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ok, russian boy here! had privilege to talk to veterans of Great Patriotic War (WWII is not often used in russia as WWII for soviet union and slavic people, and a lot of asian people living in it was existential matter, german fascists were planning to exterminate us all in the end, and killed a lot of civilians during the war, probably only the japanese imperial fascist killed more civilians during the war in asia) and the dialog from this episode is kind of bad.
people at the time (regular folk, politicians are entirely different matter) although did not discount the possibility of war, did not really thought it will happen. and did not really talked about it.
the other thing, after the revolution clergy did got hit hard for antirevolutionary sentiment (my ancestors on mother side pretty much all of them were either clergy or rarer doctors during this time) but anyone from clergy who was not opposed to the revolution were left to do what they want. even some of the misappropriated church actives (art, jewelry, churches itself) were returned to clergy there it was possible (a lot of churches were demolished though, far from majority, but still, people were mad at clergy as a part of the czarists regime and, well, clergy was a propaganda machine in the empire). so the member of the clergy at the time would've been perfectly fine with communists, pretty much whole country was. and quite a few members of the clergy left to become civil servants and join party, some of my ancestors did that.
yet another point against authenticity: WWI was never called that at the time, it was usually called Imperialist War.
sniper scope on the rifle is also strange thing to see, optics were rare and quite expensive, even the most prolific snipers of the war like Vasily Zaitsev, who's story was bastardised in "Enemy at the Gates", never saw scope before joining red army and even when used the weakest scope available as he was mostly used to shoot without using one, so the MC would've probably hunt without one as pretty much all of the hunters at the time.
right now this manga is not offensive to the history, but hardly authentic. Although village and how people dressed is ok-ish. could've been done better. nope, read a bit more and scratch what, this manga makes fuck all sense, MC is on occupied territory, yet somehow wants to go to uni in Moscow. how? to get from occupied territory into rest of the soviet union was, well, hard. also, she is young. on occupied territory by the nazis. girl. young. do I need to tell you what you really would not like to be young female on occupied territory? there were a lot of dangers for young girls. and rape wasn't even the most grim. in my city, for example, nazis often snatched kids to use all of their blood for blood transfusions. in several child hospitals in the area all the kids were taken away in gazenwagens. kids of age around 15 were routinely taken away to germany and nazi controlled territories to work as ostrabaiters, some did not managed to cope with it and took their lives. not to mention that many who were suspected to be jewish were just killed.
"collective punishment" for the village only suspected with working with partisans (guerillas if you like it better) were a thing, usually though people were rounded up in a barn and burned alive. you might google Khatyn for more on the subject.
So yeah, young, female, can use a gun (should I tell you germans pretty much disarmed all civilians everywhere they occupied?) on an occupied territory in 1942? what the actual fuck did she does in the village still, she either should hide with partisans or fight with them.
ok another non authentic thing is "fritz" as stand in for "german", it's american. russian was "hansik" ("гансик" diminutive for Hans)
it's kinda bad. not offensive but still, bad. but what the hell did you expect from japanese author when even in russia most modern stuff on GPW is usually bad (mostly because of politics)
people at the time (regular folk, politicians are entirely different matter) although did not discount the possibility of war, did not really thought it will happen. and did not really talked about it.
the other thing, after the revolution clergy did got hit hard for antirevolutionary sentiment (my ancestors on mother side pretty much all of them were either clergy or rarer doctors during this time) but anyone from clergy who was not opposed to the revolution were left to do what they want. even some of the misappropriated church actives (art, jewelry, churches itself) were returned to clergy there it was possible (a lot of churches were demolished though, far from majority, but still, people were mad at clergy as a part of the czarists regime and, well, clergy was a propaganda machine in the empire). so the member of the clergy at the time would've been perfectly fine with communists, pretty much whole country was. and quite a few members of the clergy left to become civil servants and join party, some of my ancestors did that.
yet another point against authenticity: WWI was never called that at the time, it was usually called Imperialist War.
sniper scope on the rifle is also strange thing to see, optics were rare and quite expensive, even the most prolific snipers of the war like Vasily Zaitsev, who's story was bastardised in "Enemy at the Gates", never saw scope before joining red army and even when used the weakest scope available as he was mostly used to shoot without using one, so the MC would've probably hunt without one as pretty much all of the hunters at the time.
"collective punishment" for the village only suspected with working with partisans (guerillas if you like it better) were a thing, usually though people were rounded up in a barn and burned alive. you might google Khatyn for more on the subject.
So yeah, young, female, can use a gun (should I tell you germans pretty much disarmed all civilians everywhere they occupied?) on an occupied territory in 1942? what the actual fuck did she does in the village still, she either should hide with partisans or fight with them.
ok another non authentic thing is "fritz" as stand in for "german", it's american. russian was "hansik" ("гансик" diminutive for Hans)
it's kinda bad. not offensive but still, bad. but what the hell did you expect from japanese author when even in russia most modern stuff on GPW is usually bad (mostly because of politics)
