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Between Hitler and Stalin
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Directed by	Slavko Nowytski
Written by	Kristi Wheeler
Story by	Wsevolod W. Isajiw
Produced by	Slavko Nowytski
Narrated by	Jack Palance
Distributed by	Ukrainian Canadian Research and Documentation Centre
Release date	2003 (2003) (Canada)
Running time	60 minutes
Countries	Canada Ukraine
Languages	English Ukrainian

Between Hitler and Stalin: Ukraine in World War II is a 2003 film produced and directed by Slavko Nowytski and narrated by Jack Palance. The one-hour documentary, part black-and-white and part color, is a project of the Ukrainian Canadian Research and Documentation Centre — an attempt to tell the story of World War II from a Ukrainian perspective.

Plot

In a chronological manner, Nowytski's film unfolds during the years of Soviet–Nazi collaboration recounting the losses and Ukrainian people suffering; the documentary shifts to the destruction wrought by Joseph Stalin's scorched earth policy as the Soviet Union's Red Army retreated, and shows the ruins left behind by the German and then the Soviet offensives.

Comments

Between Hitler and Stalin describes the activity of the underground resistance movements, and specifically the long and large-scale struggle of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) on two fronts, against both totalitarian powers, for Ukraine's independence. As Oksana Zakydalsky writes for The Ukrainian Weekly: "although often called the Russo-German war or described as Russia at war, only parts of Russia were occupied, while all Ukrainian territories were invaded and laid waste by both the Nazi and Soviet war machines. … The film documents Ukraine's contribution to the war against totalitarianism and the price Ukraine paid for its independence."

Research

For historical and political commentary, the film relies on Norman Davies, a historian from University of London; Robert Conquest, a Soviet scholar at Hoover Institute; John Armstrong, an insurgency expert, and Zbigniew Brzezinski, a former US National Security Adviser.

References

^ Zakydalsky, Oksana. Documentary "Between Hitler and Stalin" offers untold story of Ukraine Archived September 30, 2007, at the Wayback Machine. The Ukrainian Weekly. 9 November 2003, No. 45, Vol. LXXI.

External links

Between Hitler and Stalin at IMDb

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European hearings, resolutions and declarations	Council of Europe resolution 1481 (2006) European Public Hearing on Crimes Committed by Totalitarian Regimes (2008) Prague Declaration on European Conscience and Communism (2008) European Parliament declaration of 23 August 2008 European Public Hearing on European Conscience and Crimes of Totalitarian Communism: 20 Years After (2009) European Parliament resolution of 2 April 2009 Vilnius Declaration of the OSCE (2009) Declaration on Crimes of Communism (2010) Stockholm Programme of the EU (2010–2015) Warsaw Declaration of the EU (2011) European Parliament resolution on the importance of European remembrance for the future of Europe (2019)
Legislation	Bans on communist symbols Communist crimes Act on Illegality of the Communist Regime and on Resistance Against It Decommunization in Russia Decommunization in Ukraine Lustration in Poland
Institutions	Black Ribbon Day Office for the Documentation and the Investigation of the Crimes of Communism Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes Institute of National Remembrance Institute for Information on the Crimes of Communism House of Terror Museum Federal Commissioner for the Stasi Records Berlin-Hohenschönhausen Memorial Reconciliation of European Histories Group Estonian International Commission for Investigation of Crimes Against Humanity Genocide and Resistance Research Centre of Lithuania International Commission for the Evaluation of the Crimes of the Nazi and Soviet Occupation Regimes in Lithuania Institute for the Investigation of Communist Crimes in Romania Hannah Arendt Institute for Totalitarianism Studies
Media	The Black Book of Communism (1997) Between Hitler and Stalin (2004) The Soviet Story (2008) Bloodlands (2010)
Opposition	Presidential Commission of the Russian Federation to Counter Attempts to Falsify History to the Detriment of Russia's Interests

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