Golgotha of Bessarabia (Ion Chistruga, Alina Ciutac, 2010)
#CoMoMoldova
a film essay with a suggestive voiceover (& explicit imagery) that raises a valid critique of Soviet/Stalinist imperialism (& points out related atrocities),
while also slipping into the pathetic claro-fascist tirades,
or a delirious rambling about the non-arbitrary nature of language (thus contradicting the findings of Ferdinand de Saussure).
Language is a unique gift,
unequal, given from the spheres
and used painstakingly and with dedication by its users.
Hundreds of years,
despite the efforts to alienate the ancestral dialect or mutilate it,
the people did not lose its effigy of sound
given to them once and for good.
film's main topic is the bitter history of the contested area of Bessarabia, the Northern Bukovina, & the Hertsa region
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_oc ... n_Bukovina
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_de ... n_Bukovina
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hertsa_region
On 23 August 1939, the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany signed the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact,
a non-aggression treaty that contained an additional secret protocol with maps in which a demarcation line through Eastern Europe was drawn and divided it into the German and Soviet interest zones. Bessarabia was among the regions assigned to the Soviet sphere of interest by the Pact. Article III of its Secret Additional Protocol stated:
With regard to Southeastern Europe attention is called by the Soviet side to its interest in Bessarabia. The German side declares its complete political disinterestedness in these areas.
Assured by the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact of Soviet non-interference, Germany started World War II one week later by invading Poland from the west on 1 September 1939. The Soviet Union attacked Poland from the east on 17 September, and by 6 October, Poland had fallen. Romanian Prime Minister Armand Călinescu, a strong supporter of Poland in its conflict with Germany, was assassinated on 21 September by elements of the far-right Iron Guard with Nazi support.
On 2 June 1940, Germany informed the Romanian government that to receive territorial guarantees, Romania should consider negotiations with the Soviet Union.
On 22 June, France, a guarantor of Romanian borders, fell to Nazi advances. This is considered to be an important factor in the Soviets' decision to issue the ultimatum.
On 26 June 1940, at 22:00, Soviet People's Commissar Vyacheslav Molotov presented an ultimatum note to Gheorghe Davidescu, the Romanian plenipotentiary minister to Moscow, in which the Soviet Union demanded the evacuation of the Romanian military and civil administration from Bessarabia and the northern part of Bukovina.
On 27 June, Molotov declared that if the Romanians rejected Soviet demands, the Soviet troops would cross the border. Molotov gave the Romanian government 24 hours to respond to the ultimatum.
On the morning of 28 June 1940, following advice by both Germany and Italy, the Romanian government, led by Gheorghe Tătărescu, under the semi-authoritarian rule of Carol II, agreed to submit to the Soviet demands. Soviet forces also occupied the Hertsa region, part of the Romanian Old Kingdom, which was in neither Bessarabia nor Bukovina.
film's minor topics are historical greats, namely Stephen the Great (1433/1440-1504) or Vasile Lupu (1595-1661),
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_the_Great
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasile_Lupu
or famine of 1946-47 (the third and final of the major Soviet famines),
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_fa ... %80%931947
or outburst of the anti-Soviet resistance between 1969 and 1971,
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_ ... _(Moldova)
or many other things.
as obvious (from the usual myriad of links), watching this film was a very time-consuming event (i made plenty of detours).
the most adventurous getting astray was triggered by the following frame with comrade Stalin...
... because it made me investigate the identity of the Baal entity
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bael_(demon)
He is described as a hoarsely-voiced king with the power to make men invisible and ruling over sixty-six legions of demons. The
Lesser Key of Solomon describes him as appearing in the form of a cat, toad, human, some combination thereof, or other "diverse shapes", while the
Pseudomonarchia Daemonum and the
Dictionnaire Infernal state that he appears with the heads of a cat, toad, and human simultaneously.
so, basically, i started watching
Golgotha of Bessarabia and ended up peeking into
Dictionnaire Infernal,
btw. you can find the "Baal/Baël" entry on the page 71
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https://archive.org/details/dictionnair ... 0/mode/2up