Revealing Ukraine

Just minute 17:20 Putin recognize his frustration and intentions. After that there is an interview of Oliver Stone that seems to be sleepy and far away from the answers of Viktor Mevdevchuck, Putin's personal friend as Vlad is the godfather of his daughter. Not much more to add. The only good thing of the film s a good way to understand the conspiranoic nightmare Putin is living and his lack of humanity or democratic values. Apart from that the dramatic music is all time on and the cinematography is very poor (starting from the "poetic" naked female of the beginning of the film). It is sad to see Oliver Stone as a puppet of Mr. Putin strategy of building the business case of the invasion.

If you want to see an excellent example of Russian disinformation, this is the show to watch. Putin doesn't think UKRAINE was ever a country? Then what was 1918 when Ukraine was recognized by two dozen countries had diplomatic relations, passports, currency, international sovereign debt and was a democracy? And, what about the year 988 when Ukraine became Christian. Moscow didn't even exist. It was a fur trading post. The coins issued by Volodymyr the Great show the Ukrainian Trident on the reverse (tails side). If Kyiv was Russian and Prince Volodymyr was Russian-- why doesn't Russia use the Trident as it's symbol anywhere? Instead it is the National Emblem of Ukraine and nowhere to be found in Russia. In fact, Russian Czars and the Communists persecuted Ukrainians for wearing or showing the Trident. Don't believe me research it. And, BTW, Mr. Stone knows as much about the history of Ukraine as he does about the assainstion of John F. Kennedy.

An unwatchable pro-kremlin fantasy piece. Here's the recipe for this dogpile: mix equal parts alternate reality and incredulity.

Filter through a Qanon conspiracy documentary produced by Russia Today. Add a little Anti-LGBTQ for flavor, bring to a boil.

Then server to anyone that has unironically used the terms NObama, Killar, or Trump 2024.

Let's talk with facts. The movie from Oliver Stone is completely one sided. We have no presentation of both positions in the conflict and no neutral commentary on them. We get only the pro-Russian views. It is unprofessional and manipulative to show only the one view and one opinion in a conflict. Thus the movie does not cover any journalistic standards for quality and it is ridiculous to rate it with ratings like 8, 9, or 10 stars. The movie deals with two topics - was the Maidan revolution bottom-up or top-down organised. And the American interference in Ukrainian politics. On both topics I could agree with the positions shown in the movie. This does not however change two important topics that are conveniently not covered in the movie. 1. No matter if the Maidan was bottom-up or top-down organised, the former president Yanukovich was an extremely corrupt politician and he deserved to be impeached and trialed. His house is now a museum where one can go and see for himself the luxury he was living in despite the low per capita GDP of Ukraine. 2. Much more important however is the topic of the war. And this topic is much more important than who shot 100 people at the Maidan and the American elections. The absolute fact is the following: Without Russian military interference in Donbas, the war would have ended in 2014. Ukraine is a huge country with 40 Million population, with a large army, large military spendings, and military industrial complex with own tank production. It is actually in top 10 in the world in weapons production. The separatist region is approximately 5% of the Ukrainian territory. It is ridiculous to even consider that Ukraine can't enforce their control over the territory of Donbas if they were fighting separatists with limited supplies. The war lasts for years because they fight against Russian supplies. So Mr. Putin is the one that could stop the war. But he doesn't because the war is directly in the interests of Russia. Why? Reason 1: Because Donbas can be used as a bargaining chip for the recognition of the Crimean annexation. Ukraine recognises that Crimea is now part of Russia and Russia returns Donbas. Simple as that. Reason 2: Russia invests a lot in spreading the idea that Ukraine has no economic future without Russia and that the fall of the Soviet Union and the orientation towards the west bring only economic misery to Ukraine. The message is - with the EU and the US you are going to be poor, come back to your Russian brothers. What better way to keep a country poor than maintaining a military conflict to suck the taxpayers money and to scare away potential EU investors.

These are the facts, Gentleman. I agree with the opinions in the movie regarding the Maidan events, but they are not the major issue. And with this one sided representation, Mr. Stone contributed too little to the pursuit of justice and truth.

You can look up my review history, and I think I have only given a 1/10 one time before for The Passion of Christ by Mel Gibson (I love Mel's movies).

The 1/10 rating for me is for films that are gross misinformation in the face of obvious historical and factual information.

I think the other reviewers have pointed out some of the terrible gross misrepresentation of facts, like referring to the Revolution of Dignity of 2014 as coup-d'etat, over and over again. Or the wild lies about the history of Ukraine by Putin and some Ukrainian oligarch, which are never challenged in the documentary.

I would also add that the Right Sector, isn't a neo-Nazi organization, which lead Ukrainians into the front line to get shot by neo-Nazi snipers, this was presented as a hypothesis, with zero evidence!

Then for some wild reason the second half of this documentary, went off on some wild tangent about the Ukrainian interference in US elections of 2016...in order to support Clinton. Which is just wild, because the Trump's campaign manager Manafort, was fired by Trump because of his ties to Russia! Of course as a side not after Manafort was already sitting in a fed prison, Tump then pardons him after rolling Manafort under the bus.

I can keep going about the falsely presented percentages, in charts, or suggesting that George Soros, was the main orchestrator behind the Revolution of Dignity, because Soros established a fund to help Ukrainians...23 years ago. And no mention about what the mass protest was actually about! And on and on and on...

Sorry, can't stop, at the end of the documentary Ukraine is presented as the aggressor agains Russia! And blames the Revolution of Dignity for the further destruction of the Ukraine's economy, without mentioning the Russian invasion of the Danbas region and along the Ukrainian borders right after the change of government!!!

This entire documentary is pro-Putin propaganda.

Lastly, I want to mention this documentary's biggest sin, is this film is exceptionally boring. It's basically two talking heads who have committed unspeakable crimes against the Ukrainian people, and some ideologue "journalist." That's all we get...