Great movie! But, there's one thing - on Admiral Kolchak's train there's both Russian and US flags. Although Americans were officially allied with White Guard, their 7,000 troops stationed in Siberia never got involved in fights against the Red Army; they've chosen to stay aside as neutral, which is sort of a betrayal. So, their flags shown in this movie seem inappropriate (unless they actually were placed on the train, if it's a fact)...
@Dogmeat1950 Well,maybe just so they could say - "we tried".It's close to nothing,few "sparks",that's all.Russia supported the North during American civil war,which stopped Brits and French to enter the war on side of the South.It practically decided the outcome.Americans owed Russia much larger support,than that of the Polar Bear expedition.They even indirectly helped Japan,modernizing their industry and army,together with other colonial powers,resulting with Russo-Japanese war of 1904.
@Dogmeat1950 WWI??? American public didn't experience that war (WII,neither) like the rest of the world, Eastern Europe especially. It's a poor reasoning. But, I can understand it. Nobody wanted to sacrifice their own people in war that's raging far across the oceans... USA entered both wars after years of "second thoughts", waiting for proper pretext, so that public could be persuaded into supporting the war.
@Dogmeat1950 Dutch isn't really a language, it's more like a German dialect. You have few times more "Dutch" speakers in Germany, than in the Netherlands itself. Dutch is part of West Upper German dialect family.
@Dogmeat1950 Official Language is a political term, not linguistic.According to this,any dialect could be declared as Official Language, if there's a local government to declare it.This happened to Serbian language,after break-up of Yugoslavia. Now every break-away republic has "its own language" named after themselves. Imagine that suddenly, Americans start speaking American, Canadians Canadian and Australians Australian language, as opposed to English. Ridiculous! But,that's how politics work.
Great movie! But, there's one thing - on Admiral Kolchak's train there's both Russian and US flags. Although Americans were officially allied with White Guard, their 7,000 troops stationed in Siberia never got involved in fights against the Red Army; they've chosen to stay aside as neutral, which is sort of a betrayal. So, their flags shown in this movie seem inappropriate (unless they actually were placed on the train, if it's a fact)...
DjuricaBozanovic 9 months ago
@DjuricaBozanovic not true. the Polar Bear Expedition did get into the fight but it was very small scale nothing large.
Dogmeat1950 6 months ago
@Dogmeat1950 Well,maybe just so they could say - "we tried".It's close to nothing,few "sparks",that's all.Russia supported the North during American civil war,which stopped Brits and French to enter the war on side of the South.It practically decided the outcome.Americans owed Russia much larger support,than that of the Polar Bear expedition.They even indirectly helped Japan,modernizing their industry and army,together with other colonial powers,resulting with Russo-Japanese war of 1904.
DjuricaBozanovic 6 months ago
@DjuricaBozanovic Germany Support the North to so did France, the British were the only ones to support the South,
also the Russians support the USA against the British during the American Revolution,but but times was just vasts amounts of money. which is fine.
Dogmeat1950 6 months ago
@Dogmeat1950 You're right, my mistake about France, it was sort of typo, really. But, the sad fact about the Polar Bear Expedition stands.
DjuricaBozanovic 6 months ago
@DjuricaBozanovic ya the main reason why the Polar Bear Expedition was very light was because of American public having already been through WW1.
Dogmeat1950 6 months ago
@Dogmeat1950 WWI??? American public didn't experience that war (WII,neither) like the rest of the world, Eastern Europe especially. It's a poor reasoning. But, I can understand it. Nobody wanted to sacrifice their own people in war that's raging far across the oceans... USA entered both wars after years of "second thoughts", waiting for proper pretext, so that public could be persuaded into supporting the war.
DjuricaBozanovic 6 months ago
@DjuricaBozanovic this is true, the American public didn't want a war. it also didn't help that a good number of Americans where and are German.
Dogmeat1950 6 months ago
@Dogmeat1950 I know that fact. When USA was founded, it was a tight vote between English and German speakers, on which language would be official...
DjuricaBozanovic 6 months ago
@DjuricaBozanovic well kind of. it was a tight vote Between English and Dutch. not really German.
Dogmeat1950 6 months ago
@Dogmeat1950 Dutch isn't really a language, it's more like a German dialect. You have few times more "Dutch" speakers in Germany, than in the Netherlands itself. Dutch is part of West Upper German dialect family.
DjuricaBozanovic 6 months ago
@DjuricaBozanovic lol. it is a funny Language though lol.
Dogmeat1950 6 months ago
@Dogmeat1950 Official Language is a political term, not linguistic.According to this,any dialect could be declared as Official Language, if there's a local government to declare it.This happened to Serbian language,after break-up of Yugoslavia. Now every break-away republic has "its own language" named after themselves. Imagine that suddenly, Americans start speaking American, Canadians Canadian and Australians Australian language, as opposed to English. Ridiculous! But,that's how politics work.
DjuricaBozanovic 6 months ago