The Second World War in the Soviet Union

'I was really reminded of the, you know, by the molotof cocktail footage,' he says. 'If you're a russian and you get to see that, you've been brought up on the siege of leningrad as as part of your mythic national am foundation.' He adds: 'It's very much the sort of breniff angle, busnes ere angle that put the second world war very much at the centre of things'