Yet Again...

 ... somebody singled out those 32 minutes of hell on earth of a real war from Sergei Bondarchuk's greatest creation of War and Peace. More than two centuries passed but those morons still learned nothing. Morons being of course NATO planners. 

OK, how to put it politely--even for Waterloo they asked Bondarchuk to shoot the movie. But Waterloo was inconsequential for the faiths of Europe, except for this Swedish band which still doesn't want to leave us alone (they never will, even after 200 years), but the reality of war as hell remains and, what became clear, Western mind from Pentagon to Western media is not ready to face the reality of the real war. Russia is ready, West is not--they never learned real military history.

Mosfilm Finally Decided...

To upload a whole of Bondarchuck's masterpiece War and Peace. And here is the deal, apart from mind-boggling battle scenes throughout the whole movie, the Battle of Borodino--a horrifying mutual slaughter of Russian and French which became the bloodiest single day battle in history--the portrayal of this battle, as well as its eve is nothing which ever will be repeated in our life time and no CGI will ever be able to substitute these 40 minutes of the greatest war movie ever made. 

It is incomparable in conveying both the savagery and, in the same time, dark magnificence of the action. In about 8 hours of battle roughly equal (around 120,000 each) French and Russian Armies sustained by different estimates 90,000 casualties. Owen Connely in his excellent Blundering to Glory gives numbers of 37,000 Napoleon, 51,000 Russians, if I am not mistaken. Now you can experience it in full. I watched it fist time as a 9 year old boy. It was a rerun (again sold out) in many movie theaters with separate showings in the course of two days. In movie theater, on the big screen and sound the experience was overwhelming. It was also the first genuine artillery battle in history. So, enjoy if you will.