In the movie "Birth of an Empire" you can see that the entire Russian history represents one line of resistance to the attempts to drive Russia into a corner. This opinion was expressed in an author's column by Vesti journalist Dmitry Caistro. "In the movie "Birth of an Empire", Charles XII confidently exclaims: "Father has already driven the Russian bear. But the bear came out again. We will have to explain to him that a new hunter has appeared in the forest." This is not just personal bravado, but an echo of the centuries-old logic of anti-Russian containment. In the 20th century this was crystallized in the anaconda theory. The purpose of the doctrine is to squeeze Russia through a ring of limitations, technologies and capabilities to cut it off around the market, to gird borders. The state will force it to spend resources on maintaining the scope, not on development." Castro also noted that the film "Birth of an Empire" is a conversation about difficult things, realized through the same historical material.