



Moscow.
Loudspeaker.
Radio room control panel and signal lamp.
View of the Kremlin.
Crowds of people on Red Square.
Off-screen, Levitan reads the decree establishing May 9th as a holiday.
Great Patriotic War, announcement, joy
Yuri Levitan is an announcer for the All-Union Radio.
Moscow




Girls run up to an elderly woman and hug her.
Soviet soldiers dance in the back of a passing truck.
People rejoice, kiss, and hug the soldiers.
Wounded soldiers in hospital gowns dance on crutches.
Soviet officers in the crowd fire into the air in celebration of victory.
Marshal Konev rides on horseback with a bouquet in his hands.
Joyful people applaud.
Great Patriotic War, joy, end of the war
Ivan Konev - Soviet military leader and statesman
1945




A line of Soviet and British officers marches.
People with British flags wave their hands joyfully.
Crowds of joyful people line the streets of European cities.
joy, solidarity, end of the war
1945
Europe




Soviet soldiers wave caps and tank helmets outside a building in Berlin.
joy, end of the war, Great Patriotic War
1945
Berlin




Various broken German military equipment on the battlefield.
end of the war, weapon, rout




Soviet soldiers cover the gun.
The artillery crew bids farewell to the gun, kissing the base of the barrel.
end of the war, weapon, Great Patriotic War