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Who is the hot, intense Hero of the Soviet Union I have used as my new (current ) Avatar ?

Her name was Yevgeniya Rudneva. She was a Commander of The Night Witches. This was a Russian womans only squadron of bomber pilots who undertook relentless nightime raids on German army positions during WW2.
The woman used 1920's open cockpit Bi planes. They had no parachutes. They often did 10 plus bombing missions a night...

I found a fascinating documentary of this squadron which interviewed a number of the surviving members. Pretty gutsy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yevgeniya_Rudneva
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_Witches
 
Apache by The Shadows Nostalgia,
So what are The Shadows doing in 2020.
Actually still playing...

 
The current Avatar I am using is Maximilian Kolbe. Recently I have been using the Avatar to highlight people I believe deserved recognition who don't come under the heading of celebrity/business tycoon/whatever

Max was a Polish priest who volunteered to die in place of a stranger in the German death camp of Auschwitz.

At the end of July 1941, one prisoner escaped from the camp, prompting SS-Hauptsturmführer Karl Fritzsch, the deputy camp commander, to pick ten men to be starved to death in an underground bunker to deter further escape attempts. When one of the selected men, Franciszek Gajowniczek, cried out, "My wife! My children!", Kolbe volunteered to take his place.[7]

According to an eyewitness, who was an assistant janitor at that time, in his prison cell, Kolbe led the prisoners in prayer. Each time the guards checked on him, he was standing or kneeling in the middle of the cell and looking calmly at those who entered. After they had been starved and deprived of water for two weeks, only Kolbe remained alive. The guards wanted the bunker emptied, so they gave Kolbe a lethal injection of carbolic acid. Kolbe is said to have raised his left arm and calmly waited for the deadly injection.[13] He died on 14 August. His remains were cremated on 15 August, the feast day of the Assumption of Mary.[20]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximilian_Kolbe
 
Watched Spotlight on Netflix over the weekend.
I knew of the story but hadn't read it in detail. This movie is outstanding in showing

1) The power, corruption and depravity that was rife through the Catholic Church in Boston
2) The tenacity required by reporters and management of the Boston Globe to effectively uncover the unthinkable criminality of the Catholic Church

Spotlight is a 2015 American biographical drama film directed by Tom McCarthy and written by McCarthy and Josh Singer.[4][5] The film follows The Boston Globe's "Spotlight" team, the oldest continuously operating newspaper investigative journalist unit in the United States,[6] and its investigation into cases of widespread and systemic child sex abuse in the Boston area by numerous Roman Catholic priests. It is based on a series of stories by the Spotlight team that earned The Globe the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service.[7] The film features an ensemble cast including Mark Ruffalo, Michael Keaton, Rachel McAdams, John Slattery, and Stanley Tucci, with Brian d'Arcy James, Liev Schreiber, and Billy Crudup in supporting roles.[8]

Spotlight was shown in the Out of Competition section of the 72nd Venice International Film Festival.[9] It was also shown at the Telluride Film Festival and the Special Presentations section of the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival.[10] The film was released on November 6, 2015, by Open Road Films and grossed $98 million worldwide.[3] It won numerous guilds and critics' association awards, and was named one of the finest films of 2015 by various publications. Spotlight won the Academy Award for Best Picture, along with Best Original Screenplay, from six total nominations.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spotlight_(film)
 
Watching Spotlight reinforced my appreciation for the role of a strong, independent media in holding institutions and individuals to account.

It would have been completely impossible for law enforcement authorities to do the research that joined the dots which finally implicated the Church hierarchy in concealing the hundreds of priests abusing children in their parishes and schools.
 
Went to the movies last night and saw Tenet.
It was useless waste of money and time.
I really struggle with what anyone was supposed to get out of it.
 
I enjoyed the premise of Tenet though not so much the execution, thought it was a bit messier and not as high a payoff as Memento, Inception, Interstellar. Still rather watch a film that tries something new than other movies though.

Uncut Gems was a fun movie too, not as cringy as I had heard about and surprisingly enthralling.

Watched the full series of Money Heist and Vis A Vis on Netflix. Peak of binge watching, think I watched about 60 hours in a couple weeks and loved every moment. They're 2 of the most popular shows globally (both are Spanish) and could see why.
 
Capital in the Twenty First Century.

On Netflix USA so you will need VPN.

Doco on how Capital has morphed from something exclusively owned by the aristocracy pre French Revolution to its most egalitarian distribution as seen in post WW2 capitalist societies, but has since reverted to being primarily owned by elitist corporations as the middle class are slowly forced down the social scale.
 
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