On November 7th, a new multilingual documentary film was released by Red Creators Network, commemorating the 109th anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution. The documentary (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNWpp1JHsNA) provides an overview of the emergence of the Soviet Union, the world’s first socialist state, with a particular focus on Lenin, one of the key architects of the revolution.
From the synopsis:
“The documentary, produced by RCN, broadly tells the story of how the Soviet Union – the first socialist state in history – came to be, placing Lenin, one of the key architects of this revolution, at the center of the narrative. Through events that Lenin witnessed from childhood, which he analyzed and actively participated in, viewers embark on a journey to a small fishing town in 19th-century Russia and to various cities in Europe, where Russian émigrés and exiles continued the political struggle under difficult conditions. They also find themselves on the streets of St. Petersburg and Moscow, where the flames of revolution ignited; in the halls of congresses, where the most fierce debates and divisions took place; in the trenches of World War I, filled with blood, hunger, and rage; in the Winter Palace, which the Tsar and later the bourgeois government were forced to leave; in the ranks of the Red Army, which crushed the counter-revolutionary White Army; in the Kremlin, and finally, in the village of Gorky, where Lenin’s life came to an end.”
Director: Mustafa Kenan Aybastı
Screenwriter: Onur Doğan
“placing Lenin, one of the key architects of this revolution, at the center of the narrative”
Something tells me this might not be what he would have wanted.
Maybe, Lenin would have wanted a more diverse set of perspectives rather than only his. However, I speculate that people around him(ex Stalin) would have definitely liked this documentary as a tribute.
I found a YouTube link in your post. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
