On September 17, the premiere of the Belarusian film “On the Other Shore” by Andrei Hruliev took place in Minsk. The action is set in 1925 and takes place – the filming also took place there – on the pre-war Polish-Soviet border, where the local Belarusian population is said to have suffered under “Polish rule”. Reviews and trailers reveal it to be a story about Belarusian activists struggling to divide the nation into Soviet and Polish parts, with the latter being even worse. The scenes show Polish officers in uniform, probably depicted as the Border Protection Corps.
The historical advisor was Sergei Tretiak of the Belarusian Academy of Sciences, who claims that the plot itself is fictional, but the historical reality is faithfully reproduced. In the fragments published on the Internet, you can see the motif of political activism, attacks, terrorism – everything points to the fact that the story celebrates communists from the USSR, although the religious thread is shown positively – an Orthodox priest shows the protagonist the way to the meaning of life. The film also contains shooting, fighting, love, intrigue – the production is intended to justify the new national holiday introduced by Lukashsenko two years ago: National Unity Day. It is no coincidence that this is the day of September 17 and the attack of the USSR on Poland, after which the Belarusian Soviet Republic was expanded to include part of the eastern lands of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
So after Putin made November 6 his holiday and made his anti-Polish film ‘1612’, the smaller dictator made his own little analogy here.
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Interestingly, Lukashenko himself did not like the film very much. Speaking at a meeting with teachers in Minsk about the need to increase the role of schools in education, he mentioned the production of “On the Other Shore”. “It’s not a perfect film, but it exists,” he said in the context of other productions, especially Western ones, where there is only sensation and violence.
The premiere moment for Mińsk is related to the anniversary and can be played for us together with Agnieszka Holland’s film. At that time we defeated poor Belarusians, today we defeated poor Arabs, and in the meantime – after all, we also defeated the same areas – as professors write with the letter G – Jews. Yet the falsification of reality is not equivalent in both films. The essence of effective disinformation is to convey content not directly from the source of the lie, but through an intermediary, someone who is credible but will still formulate Moscow’s message.
This was adequately illustrated by General Ion Pacepa in his book on ‘Disinformation’:
Disinformation is something completely different from classic misleading. Let’s assume that Moscow fabricates documents proving that the US military was ordered to target Islamic mosques during the 2011 airstrikes in Libya. If a report about these documents were published in the official Russian media, it would be misleading, and people in the West would take it with a grain of salt and regard it as a typical example of Moscow propaganda. However, if the same report were published in the Western media and attributed to a Western organization, we would be dealing with disinformation and the credibility of the material would be much greater.
In the West, no one takes Lukashenko’s film seriously. The Russian-language opposition media are also not very interested. However, the Dutch film has already received rave reviews on the website “Meduza”, an independent news portal with an editorial office in Riga. But Lukashenko’s propaganda also took note. The Belarusian Telegraphic Agency even described how Minister Zbigniew Ziobro attacked the director. The authors of belta.by also allow themselves to make unrefined comments about Poles guarding the border:
Hitler also cared about the purity of the race
– we read on the social networking site Telegram on the official channel of the Belarusian Telegraphic Agency.
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Source: wPolityce