I picked up a booklet dedicated to Algimantas Masiulis (Uncle Willie). This photo portrait... how beautiful it is! I like to periodically check out flea market websites: new lots appear from time to time.

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I picked up a booklet dedicated to Algimantas Masiulis (Uncle Willie). This photo portrait... how beautiful it is! I like to periodically check out flea market websites: new lots appear from time to time.
The dualistic theme is magor in more art objects. Yin and Yang, dark and lite, death and life, the relationship between blond and bruneth characters… I love this...
I will not stop making collages based on the Shield and Sword...
As traditional - translate:
On top >> Не теряйте бдительность - Don't let your guard down
Down (on left) >> Многие наци считали его безупречным во всех отношениях - Many Nazis considered him impeccable in all respects
Down (at center) >> железнодорожный вокзал- railway station
Down (on right) >> Как не сойти с ума в водовороте хаоса? - How can not go crazy in the maelstrom of chaos?
My "Drunken Star," Heinrich. (And did you know that Oleg Ivanovich played drunk characters simply magnificently? He was good. Very good!)
Just because Johann is gorgeous. Great thank you, Stanislav Andreevich for Weiss.
(Also I have one with Heinrich-Oleg Ivanovich)
A some Soviet esthetic from Taming the fire with Аквапланирование by Наследие большевиков
More and more scrinshots from Taming the fire!
I can't help but think that Bashkirtsev and his deputy Ognev are scientific husbands… In this regard, the name of the film is also speaking - Fire - Огонь [ogon'] in Russian. The last name of his friend and deputy is Ognev - Fiery… So Bashkirtsev, with his idea of a fix about space, is fighting Ognev's sanity? And what did Bashkirtsev call sputnik? OUR FIRSTBORN. NOT OUR SCIENTIFIC BRAINCHILD, BUT THE FIRSTBORN! I'M SCREECHING
And this. What this, heh?! They are just friends. In the Soveit movie...
Happy holidays! Today we celebrate Day of cosmonautics and Easter.
And today I want to present you the Soviet movie about space program - Taming the fire (Укрощение огня). At the plot center – the Sergey Korolyov’s bio. He was one of Soviet space pioneer whom ruled to launching the first man into low-Earth orbit. But in the movie the protagonist had another name – Andrei Bashkirtsev. That connect because engineer’s names was classified, however the big part of Bashkirtsev’s bio (he was the impersonation all engineers-constructor) based on Korolyov life.
I catches the information about film making process and to make this movie was so difficult. Yuri Gagarin not so long ago was the First man in the space and heads of departments was dissatisfied that secret and almost actually information to opened for demonstrate. They required to remake scenario and to cut some moments.
What’s could be interesting for you – in Taming the fire to open spoken about Atlas - space program from USA (didn’t know was this info in USSR’s newspapers or this information which must to cut too). Also, in plot mentioned the story about American Air Force pilot Francis Gary Powers, whom prisoned from espionage in USSSR air territory (yep, say ‘Hello’ to Bridge of Spies from 2015).
BUT. WHAT SO INTERESTING. Later, Powers was swapped with unmasked Soviet spy Rudolf Abel. AND ABEL WAS ONE OF JOHANN WEISS/SASHA BELOV PROTOTYPE TO THE SHIELD AND SWORD’S AUTHOR VADIM KOJEVNIKOV. Just multiverse, hah.
Let’s turn to Taming the fire. Bashkirtsev so passionate about the idea of airplane and later rocket science that he throws all his strength into it, leaving his beloved Natasha. At first he runs away from her to study in Moscow, then to Magnitogorsk for construction, but he brings her and stops paying attention. Natasha leaves.
Along the way, he is interested in astrophysics and gets acquainted with the founder of cosmonautics Konstantin Tsiolkovsky (which is a real fact from Korolev's bio).
But the war begins and Bashkirtsev is engaged in designing ballistic missiles as opposed to the V-2 and the Katyusha rocket launcher. After the war, work begins on launching humans into space.
Bashkirtsev is shown to be a man of science, a genius who does not have time for family, love, although he returns to Natasha from time to time. She even gives birth to a son, Alyosha.
The film is very beautifully, the music is good. In addition, it has been restored and can now be viewed in good quality – it looks no worse than modern films showing this historical period, like Hidden Figures (2016). I'd like to watch this movie in a movie theater.
An another and old collages from The Shield and Sword with stickers from @rmilomilo and magazine clipping. It was a my life period which dedicated to scrapbooking. So more and more collages by TSAS...
