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Ugly? I kind of thought about him as normal. The way most soldiers are. An ordinary guy that'd rather be at home with his family than dieing in someone elses war. The three stories were all based during the retreat through Russia in 43/44 and no there was no political message in any of them. I'm just interested in the Eastern Front and doing an animation about something I'm interested in helped with my motivation.
The first story was on the Kalmuk Steppes. The one you see I thought of being in about March 43, around maybe Kharkov and the ideas I had for the third one would have placed it in a small Ukrainian village. He's escaping from the chaos and panic caused by the fall of Stalingrad. He's weaponless, not eaten or slept properly for weeks. If he doesn't get killed by the Russians he'll be executed by the MP's because he's lost his unit.
In the first he survives being almost crushed by a tank, in this one he survives being blown up and in the third he freezes to death. All very jolly family entertainment.
So while you may think of him as ugly, I think of him as used.
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