A film about the joint struggle of the Soviet and Polish peoples against Hitler's fascism during the Second World War.
A film about the common struggle waged by Soviet and Polish soldiers on the fronts of the Great Patriotic War. Battles for Wroclaw-Breslau. Burning houses. Explosions in the streets. Soldiers running down the street, carrying a wounded man. The city of Sandomierz. The grave of Hero of the Soviet Union V. Skopenko, who died in the battles for the city of Wroclaw. The city of Wroclaw. V. Skopenko Street. Sandomierz during the days of liberation. A Soviet soldier hands over the banner to a Pole. A mass grave on the battlefield near Lenino. The Polish delegation at the mass grave. Rally. September 1, 1939. Germany's attack on Poland. Arrested Poles standing. Prisoners behind barbed wire, on the gallows. Major Hubel's detachment (photo). Germany. Berlin. Morning of June 22, 1941. Goebbels speaking in front of a microphone. Trains with soldiers and equipment passing through Poland to the Soviet front. Members of the Polish underground blow up trains and railways. German soldiers search people and houses. Volunteers enlisting in the Polish army. Formation of the first division of the revived Polish army. Tents in the forest. Polish soldiers taking the oath. December 1941. Arrival in the USSR of the Prime Minister of the Polish government in exile in London W. Sikorski to participate in negotiations on ways of cooperation in the war against Germany. W. Sikorski and Anders at a reception with M. I. Kalinin, in the camps near Buzuluk, where a Polish military unit is being formed, speak (simultaneously in Polish). Polish units in the Middle East. Sending the first Polish Kosciuszko Division to the front. First issue of the newsreel "Fighting Poland". The first battle of the Kosciuszko Division in the Smolensk region (Lenino village). Kovpak's partisan unit. Photographs of Polish partisans. Delegation of the Krajowa Rada Narodowa headed by M. Spychalski with Polish soldiers. Wartime Moscow. Enrollment of volunteers for the front. Recollections by A. Lebedeva, who was part of the reconnaissance landing force dropped behind the front line near Mlawa (synchronously). Former Polish patriot Groniewicz recalls the destruction of a German training ground (synchronously in Polish). July 1944. Troops crossing the Bug. The population greets the liberators. Battles for the city of Lublin. G. Korchinsky's partisan detachment enters the city. Rally in the city square. W. Gomulka speaks. Division of land in Poland. Crossing the Vistula. Battles for the Warsaw suburb of Praga. Views of Warsaw before the war and during the war. Jewish ghetto. Album of SS General Stroppa. August 1, 1944. Armed uprising in occupied Warsaw. Camera operator Roman Banach. Insurgents, including children, on the barricades. Capitulation of the insurgents. Formation of new regiments and divisions in Poland. Work in the rear. Moscow. Parade of German prisoners along a city street. Demining of Warsaw streets. Population clearing the city. Queue for flour. City of Krakow. Streets, squares of the city. Architectural monuments. Liberation of the city. Soviet command marches along the street. Young people in a cafe. Bride and groom leave the church. Pomeranian rampart. Soviet and Polish command of the troops that took part in the destruction of the rampart. Polish soldiers enter the fortress. Camera operator Mikosha films the battle for Elbląt. City of Gdansk. Polish and Soviet soldiers march. Polish soldiers in the Argus Courtyard, raising the Polish flag. General Kosygin and General Swierczewski by the fire. Chronicle. 1923. Moscow welcomes Polish communists. K. Swierczewski in Moscow, in Spain. The Battle of Berlin. The flag raised over the Reichstag.
A film about the joint struggle of the Soviet and Polish peoples against Hitler's fascism during the Second World War.