Russia opens new Stalin museum
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Khoroshevo, Tver region - 9 December 2015
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1. Wide of a group arriving for a tour to the museum commemorating former Soviet leader Joseph Stalin
2. Wide of exhibit of a reconstructed room from a typical Russian house from 1940s
3. Mid of museum director Lidiya Kozlova giving a tour
4. Close of a book on a table with title page reading (Russian) Table Calendar 1941
5. Mid of a radio and a samovar
6. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Lidiya Kozlova, Director of the museum:
For our region it's a big event. According to the documents it was Stalin's only visit to the front. And it happened in this region. Here this museum tells about the events that happened near the city of Rzhev during the days of the Great Patriotic War (Russian term for World War Two) and about the events that happened at the Rzhevsko-Vyazemsky bridgehead where Nazis ruled for almost 14 months. And here everywhere around, as Mikhail Ivanovich Nozhkin (a Soviet actor and writer) said, great, tough and long battles were happening.
7. Wide of exhibit of room
8. Mid of Kozlova giving a tour
9. Mid of a painting of Stalin
10. Tilt down of photos of Stalin
11. Mid of visitors
12. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Lidiya Kozlova, Director of the museum:
Each of us wants our state to be strong. And I always ask the following question: Can a strong state be ruled by a week president, a week head of the state? It can't be that way. So that the government became strong, the head of state has also to be smart, strong and sometimes even tough. Because today the current situation demands that. And in the time when Joseph Stalin ruled the country, the situation demanded this 100 times more.
13. Wide of tour
14. Mid of two posters, with titles reading (Russian) (left) Tehran and (right) First Fireworks
15. Close of poster
16. Mid of visitors
17. Various of exhibit
18. Wide of another tour outside the museum
19. Close of a bust of Stalin in front of the museum
20. Mid of tour group
21. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Sergei Zubarovsky, tour guide:
We had the gulag. We had other mistakes. People were punished. But our soldiers went into the attack. They were rising for the motherland, for Stalin. And that happened in this region. He is a kind of a flag which lead us to the victory. And he may have had mistakes, but we know them, and our pupils know about these mistakes. We tell them about them, we are not hiding them. And we also say about the glory he brought to us.
22. Wide of a street scene
23. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Vasilisa Lishinskaya, 21-year-old mother of two children:
Whatever the person was, anyway somewhere deep in the soul he is good. And if the commander is good, then he will lead out his troops to the right path.
24. Mid of people crossing the road
25. Various of the city
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26. Wide of military vehicles in Red Square
27. Various of Stalin
28. Wide of soldiers in Red Square
29. Mid of military vehicles on parade
30. Close of Stalin
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As the 137th anniversary of the birth of Josef Stalin is marked on Friday, the retelling of the former Soviet leader's triumphs have become increasingly fashionable during troubled times in Russia.
A bust of Stalin stands outside a house-turned-museum in the village of Khoroshevo, in the Tver region, where he is said to have stayed the night on his only visit to the front during World War Two.
Groups of students look around the two-room building where Stalin strategised with his generals in August 1943 as the Red Army battled to drive out the Nazi troops.
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Колыма - родина нашего страха / Kolyma - Birthplace of Our Fear
Не знаю, как у вас, но всю свою жизнь я слышу от родителей: ну будь осторожен, ну не привлекай к себе лишнее внимание, не высовывайся – это очень опасно; и вообще мы простые люди – от нас ничего не зависит.
Мои родители – прекрасные люди, я безумно их люблю. Но они говорят все это десятилетиями - даже в тех ситуациях, где очевидно нарушается здравый смысл, где творится несправедливость и где мы точно правы.
Я всегда думал: откуда у старшего поколения этот страх, это стремление мазать все серой краской? Почему они боятся, что даже за минимальную смелость обязательно прилетит наказание? Моя гипотеза: этот страх зародился еще в прошлом веке и через поколения добрался до нас. Одно из мест, где этот страх появлялся, - Колыма.
Для максимального погружения мы проехали всю трассу Колыма. 2000 км тяжеленной дороги. 9 дней пути. И лютый, просто неправдоподобный мороз.
Как люди жили здесь тогда, во время репрессий? Как люди жили после? Как живут люди сейчас?
Все это нам было интересно и важно узнать нам. Все, что узнали, мы рассказываем вам.
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За одежду спасибо ребятам из компании Если бы не они, совсем не факт, что мы бы пережили эти морозы.
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