Little things

Angelika Bucher >> cheating on her husband with barabashka (a character in the modern folklore of the post-Soviet space, an analogue of a poltergeist)

Brigitte Weitling >> deceived and abandoned by her Egyptian husband

Andrei Basalyga a.k.a Phaza >> changes his nationality every night

Colonel von Salz >> the enemy of cunnilingus

He-he the 00's for Russian TV was time for strange, cringe, brave tv-shows... But how materials it's give for "The shield and sword" memes... Like "Sex with Anfisa Chekhova". Every character representation just brilliant and suitable for TSAS characters.

Let's go

Johann >> makes a living by masturbating

Axel Schtainglitz >> gets excited by money

Oscar von Dietrich >> holder of higher education in sexuality

Angelika Bücher >> opened virgins like champagne

Elsa Wolf >> fined for lack of condoms

Herr Lansdorf >> veteran of the sexual front

I love to invent stories in which Heinrich doesn't abandon Johann and drags him with him to Germany. Or stories in which Heinrich was recruited by Soviet intelligence before the war and is perfectly aware of who killed his father.

Although this song has a different meaning and at first I wanted to make a video with a plot where Johann rose to power without Heinrich’s help and now Heinrich is seeking Johann’s favor.

I will not stop making collages based on the Shield and Sword...

As traditional - translate:

On top >> Не теряйте бдительность - Don't let your guard down

Down (on left) >> Многие наци считали его безупречным во всех отношениях - Many Nazis considered him impeccable in all respects

Down (at center) >> железнодорожный вокзал- railway station

Just because Johann is gorgeous. Great thank you, Stanislav Andreevich for Weiss.

More and more scrinshots from Taming the fire!

I can't help but think that Bashkirtsev and his deputy Ognev are scientific husbands… In this regard, the name of the film is also speaking - Fire - Огонь [ogon'] in Russian. The last name of his friend and deputy is Ognev - Fiery… So Bashkirtsev, with his idea of a fix about space, is fighting Ognev's sanity? And what did Bashkirtsev call sputnik? OUR FIRSTBORN. NOT OUR SCIENTIFIC BRAINCHILD, BUT THE FIRSTBORN! I'M SCREECHING

And this. What this, heh?! They are just friends. In the Soveit movie...

And today I want to present you the Soviet movie about space program - Taming the fire (Укрощение огня). At the plot center – the Sergey Korolyov’s bio. He was one of Soviet space pioneer whom ruled to launching the first man into low-Earth orbit. But in the movie the protagonist had another name – Andrei Bashkirtsev. That connect because engineer’s names was classified, however the big part of Bashkirtsev’s bio (he was the impersonation all engineers-constructor) based on Korolyov life.

I catches the information about film making process and to make this movie was so difficult. Yuri Gagarin not so long ago was the First man in the space and heads of departments was dissatisfied that secret and almost actually information to opened for demonstrate. They required to remake scenario and to cut some moments.

What’s could be interesting for you – in Taming the fire to open spoken about Atlas - space program from USA (didn’t know was this info in USSR’s newspapers or this information which must to cut too). Also, in plot mentioned the story about American Air Force pilot Francis Gary Powers, whom prisoned from espionage in USSSR air territory (yep, say ‘Hello’ to Bridge of Spies from 2015).

BUT. WHAT SO INTERESTING. Later, Powers was swapped with unmasked Soviet spy Rudolf Abel. AND ABEL WAS ONE OF JOHANN WEISS/SASHA BELOV PROTOTYPE TO THE SHIELD AND SWORD’S AUTHOR VADIM KOJEVNIKOV. Just multiverse, hah.

Let’s turn to Taming the fire. Bashkirtsev so passionate about the idea of airplane and later rocket science that he throws all his strength into it, leaving his beloved Natasha. At first he runs away from her to study in Moscow, then to Magnitogorsk for construction, but he brings her and stops paying attention. Natasha leaves.

Along the way, he is interested in astrophysics and gets acquainted with the founder of cosmonautics Konstantin Tsiolkovsky (which is a real fact from Korolev's bio).

But the war begins and Bashkirtsev is engaged in designing ballistic missiles as opposed to the V-2 and the Katyusha rocket launcher. After the war, work begins on launching humans into space.

Bashkirtsev is shown to be a man of science, a genius who does not have time for family, love, although he returns to Natasha from time to time. She even gives birth to a son, Alyosha.

The film is very beautifully, the music is good. In addition, it has been restored and can now be viewed in good quality – it looks no worse than modern films showing this historical period, like Hidden Figures (2016). I'd like to watch this movie in a movie theater.

An another and old collages from The Shield and Sword with stickers from @rmilomilo and magazine clipping. It was a my life period which dedicated to scrapbooking. So more and more collages by TSAS...

Traditionnaly, lets translete to English from Russian

left upper side - ДИТЯ РЕВОЛЮЦИИ - The revolution's kid

left low side - ВЗГЛЯД В БУДУЩЕЕ - The view to future

right side - БУДЬТЕ КАК ДОМА, НО НЕ ЗАБЫВАЙТЕ, ЧТО ВЫ В ГОСТЯХ - Feel at home, but don't forget that you're a guest

This week for me so similar with crap... Ugh... I am looking forward to receiving my new books about Oleg Yankovsky...

and maybe you want to read about one Soviet movie at nearest time?

There are absolutely no people in my family who know The shield and the sword (well, my grandmother may have heard something, but when the film was released 2 episodes at a time in the cinema, she was 17). No wonder none of them know about the movie Мне было 19/Ich war neunzehn (I was 19) by Konrad Wolf.

In Soviet cinema so more exapmles for Soviet citizens in enemy territory as spy, prisoner, victim for demonstration of their brave and opposition to the forces of the Reich, but... what about Germans, whom does not agree with Nazi ideology? Germans in USSSR like comrades, soldiers from Red Army?

Ich war neunzehn - the rare representative this ganre.

The biographycally story from Konrad's live.

The protagonist - 19-year old Grisha (Gregor) Hecker (Jaecki Schwarz). He is Red Army's propagandist, who is trying to convey to the soldiers of the Reich that the war is about to end in a loss for them. And he don't know who is he. German? But he not Nazi. Soviet? Possibly.

The scene at the beginning of the film, when Grisha is appointed mayor of the Bernau city, is eloquent:

"Say to me, lieutenant, where are you from?"

"From Moscow, comrade General.''

''No, where you was born?''

''In Köln, comrade General.''

This movie apart from war, it's about feeling yourself, trying to identify yourself. Grisha identifies himself as German, but not a Nazi. For the Germans, he is a stranger, for the Soviets, in fact, too.

Throughout the film, I was haunted by the feeling of Grisha's loss, as when you grew up in an international family, but the face and self-image do not match. It's like everyone's constantly trying to put you in a skin that's too tight for you.

Only, perhaps, for his friends - Vadim and Sasha, Grisha was Grisha without labels.

More and more Elsa Wulf from The Shield and the Sword.

According book description she made red hair color...

The real Elsa's name is unknown - only her lastmane. Sasha know her real lastname from chief - tovarisch Baryishev and Elsa has lastname Orlova.

In my AU, her real name could have been a real Soviet name, made up of the names of leaders of the communist movement in the Soviet Union, or new terms.

I like think about that was... Vilora (Вилора) - from first literas of slogan «Владимир Ильич Ленин — Организатор Революции» (Vladimir Ilyich Lenin— The Organizer of the Revolution). Or Vladlena (Владлена) from Vladimir Lenin.

So.

I think 'dis song so suitable for Sasha…