Nevsky/Stalin

[Ya Sam]

>
>Yeah, he should've been represented by someone with a steno pad.
>
>The Russians weren't prone to glorifying anyone, let alone a lowly  
>secretary.

BTW, Stalin WAS a lowly secretary in the beginning, that is why he wasn't 
taken that seriously by his political rivals and then it was too late. 
However, that wasn't my meaning here (see my previous message about the use 
of the article, I used it to denote his official post, meaning that it was 
political not military and in 1938 Russia was still out of war with 
Germany).

I didn't say that the Russians 'weren't prone to glorifying anyone', so 
that's not fair, Keith. They were and are, just like the Americans, the 
French, the Germans and any other nation. But the thing is, Soviet directors 
didn't need Alexander Nevsky to glorify Stalin, he was glorified as himself, 
there were films made about Stalin in which he appeared as, well, Stalin. In 
every city there was his monument. His portraits were hung everywhere. Poets 
composed eulogies to comrade Stalin. These were glorifications of Stalin. 
However, 'Alexander Nevsky' wasn't.

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