Are you still Russian, or already gay?

Date: 2010-05-09 07:29 pm (UTC)
Yep. I squeed to her about the scene, translated it, and she wrote fic for it. I loved it too, somehow, but pssssst ;) I also have written one, set in 1930, it's in gamma stage, read: me being too cowardly to post it. Not even because of the quality of writing, but well, it's Nazi Slash. *aherm*
And you're quite right, the tank shots/building explosions shots are documentary footage, and they were inserted after the censors griped that the film didn't show enough heroism of the Sowjet people or whatever - fact is, they added them post-production, and they weren't planned.
Hm, male affection - there is certainly loads of it, is what I can say. I have grown up in a post-Sowjet country, and both men and women, if they are family OR close friends, are indeed very VERY touchy-feely, compared to Germany anyway. Homosexuals weren't actively pursued either - it simply wasn't talked about. So, if you saw two men kissing, and there was no obvious tongue-involvement, you'd think "friends". Nobody looked twice at men cuddling, either, particularly in war-times. There was no restriction, like, "you shouldn't do that, that could be perceived as gay", simply because, as far as people were concerned, homosexuality did not exist. Or, if you saw a guy sitting on a park bench and knitting, you'd think less of his masculinity, and maybe frown, but you wouldn't think he has sex with other men.
Bit like that...
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