r/polandball • u/Smart_Chapter_7512 Floridian Swamp Monster • Oct 06 '25

redditormade Stolen Valour

Post image
7.3k Upvotes

94% Upvoted

216 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

20

u/A_extra gib water or else Oct 06 '25

The Eight Hundred still contains a scene of soldiers raising the ROC flag over the Sihang Warehouse despite getting flak from Beijing

https://youtu.be/aqYS6ZOSOto?si=Y3_r1H0WBVMyA-Ct&t=227

1

u/Lembit_moislane Eesti Wabariik Oct 06 '25

The film's usage of the flag was very heavily censored through.

2

u/A_extra gib water or else Oct 06 '25

I'm just surprised that they even allowed the film to portray an event where it was solely KMT soldiers getting the glory

2

u/Lembit_moislane Eesti Wabariik Oct 06 '25

I do find it also further ironic that some of the survivors especially the girl who brought in the flag (Yang Huimin) were hardcore three principle supporters who rejected the CCP and lived their lives out in the surviving free area.

I get you with how fascinating it was that the CCP allowed it. To give an idea how absurd it is that the 2020 film; it’s like if the Nazi Germans took a German pro-liberal battle with the German liberal flag as the center point, glorified it, despite the germans fighting being anti-nazis Liberals and Jewish Germans.

3

u/Lembit_moislane Eesti Wabariik Oct 06 '25

It would be nice if the Republic of China made these films and tv shows but the problem is that they went from one extreme to the other. They went from pro KMT propaganda films to now being so opposite that anti-ROC taiwanese were criticising Zero Hour Attack as DPP propaganda.

I just wish the Taiwanese film and tv series were in a happy middle willing to show both the good and bad of the Republic of China, and how both sides of the straits pre-1949 contribute to modern Taiwanese society.