How it was 08.05.2001 (2001)

The program theme is "Parade on Red Square on November 7, 1941." Moscow, November 1941. The Germans are 20 kilometers from the capital.

Special awards "For the capture of Moscow" have already been prepared, and a plan for a Wehrmacht parade at the Kremlin walls has already been approved.

On November 6, a meeting of the city's party activists is held at the Mayakovskaya metro station.

Stalin announces his decision to hold a military parade on Red Square, but the troops are not informed of this decision.

The parade participants - mostly fresh units from Siberia - learned about the parade only immediately before they went out onto the square.

Preparations for the parade were generally conducted in an atmosphere of strict secrecy - it was even announced that it would take place on the Crimean Bridge.

The organizers were afraid of bombing, but because of a terrible snowstorm, German planes could not even take off.

Budyonny took the parade, and Stalin also spoke.

The parade participants recall this historic day vividly and in detail, unanimously agree that it was largely due to the patriotic upsurge that Soviet soldiers defeated the Nazi units near Moscow.

In the studio: Sergei Markov - Chief of Marshal Zhukov's personal security, Maria Budennaya - Widow of Marshal of the USSR S.M. Budyonny, veterans Vladimir Boyarsky - Colonel, Sergei Maslov, Gevorg Chobonyan, Praskovya Sergeeva - Senior Medical Battalion Paramedic - participants of the 1941 parade, Georgy Filipov - Regiment Squad Commander.

Chronicle: Nazi chronicle: German tanks, a German officer looking through binoculars, an artillery crew at a gun, a map of the offensive on Moscow, Hitler, a German soldier in a helmet, the tracks of a German tank, the Kremlin, balloons in Moscow, a soldier next to a machine gun, a military patrol on the streets of Moscow, women digging with shovels, a tank at the Pushkin monument, an anti-aircraft gunner looking at the sky.

Shop windows with bags of sand, a tractor towing a long-range gun, a meeting of the Moscow City Council at Mayakovskaya station, Stalin and Budyonny, Beria L.P., Stalin on the platform, Columns of participants in a military parade, horsemen on horses, trucks with guns, tanks, Stalin and members of the Politburo standing on the platform of the mausoleum, Stalin making a speech,