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  • Additionally, the inscription “1941” was changed to “1939” - the year when World War II began.

    Why it was 1941-1945, for context, from wiki:

    On 9 April 2015, the Ukrainian parliament replaced the term Great Patriotic War (1941–1945) (Velyka vitchyzniana viina) in the country’s law with the “Second World War (1939–1945)” (Druha svitova viina), as part of a set of decommunization laws. Also in 2015, Ukraine’s “Victory Day over Nazism in World War II” was established as a national holiday in accordance with the law of “On Perpetuation of Victory over Nazism in World War II 1939–1945”. The new holiday is celebrated on May 8 and replaces the Soviet-Russian Victory Day, which is celebrated on May 9. These laws were adopted by the Ukrainian parliament on April 9 2015 within the package of laws on decommunization.












  • This piece of interview with Roger Corman on Joe Dante’s work on trailers is my fawourite:

    "Were there any elements that you had to tell Dante to tone down?

    Not really. There was one memorable moment when Joe showed me a trailer for a picture just before lunch. I said, “Joe, it’s alright, but it isn’t quite as exciting as I would like it to be.” He said, “Let me work on it through lunch.” I came back after lunch, and it was exactly the same trailer, trimmed a little bit, with an exploding helicopter. I said, “Joe, that’s an exploding helicopter from a war picture we shot in the Philippines!” He said, “Well, don’t you think it helps the trailer?” It did. It was great. And I thought about it for a little while, and I figured, there’s no law that says every scene in a trailer has to be in the picture. So we left it in. After that, whenever Joe had a dull moment in a trailer, he would add the exploding helicopter."

    Src, full interview