http://www.reuters.com/article/us-ukraine-crisis-russia-library-idUSKBN16M0PW
First, armed police seized some of its books. Next, its director was put on trial accused of stirring up ethnic hatred. And now, quietly, its shelves have been emptied and its volumes packed up, ready to be merged into another library's collection. A year and a half after Russia's only state-run Ukrainian language library, Moscow's Library of Ukrainian Literature, was dragged into a political dispute between the two countries, Reuters has learnt that authorities are quietly winding it down.
Officially, what is happening to the library -- its 52,000 books are being transferred to Russia's main foreign language library -- is "a change of address" not a closure. But the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry, some of the library's employees, and members of Russia's large Ukrainian diaspora say it is a closure in all but name.
Tatyana Muntyan, a library employee, said that even before the transfer its director had reduced opening hours, stopped home lending, halted acquisitions, and made readers show passports to gain entry. The library's director declined to comment. The saga, along with other measures, suggests political differences between Moscow and Kiev are driving a wedge between two peoples whose cultures have been interwoven for centuries. It is likely to stoke Ukrainian fears that their culture, as well as their territorial integrity, is under siege.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by tftp on Monday March 20 2017, @05:33AM
A fine piece of Soviet propaganda, apparently.
I saw this movie many years ago on TV. You can also see it right now on YouTube [youtube.com]. By today's measure the movie is very, very simplistic - at least technically. But it achieved some sort of a cult status. Some quotes from the movie ("эх, коротка кольчужка!") / ("Ahh, the chain mail... too short...") are widely used.
However I see nothing wrong with pride for bravery of ones' predecessors. Europe was rife with wars at that time. Fight or be killed, your choice. Geneva Conventions did not exist at that time, and neither was the UN. Lands and property were acquired "by the right of conquest."