Why are the Eastern Front mostly disregarded?

Discussion in 'Books, Films, TV, Radio' started by Morar Andrei, Dec 14, 2017.

  1. Morar Andrei

    Morar Andrei Active Member

    Such as the west europeans and americans, east europeans also made some films about the Great War, some being very good. But I can see that many people do not appreciate them, or not even know about. Most of the films I've seen on TV, are presenting the same content: "nothing about East, all about western front". Maybe is just the material, mostly coming from the communist era (Romania, my country, for example did the same to be honest gloryfing some of his heroes, but after 1995 we had in interesting WW1 movie about the Eastern Front in 1917 and the battles of Marasti, Marasesti and Oituz, considered to be the harshest from that front in 1917 and mentioned alongside the most important battles of the entire war). The movie I was reffering to as an example of eastern one is called " The Triangle of Death" ("Triunghiul Morții"), made after 1995, talking about the three main battles of the eastern front in 1917. That movie doesn't glorify for example the romanians, because this is many times a problem of the war movies from this are, there also being scenes with platoon squads executing their own commanders, generals who betray and join to the enemy, the fear of being just a peasant who was brought to the battle just for defending his land, brutal bayonete charges of both sides, pyles of dead bodies of the romanian soldiers and so on. That may look like a bit glorified the scenes depicting the national heroes during battle, but most of their actions, such as the army's are confirmed and really happened. Again, please give a chance to the east! That's why many people from the west of Europe or from America don't even know that countries such as Romania, Portugal, Greece, Bulgaria and so on were involved in the war, most of their knowlidge about WW1 being like "only Western Front happened; they also tried something at Gallipoli, but there was not any activity on other places in Europe"
     
  2. Morar Andrei

    Morar Andrei Active Member

    *Sorry for the mistake from the title. It was supposed to be called "Why are the Eastern Front movies mostly disregarded?"*
     
  3. Rich Payne

    Rich Payne Rivet Counter Patron 1940 Obsessive

    This is a Second World War forum. I don't think that the First World War gets all that much attention on here in general. There are other places more geared up to that.
     
  4. Chris C

    Chris C Canadian

    A few issues come to mind:

    #1 is just that people from these areas didn't fight on the eastern front.
    #2 is the Cold War
    #3 is Russian archives have mostly been unavailable to western researchers
    #4 is very little taught about WW2, at least in Canada and I think the US

    Whoops, didn't realize the original poster was focused on WW1.
     
  5. OpanaPointer

    OpanaPointer Pearl Harbor Myth Buster

    I spoke with a Russian professor back in 1997. He advised me that the Western Front had be considered a side show with the Western Allies doing little or nothing to help the war effort, borne mainly by the USSR and her allies. I gave him a copy of the West Point Atlases of WWII and he was stunned by the amount of territory that had been involved in the fighting.
     
  6. Morar Andrei

    Morar Andrei Active Member

    I know this is a WW2 forum, but this problem is the same for both WW1 and WW2 movies involving Eastern Europe.
     
  7. Morar Andrei

    Morar Andrei Active Member

    No problem! It was adressed for both world wars...
     

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