How it was 11.07.2001 (2001)

The program theme is "The USSR in the Vietnam War". 1965-1973. In response to the US aggression in Vietnam, the Soviet leadership in early 1965 decided to provide the "brotherly Vietnamese people" with large-scale military-technical assistance.

According to American data, at the height of the war this assistance amounted to 2 million dollars.

Only the crews of anti-aircraft missile systems (SAM) took direct part in the hostilities.

The first battle between our anti-aircraft gunners and American aviation took place on July 24, 1965. By the end of the war, the USSR had supplied Vietnam with almost a hundred S-75 Dvina SAM systems and more than 7.5 thousand missiles for them, which shot down 1,300 enemy aircraft.

As is known, the Americans were defeated in this war, losing almost 60 thousand people killed and missing.

Our losses in Vietnam, according to the latest data, are 16 people.

The names of only seven of them have been established.

The very fact of the USSR's participation in this war was officially recognized only in 1989. In the studio: Glazunov E.P. - Counselor of the USSR Embassy in Vietnam in 1962-65, Konstantinov V.M. - participant in the first battle of Soviet anti-aircraft gunners against the Americans on July 24, 1965, Kolesnik N.N. - participant in the first battles with the Americans in Vietnam in 1965, Stuchilov Aleksandr Ivanovich - senior of the anti-aircraft missile forces group in Vietnam in 1968-69, Shavkun I.P. - participant in the first battles with the Americans in Vietnam, Hyupenen Anatoly Ivanovich - senior of the group of Soviet military advisers in Vietnam, Roslyakova L.I. - employee of the Soviet Army at the headquarters of the Senior Group of Soviet military specialists in Vietnam, Yuryev Anatoly Leonidovich - officer who served in Vietnam, Kleymenov Fedor, economic adviser.

Chronicle: Naval guns fired, US Phantom aircraft, US amphibious landing in Vietnam, preparation for launch of Soviet surface-to-air missile, combat missile launch, burning planes at airfield, Ho Chi Minh tribune, Vietnamese people greet their leader, Kremlin panorama, Soviet specialists consult Vietnamese military, pilot enters cockpit of MiG-21 aircraft, MiG-21 aircraft takes off, Vietnamese pilot in cockpit of flying MiG-21, Vietnamese anti-aircraft gunners fire at aircraft, US aircraft crashes, Vietnamese march, Soviet workers at rally in support of Vietnam, Vietnamese loading cannon with shell, Vietnamese seaport of Haiphong, Transport and loading vehicle with missile, Soviet military specialists in instrument room, downed US reconnaissance drone, US Air Force emblem, downed US helicopter, tank, cannon, Nixon cartoon, US servicemen reporting to officer, returning from Vietnam, US withdrawal from Vietnam.

Fragment of the film "We are always with you, Vietnam."