Traditionnaly, lets translete to English from Russian
left upper side - ДИТЯ РЕВОЛЮЦИИ - The revolution's kid
left low side - ВЗГЛЯД В БУДУЩЕЕ - The view to future
right side - БУДЬТЕ КАК ДОМА, НО НЕ ЗАБЫВАЙТЕ, ЧТО ВЫ В ГОСТЯХ - Feel at home, but don't forget that you're a guest
This week for me so similar with crap... Ugh... I am looking forward to receiving my new books about Oleg Yankovsky...
and maybe you want to read about one Soviet movie at nearest time?
Uncle Willi
Say to me, lieutenant, where are you from?
There are absolutely no people in my family who know The shield and the sword (well, my grandmother may have heard something, but when the film was released 2 episodes at a time in the cinema, she was 17). No wonder none of them know about the movie Мне было 19/Ich war neunzehn (I was 19) by Konrad Wolf.
In Soviet cinema so more exapmles for Soviet citizens in enemy territory as spy, prisoner, victim for demonstration of their brave and opposition to the forces of the Reich, but... what about Germans, whom does not agree with Nazi ideology? Germans in USSSR like comrades, soldiers from Red Army?
Ich war neunzehn - the rare representative this ganre.
The biographycally story from Konrad's live.
The protagonist - 19-year old Grisha (Gregor) Hecker (Jaecki Schwarz). He is Red Army's propagandist, who is trying to convey to the soldiers of the Reich that the war is about to end in a loss for them. And he don't know who is he. German? But he not Nazi. Soviet? Possibly.
The scene at the beginning of the film, when Grisha is appointed mayor of the Bernau city, is eloquent:
"Say to me, lieutenant, where are you from?"
"From Moscow, comrade General.''
''No, where you was born?''
''In Köln, comrade General.''
This movie apart from war, it's about feeling yourself, trying to identify yourself. Grisha identifies himself as German, but not a Nazi. For the Germans, he is a stranger, for the Soviets, in fact, too.
Throughout the film, I was haunted by the feeling of Grisha's loss, as when you grew up in an international family, but the face and self-image do not match. It's like everyone's constantly trying to put you in a skin that's too tight for you.
Only, perhaps, for his friends - Vadim and Sasha, Grisha was Grisha without labels.
More and more Elsa Wulf from The Shield and the Sword.
According book description she made red hair color...
The real Elsa's name is unknown - only her lastmane. Sasha know her real lastname from chief - tovarisch Baryishev and Elsa has lastname Orlova.
In my AU, her real name could have been a real Soviet name, made up of the names of leaders of the communist movement in the Soviet Union, or new terms.
I like think about that was... Vilora (Вилора) - from first literas of slogan «Владимир Ильич Ленин — Организатор Революции» (Vladimir Ilyich Lenin— The Organizer of the Revolution). Or Vladlena (Владлена) from Vladimir Lenin.
So.
Vilora Orlova or Vladlena Orlova.
I think 'dis song so suitable for Sasha…
An old video from 2024
Let's talk about Alexey Zubov a.k.a. Alois Hagen.
According to the series, he is a spy, a comrade of Weiss-Belov, BUT. It wasn't always like this.
Alexey's first appearance in the original source took place in the hospital, where Sasha ended up after being injured. And Sasha immediately hated Alexei, whom he knew as Alois Hagen.
A narcissistic handsome man, the ideal of you-know-what… He points out his superiority to everyone and considers only Weiss his equal. And he helps him by suggesting that the Wehrmacht's system of physical exercises DIFFERS from the Soviet one. And so Sasha understands that Hagen is his countryman.
Basov's series does not mention that Alexey is a border guard (in adaptation some plotlines was cut). And he was. And moreover, he was one of the candidates for intelligence officers, like Sasha, he underwent basic training, which he needed when the Soviet Union was attacked. According to historical reports, it was the border guards who first met the Nazis.
And Alexey hated the Nazis, but not the Germans. In the end, he fell in love with his wife, Brigitte Weitling, and felt her death very hard. He even wanted to change her last name from Weitling to Zubova on her gravestone after the war.
Georgy Martynyuk was the brilliant in The Shield and the Sword. Although I imagined Zubov-Hagen differently (if only because the bookish Zubov did not have a mustache, heh-heh).
Just Alois Hagen a.k.a. Alexei Zubov
I want to show my collages inspired by The shield and the sword...
Like this
upd: translation of phrases
left side:
СМОГУ ЛИ Я? - If I can do it?
ВЕРНЫЕ - the faithful
ВСЕМ НАСКВОЗЬ ВИДНО - It's obvious to everyone
right side
МНЕ И ДЕЛА НЕ БЫЛО - I didn't even care
СДЕЛАТЬ ВЫБОР - Make a choice
'cause this is so funny