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Re: Controversial war film to screen at WIFF despite outcry from Windsor Ukrainian groups (WS Oct. 24)
As a professor of political geography and a specialist on Russia and Ukraine, I would like to weigh in on the documentary film “Russians at War” shown at the Windsor International Film Festival.
This film depicts war from the standpoint of Russian soldiers. What it does not show are the genocidal aspects of this Putin-ordered war that impacts the Ukrainians in the occupied areas: the torture and execution of Ukrainian soldiers who were taken as prisoners of war, the torture of Ukrainian residents and killings of Ukrainian patriots, the deportation of children to Russia for adoption, their Russification and indoctrination to fight Ukrainians.
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Neither does it show the Russian military’s war crimes: targeting Ukrainians in the Ukraine-held areas with the double-bombing of residences (to kill the rescuers), markets (where people gather), and places of culture such as schools, libraries, museums and churches (to destroy Ukrainian culture).
This film sanitizes the Russian invasion, with the war as merely a nasty thing that people suffer.
Ihor Stebelsky
Windsor
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