When more than ten years of war mobilization and patriotic education have pushed millions of ordinary people into the dark trenches, the luster of the crown has dimmed in the hearts of ordinary people.
On Christmas Eve in 1914, soldiers from both sides walked out of the trenches to spend the holiday together. This is not only the human desire for peace and beauty, but also a serious reflection on the individual independence of ordinary people in the entire Western society.
They became the most important supporters of the October Revolution when the gray "animals" of the Eastern Front no longer wanted to be livestock. When the German High Seas Fleet was ordered to take on the invincible Royal Navy, angry Kiel sailors turned their guns. Shameful people had to end this shameful war when orders from London, Paris, Berlin reached hundreds of kilometers of trenches with no response and angry gazes from soldiers.
The film "Merry Christmas" tells a warm and sad story, and tells how the treasures of today's Western society came to be. This is not a disease of wealth caused by material filling, but a civilized experience of blood and tears.
There has never been a savior, nor an immortal emperor.
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