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I'm glad Armie is mature and did limited press for the movie because not doing press is unprofessional but I'm also glad this side of the story is out too. Because he isn't right wing and he doesn't have an issue with immigrants. He's an immigrant for all those years he lived in another country as a child.

Looking forward to his next two films that won't have this right wing message.

Also, as a Canadian Uwe Boll lives in my Canada as an immigrant. He's got a lot of nerve. Smh.

PS. This makes sense why a friend like Ashton hasn't promoted the film on his ig stories.

I've seen a lot of posts like this, actually, and let's see if they can be real. That probably means he won't be filming Part 2??

Even though Uwe Boll is a controversial figure (and I've been following his account closely lately, from the time they shot the film until just before the promo), and even though I don't agree with his ideas—which I sometimes find extreme—I'll still be grateful to him for the opportunity he gave Armie.

I’d like to underline something that’s important to me. Up until now I haven’t expressed my opinion, but I see that this discussion has been going on for days on social media. I don’t think the problem is the film itself. It’s a film, it tells a story, and we could talk for hours about the various aspects that deserve analysis. The real issue is the way this film is being instrumentalized. Films like this have always existed, but here people are taking a very clear stance because it has become a political banner for the right.

Ehrlich was a Polish Jew born in 1882, and an avid socialist (as were many European Jews at the time). He was a member of the Bund (the Jewish labour party) and ran against Zionist Yitshak Schipper in the Warsaw Kehilla.

On October 4, 1939 he was arrested by the NKVD (the Sovyet secret police) and subjected to interrogation for 10 months. On August 2, 1940 he was brought before a tribunal and accused of spying for the Nazis. He denied the charges, but the tribunal sentenced him to death. While he awaited execution, the sentence was commuted to 10 years in gulag. He wasn't released until a year later as part of the Sikorski-Mayski agreement between the Sovyet Union and Poland.

Upon his release he was asked to join the newly-formed Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee, which he formed with Viktor Alter under Stalin's blessing. The JAC was chaired by Solomon Mikhoels, the director of the Moscow Jewish Theater.

On December 4, 1941, just 10 months after the JAC's formation, Ehrlich and Alter were arrested in Kuybyshev by the NKVD. No reason was given for their arrest. Albert Einstein and Eleanor Roosevelt, both prominent social activists, petitioned Stalin to release Ehrlich and Alter, but were ignored.

On February 23, 1943 following the Sovyet victory in Stalingrad, Sovyet ambassador Maxim Litvinov wrote to William Green to tell him that Ehrlich and Alter had been executed on Stalin's orders.

Despite this, the JAC was fiercely pro-Sovyet. They led campaigns to fund the Red Army, and broadcast statements about the lack of antisemitism in the CCCP. In July 1943, Mikhoels and Itsik Feffer led the largest American pro-Sovyet rally in history, where over 40,000 people listened to him praise Stalin's efforts against the Nazis.

In January 1948, Mikhoels was killed by the MGB (the other Sovyet secret police) in a staged car accident.

Sovyet persecution of Jewish anti-fascists continued until 1952, when most of the prominent members of the JAC were arrested and executed. 7 months later in August, at least 13 prominent Jewish poets, including Feffer, were rounded up, brought to the basement of Lubyanka prison, and executed as part of Stalin's "Great Purge".

take this with a big grain of salt

I will miss you 💙

yes I saw and I don't know what to expect from today podcast

Even if that were the case (and honestly no one can be sure unless you anon have done it), Armie has been through far too much over the years, with the worst insults ever seen so I don't see anything wrong with that.

random in the comments:

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save me money marge

A minimum of 300 thousand in Tel Aviv alone, probably closer to 500 thousand

300 thousand Israelis is a little over 3 percent of the Israeli population; if there was an American protest of that magnitude today that would be almost 11 million protestors

Almost a million protestors is 10% of the population, which would be 34.2 million Americans protestors

This is unprecedented