* {{Anvilicious}}:
** While starting in the tone of a pamphlet to the glory of the Tsar and the MightyWhitey Golden Age of Travel, it slowly fades to a critique of a heartless and selfish modern world that will destroy the deep and highly spiritual relationship of the natives with their environment.
** "During the Manchukuo period, the Nanais were practically wiped out in China by the Japanese. They had been confined to prisoner camps and in 1949 they numbered about 300 in China." From Website/{{Wikipedia}}. Fortunately, it got better.
* SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments: Dersu is also full of these, as he seems to be a generous and (from an European point of view) a [[NobleSavage noble man]] unspoiled by civilization.
* SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome: Dersu is full of these. Arseniev and his pals have some too.
* TearJerker: If Dersu's end don't induce you to drip some ManlyTears, you may consider yourself emotionally dead to all effects.
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