Victory over Nazi Germany (1945)

Footage №194829,

Reel №1

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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.

Keywords

Great Patriotic War, announcement, joy

Persons:

Yuri Levitan is an announcer for the All-Union Radio.

Shooting locations:

Moscow

Reel №2

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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.

Keywords

Great Patriotic War, joy, end of the war

Persons:

Ivan Konev - Soviet military leader and statesman

Calendar:

1945

Reel №3

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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.

Keywords

joy, solidarity, end of the war

Calendar:

1945

Shooting locations:

Europe

Reel №4

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Soviet soldiers wave caps and tank helmets outside a building in Berlin.

Keywords

joy, end of the war, Great Patriotic War

Calendar:

1945

Shooting locations:

Berlin

Reel №5

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Various broken German military equipment on the battlefield.

Keywords

end of the war, weapon, rout

Chronicle Subjects:

World War IIHistory

Reel №6

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Soviet soldiers cover the gun.

The artillery crew bids farewell to the gun, kissing the base of the barrel.

Keywords

end of the war, weapon, Great Patriotic War

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