Policemen..
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — The Third Man
nedeljkodjukic88 — 10 years ago(July 24, 2015 01:59 PM)
Excellent film noir, wonderful score, brilliant acting, intriguing plot and all that suitable with the mood and atmosphere of the scenery.
Small spoiler ahead: The only thing I didn't like is that scene where "Internazionale Polizei" are taking away Anne Smith. All of them (French, American and British) are pretty polite and kind to Miss Smith except the Russian - he is portrayed as quite cold and official police officer. -
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nedeljkodjukic88 — 10 years ago(February 04, 2016 06:07 AM)
You don't trust them and there's no reason to trust anyone you haven't met, but also don't trust all the things you hear or read in media or from any politician. Their job is to lye and create propaganda. I'm not from US, I'm from Serbia, but I know what kind of things were said about my country and people in West, especially in the 90's, just to win over the public and justify ruthless bombing (mostly with civilians as victims). The same with Iraq, Afghanistan, 'Arabian spring', It's not a matter of liberating poor people and delivering them democracy they never asked for, but simply conquering another territory. Big and strong must spread. It's the same with Russia.
But their people is much warmer and likable then most of those in Western Europe. Though Russians do tend to solve most of their 'problems' by poisoning them It's all through their history. Not that other nations don't do that, they just use other methods. But crimes of so-called civilized nations are forgotten faster than some others. -
MoviemanCin — 10 years ago(February 04, 2016 02:27 PM)
You've got it bass-ackwards, nedel. The U.S. did NOT conquer or annex any territory from any of those conflicts. The U.S. has liberated more people than any other country ever. We make mistakes, but our intentions are usually good.
The Russians, on the other hand have been trying to acquire more territory for centuries. And they're still at it in the Ukraine. Check the headlines. That's why I don't trust them. And being a neighbor of theirs if you have any brains you won't trust them either.
And I HAVE met them. I toured the USSR back in the late 70s, and I've traveled extensively in Europe more recently. The Russians are consistently rude, loud, unfriendly and pushy. They're also ranked #1 in a Yahoo poll for worst tourists. On the other hand I've found most Europeans to be friendly, helpful and easy to get along with.
Learn your history, nedel or be doomed to have it repeated.
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nedeljkodjukic88 — 10 years ago(February 05, 2016 07:41 AM)
And I HAVE met them. I toured the USSR back in the late 70s, and I've traveled extensively in Europe more recently. The Russians are consistently rude, loud, unfriendly and pushy. They're also ranked #1 in a Yahoo poll for worst tourists. On the other hand I've found most Europeans to be friendly, helpful and easy to get along with.
Yahoo poll results say so, most of the others (Business insider, Huffington post,) put Americans and British on first place. But none of those are very reliable. And there are all kinds of people everywhere, especially in such big countries, population-wise, like USA and Russia. Also, one culture is simply more suited to some other, while it just doesn't get along with some third culture. Mediterranean people will get along better with similar mentalities rather than those from Scandinavia for instance (or Southern and Northern Italy - completely different). Serbs get along better with those nations which are energetic and open, than those who are reserved and hold on to their emotions.
Learn your history, nedel or be doomed to have it repeated.
I know my, and other's history, very well. My country was first independent in twelfth century and has been in many wars ever since, like Romans and all others before, because it's strategic position and land rich with mines. But never in war with Russia. They were the allies, though, many times (especially against the Ottoman Turks), because we're both of orthodox religion, but certainly, from their own interest as well. We had friendly relations with Americans as well, notably in two World wars (in the Great war this small country had by far more victims than any other, including 'big players'), and through people like Nikola Tesla, Mihajlo Pupin, Karl Malden, John Ford, Peter Bogdanovich And many of US soldiers saved by Serbian peasants in those wars were witnesses to crimes many other nations (Austrian, Hungarian, German, Bulgarian, Croats) committed on domestic population. Cause that's the best way to get to know a man, or entire nation - when you share their unfortunate destiny. So, the stories of Dr. Archibald Reiss and Dr. Arius von Tienhoven who were on the scene, saving lives, told the opposite from the propaganda media was creating.
The U.S. did NOT conquer or annex any territory from any of those conflicts. The U.S. has liberated more people than any other country ever. We make mistakes, but our intentions are usually good.
The Russians, on the other hand have been trying to acquire more territory for centuries. And they're still at it in the Ukraine. Check the headlines. That's why I don't trust them.
Maybe the people' intentions are good, but then that's just being naive as a child. If one reads the headlines, it's not enough to know everything about what's happening on the other side of the planet. That's shallow thinking for a grown-up. Especially if that's one of those medias which are corrupted or owned by people who have their own interest in starting and defending war campaigns. And which are used simply to manipulate and brainwash their own people to get their support and later send some of them to fight their war. Vote, buy and obey - don't use your own head.
You don't have to annex a territory to have it conquered. Decades after 'liberation', those countries are still in chaos, land flooded with weapons and ready to be plunged in civil war at any moment considered to be convenient. What is liberating in your economy becoming completely dependent on U.S. banks, your country becoming their military base, and your 'leaders' their puppets?! It's the case with entire Latin America, Africa and big parts of Europe and Asia. My country too, unfortunately. Nowadays in 'liberated' Kosovo all the big companies are property of 'Madam' Madeleine Albright, Richard Holbrooke and similar war supporters, while all the minerals and ores go to ships and planes to U.S., straight from the mines. All they left is uranium ore, left from the bombs used to kill civilians and refugees. And what ever happened to Iraqi nuclear program that puts the entire world in jeopardy? Even if they did have some, what's the big deal - so does the U.S.A., Russia, China and all the strong countries. But they're just using it to prevent wars, I forgot.
Russians are in Ukraine, but I think there's also a lot of U.S. (NATO) soldiers as well. All the time they were there, it wasn't called 'occupation', that term was used when Russia decided U.S. forces are too close to their borders. The same is with war in Syria. It would've ended fast as that one in Lybia or Tunisia and Egypt, hadn't Russia and China involved, because that's the last one that got access to Mediterranean Sea and is not under control of US (NATO).
Russia is not our neighbor, there's a couple of states in between. But, as you see, we've got much worse experience with some other countries.