukrainian schools and Orthodox churches are closed", "Ukrainian students need to swear allegiance to Poland to go to university" and "Ukrainian women are persecuted" at the beginning of the wedding. "The land is only sold to the Polish village chief".
Of course, these practices are equivalent to digging a hole for oneself, but Pofang is also stuck in his throat. In addition to Ukraine's own strong national consciousness, the central and eastern Ukraine had been incorporated into the Soviet Union at that time, and the Soviet side took this advantage to facilitate infiltration, so that there have been various counter-wave activities in Western Ukraine. When World War II broke out in 1939, according to the Soviet-German agreement, the Soviet Union sent troops to occupy Xiwu. This is the background of the heroine's husband fleeing from the defeated Polish army and seeing the Orthodox priest along the way instigating the Ukrainians to take up arms, liquidate the Poles, and snatch the property of the manor. However, the purpose of the Soviet side to destroy the Poles was to bring the entire Ukraine into the Soviet Union and carry out collectivization transformation (the plot of throwing away the national flag and exiling the rich peasants).
Soon the Soviet Union turned its face, and the German army moved eastward to occupy Ukraine. The Ukrainians who suffered from collectivization decided to unite with Germany to fight the Soviet Union and seek independence (the Jews were properly sold). But the Third Reich considered them, like the Poles, "inferior people" who needed to be eliminated. It was not until after the Battle of Stalingrad that the German army began to retreat. Both Poles and Ukrainians hoped to get the West Ukraine area after the war, so the bloody tearing began...General historical facts believe that the Ukrainian side started first, and then the Polish side also retaliates, but The number of casualties was dominated by the wave.
During World War II, in the multi-ethnic region of Central and Eastern Europe, it was not uncommon for them to be crushed by the Nazis and kill each other at the same time. The bloody vendetta between the Serbs, the Croats and the Arabs also occurred in the Balkans at that time, and its shadows and scars have continued to the present day. Therefore, rather than stacking up a lot of strong sensory shocks, how to seriously and deeply reflect on these historical tragedies is the problem that this type of film needs to face.
In fact, in Hobsbawm's eyes, in this "extreme age", no matter how tragic the scene is, it is difficult for human beings to have a "long memory" effect. Barbarism and cruelty remain intact, and return to eternity again and again: India and Pakistan in 1948; Cambodia in 1975; Azerbaijan in 1988; Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1992; Rwanda in 1994; Just go and chop off the heads of the old neighbors, and as shown in "Deduction of Killing", when things subside, they go home to eat and sleep as usual, as if the people they ripped apart never existed.
This madness has its own reasons. In the case of this film, the origins can even be traced back to the Middle Ages and beyond. The modern national consciousness is insane, adding sharp material to the original historical grievances, and making the mixed-population areas, which have already become a fact, fall into an unsolvable deadlock. Coupled with some official inappropriate practices: or "specialization" to overly favor or suppress one party, or forcibly smoothing out differences to create a false peace, or "unprincipled" when problems arise, the result has angered everyone. people.
Worst of all, the prospects for preventing an outbreak of the plague are not rosy. Decades of "political correctness" of cultural pluralism have made the trend of emphasizing ethnic differences more and more important than cultivating a sense of identity, and as a result, signs of conflict have reappeared. And most of the people who are moderate on such issues and advocate mutual respect and tolerance are now the Madonna and the White Left, and almost no one cares. At the same time, modern media tools have upgraded the efficiency of traditional "church public opinion" countless times. As long as a piece of news that is not true or false is virally forwarded, the situation may deteriorate sharply within a few hours.
Sometimes I wonder if those who talk more and more fiercely, or think that they must fight, have ever considered, under the premise that they must continue to get along day and night, what is the point of calling them ignorant aliens (if they have already It is completely irresponsible for people who live abroad to do this)? Once the mutual tearing mode is really activated, why must the other party be destroyed instead of oneself? As soon as some people have the right to speak, they put their own words and positions above everything else, and even play with fire unintentionally, thinking that they can’t burn themselves anyway. Some people's tough attitude is just to prevent others from saying that they are cowardly. In the future, when someone says that you are cowardly if you don't go up, they will still go up immediately. Reason is never in their brain circuits.
So back to the original point: after gaining the freedom afforded by modern civilization, some people just want to repeat the concepts and behaviors of the primitive society - the same party and the different. Therefore, the "witch's cauldron" will never go out, and if you are not careful, it will burn more and more vigorously. The hodgepodge full of hatred in it stirs everyone's "savage nature" and may call back an unimaginable bloody storm at any time.
In that hellish mode, goodwill and courage are futile. Whether it is the heroine's lover who saved the mother and child out of her old love, or the heroine's compassion for the Jews hiding, there is a rare hope and humanity that flashes. But when they themselves were shot in the head and chased around, there was no one to save them. People killed them as casually as they stepped on an ant. There is no protagonist halo, no hang-ups, and no miracles. In this way, countless ordinary people have been engulfed in the torrent of history without a trace and become part of a number. After so many years, the world will quarrel endlessly over how much this number is.
It also includes those who play with fire-"Sophie's Choice" wrote that those professors who advocated anti-Semitism before the war in Poland were still shot by the Nazis under the campus wall. You did it to yourself. No one can be a player of hatred and malice, and all that is left is the dark abyss that devours everyone.
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