In the movie The Cranes are Flying shows how you can lose someone so fast to getting drafted. Even though Boris was not drafted and he volunteered but he was probably going to get drafted anyways. This movie shows romanticized views of war propagated by socialist realism. In the beginning of the movie they were skipping and looked so happy together but then Boris got sent off into war and Veronika became very lonely and emotionally fragile. Veronika ended up marrying Boris’ step brother Mark after Mark rapped and took advantage of Veronika. Do you think Veronika married Mark because of the rape or because she thought she would never see Boris again?
