Obviously it is a major battle, but what it really is is the only thing the script writers know or expect the audience to have heard of. There's yet to be a major Hollywood film on the 900+ day siege of Leningrad, or Kursk, or Operation Bagration or.. yet all of these were far bigger and more significant than anything the Americans or British were involved with.
In relation to Elizabeth's back story, it means that her father must have been in the Red Army prior to 1941, because she's supposed to be from Smolensk, and that was overrun within a couple of months, and if that's the case what was he doing for the first eighteen months of the Great Patriotic War? Most of the pre-1941 Red Army was killed or captured in that time. It would have been much better to say he was captured in say the Vyazma pocket.. ooh, and then you could have him collaborating in order to survive and ending up being shot by the NKVD.
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Date: 2013-08-28 09:04 am (UTC)In relation to Elizabeth's back story, it means that her father must have been in the Red Army prior to 1941, because she's supposed to be from Smolensk, and that was overrun within a couple of months, and if that's the case what was he doing for the first eighteen months of the Great Patriotic War? Most of the pre-1941 Red Army was killed or captured in that time. It would have been much better to say he was captured in say the Vyazma pocket.. ooh, and then you could have him collaborating in order to survive and ending up being shot by the NKVD.