The thing they always do in movies where the revolutionary does some arbitrary evil thing to show that actually they’re worse than the status quo factions.
I recently replayed CoD: world at war and the game is absolutely obsessed with showing soviet war crimes against wehrmacht soldiers - every level had some set piece depicting mass executions. This wasn’t done to the same extent in levels where you play as western allies. Everyting to make soviets less sympathetic I guess
Mom can we get depictions of the Red Army in our ww2 stories?
We already have those at home.
The depictions: Enemy at the Gates
This is pretty much TV tropes whole website because there can never be a correct side according to shitass trope one shitillion four hundred and forty three
It’s pretty simple to make it seem like the second option. Make it a heroic and celebratory moment rather than some reeling, regretful one where the character stumbles back and looks at the literal blood on their hands. Add some symbolism, like daybreak shining on the scene, and all who witness it are filled with a sense of relief and justice.
