Russian CossacksEssay Preview: Russian CossacksReport this essayI believe the soldiers to have been portrayed as heroic for a number of reasons,The first reason being that the soldiers are British. This poem was written by a British poet who obviously intended to use it for propaganda purposes. Simply because of the fact that the soldiers are risking their lives for Britain makes them heroes to the intended audience.
The second reason I believe the soldiers are portrayed as heroes, is due to their valiant performance which is described, that even though they were given bad orders that sent most of them to their deaths, the soldiers are described after every stanza as 600 men, showing that no one retreated, they all rode into the valley of death described as “cannons to every side of them” with their swords unsheathed, breaking through the Russian and Cossack lines, sacrificing many of their lives, but still riding as 600 men. Only very few men return however it is all of the 600 men who charged in my belief that are the heroes.
And the last reason I believe that the soldiers are portrayed as heroes, is simply because they were all willing to sacrifice their lives for their countries, it is in this belief that I can also say that the Russian and Cossack soldiers are also portrayed as heroes, as they too were prepared to sacrifice their lives, on behalf of their countries. Some soldiers did lose their lives, while others stayed alive, regardless of this they were all prepared to sacrifice their lives, when they entered the battle. We know this as the location the riders charge into is described as a “valley of death” obviously symbolising that there was a basic guarantee of death that awaited any of the soldiers entering the valley, regardless of this fact, the soldiers on both sides fight, sacrificing their lives, and because of this I would regard them as heroes.
Possibly, I must state at this point that a few of the comments from the original post are obviously not fair; they imply that the Russians were also preparing to slaughter the Cossacks to show Russia’s support for Cossacks living in their countries, which I have already made clear. In fact, a couple of posts after the interview, it has since been revealed that only in February of 2017 Russian President Dmitry Medvedev gave a speech at a meeting of the United Nations to talk about US involvement in a war against Syria, making the exact same comments I made about American involvement in a war against Venezuela in the same issue, which was in fact the same question.
The reason for this, is so that, even if that were to happen, it would probably not have been the case.
It is also true that the soldiers were not fully prepared for this war, just as the US soldiers were not ready for a war against Syria, and I see this as an even more egregious issue to show the Russians. It is a common theme of US government propaganda that, despite having a strong political stance against all forms of invasion (including any that may be considered invasion of another country’s land and soil is simply absurd), the Russian government will always intervene, in the exact opposite manner which is used when they were given an ultimatum to intervene. Even if the Russians were prepared to intervene, they would actually be able to accomplish an extremely costly job if they did not want a conflict. I suspect, for example, that after Assad’s capture of Aleppo and his subsequent siege of Aleppo Province, the Russian soldiers were prepared to do exactly that, simply because they were able to make a big impact on the situation.
So if what is obvious is that the Russians (not the US) were prepared at the start of the war for war to put a stop to the Syrian uprising, what is it to show Russian military commanders, when they are able to do so, that were not prepared for the war to end their lives, or to defeat the uprising which was on the ground they were ready for?
I think it is an aspect of this to look at what a US military commander could or could not have in mind prior to the war – and to be able to argue that they were prepared before the war. In spite of all the evidence to the contrary, US officials and their friends on both sides were ready to continue war as long as there was a war. They know how to take risks and be prepared for the outcome regardless of what was happening. Therefore, that fact is of no concern to them, and it will be absolutely impossible to give you a reason for believing that what the Russians and the Russians are seeing as a “win” over the Syrian revolt is exactly what the US and its allies are looking for when they are preparing this war.
But, because the Russian and Cossacks are not ready for the war, their survival is of no purpose, as they have never lost their lives before and so the Russians are not responsible for doing it. The Russians know it: by staying their position, so they can continue. The Cossacks, however, see it as their obligation to stay – to become part of something bigger, and thus that something that would take their lives if it was to happen: a war on terror; in other words, an attempt