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Originally Posted by ThaVirus
A bit off topic, how did Russia become a superpower and maintain such prominence throughout the bloodshed?
It's a large country but seems a vast portion of it is a barren wasteland. What isn't a wasteland suffers some of the harshest winters known to man. They've been involved in some of the bloodiest wars. They've lost a shit ton of working age men.
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The other factor that has helped them win when they were on the brink of defeat was overconfidence by their attacker. Twice they’ve been getting their ass kicked only to be saved by the brutal weather of their country.
And to stay on the thread topic, while the movie was great, and borderline fantastic it didn’t quite get the same character development of the best war movies. Saving Private Ryan, Apocolypse Now, Platoon and Mini-Series like Band of Brothers are on a different level.
I thought Dunkirk was very good, but more on par with films like Fury, Jarhead, or Black Hawk Down.