I decided I did not like Vladimir Putin's accent so I searched for more pleasing Russian sounds. By chance I discovered that the Red Army Choir still exists as a performing arts ensemble. It brings us the official music of the Soviet Union from its MySpace page. It has performed with the Finnish rock band Leningrad Cowboys, and now it apparently performs traditional Russian music.
This is already mirabilis but moreso is the archival footage of whose existence I learned while discovering the Red Army Choir. You can watch celebrations on Red Square and feel nostalgic, as I do (nostalgia is longing for what you never had). The victory celebration after the Great Patriotic War leads inevitably to footage of the Battle of Stalingrad.
From Stalingrad you are led back in time to Verdun. I was amazed to find so much footage of the Great War, so I decided to try the earlier Boer War. There is footage of that, too, including staged footage by Thomas Edison. He also filmed the Spanish American war, including Cuban prisoners waiting for transport, but I could not discern how much of his footage was staged and how much was not.
Axé.
