Great feat (1970)

Pigeons fly over a bridge over a river.

A mother teaches a small child to walk.

Young parents with a child are walking.

Young men and women, young couples, a soldier with a girl are walking down the street.

Newsreel 1941-1945: Soldiers in the trenches smoke cigarettes, rest, read letters.

A bust of Hitler in a junk shop in a Dutch town, people laugh, looking at the sculpture in the shop.

Newsreel 1941-1945: Soviet soldiers with a flag run to the Reichstag building.

In liberated European cities, people tear down fascist flags, swastikas, smash a sculpture of Hitler, burn fascist flags.

Newsreel: US aggression in Vietnam - American planes fly, soldiers arrest Vietnamese, set houses on fire.

Vietnamese women and children in shelters.

Israeli soldiers lead an arrested Arab.

Corpses of Arabs shot by the Israelis.

Military vehicles of the "black colonels" on the streets of Athens.

American military bases in different countries.

Missiles at the bases, soldiers at the controls.

Police disperse an anti-war demonstration, beat up demonstrators.

March of revanchists in the FRG. Neo-Nazi leader von Thadden passes by.

Women at a meeting of the neo-fascist organization "NDP".

Newsreel from 1945: Storming of Berlin by Soviet troops.

The Brandenburg Gate is burning, white flags are hung from the windows of houses.

Newsreel from the 1930s: Pre-war Berlin - flags with swastikas are hanging, soldiers are marching.

A lesson in a French school.

Children answer the question "Who is Hitler?" - "He is a monster who wants to kill everyone ... " etc. (synchronously).

Newsreel 1938: British Prime Minister Chamberlain, returning from Munich, makes a speech, shows the non-aggression pact with Germany.

The crowd welcomes Chamberlain.

Newsreel 1939-1940: Fires in London after a raid by German planes.

The wounded are carried out of the ruins.

The French defensive "Maginot Line" - tunnels, engine room, kitchen, observation post, fortifications.

German troops on French territory.

French refugees on the roads, a German plane fires at the road with refugees.

A column of French prisoners of war passes.

Residents of Prague welcome German soldiers.

Fires in German-occupied Warsaw.

German soldiers in Norway.

Refugees on the roads, a German soldier posts an order for the residents of Norway.

Hitler's soldiers arrest civilians in European countries.

Arms production at military factories in occupied Europe.

Cartoon - "Plan Barbarossa".

Veterans of the Great Patriotic War on Red Square in Moscow and other cities celebrating the 25th anniversary of Victory.

Meetings of fellow soldiers.

Newsreel from 1941: German tanks cross the border of the USSR, German planes fly, fires on the ground.

Newsreel 1941-1945: A village in Nazi-occupied territory is burning, German soldiers are shooting civilians, there are corpses of murdered women and children.

A Soviet soldier throws a grenade at a German tank.

Soviet soldiers are running to the offensive, firing from machine guns, assault rifles, guns are firing, a German tank is burning, Soviet tanks are advancing, a signalman with a radio in a trench.

A German plane is flying, Soviet anti-aircraft guns are firing, a German plane is burning and crashes.

Broken German equipment on the battlefield.

The advance of German troops deep into Soviet territory, German soldiers in trenches, fuel tanks are burning.

A mobile German radio station, a German soldier broadcasts in Russian a demand to surrender (synchronously).

The ruins of the Brest Fortress, inscriptions on the walls made by the defenders of the fortress, the corpses of Soviet soldiers who defended the fortress.

A blood-stained party card is taken out of the pocket of a dead soldier, and blood-stained party cards of dead soldiers.

A portrait of V. I. Lenin with the inscription "I'm going into battle, you're with me, I'm dying a communist..." Guns are firing from ships defending Odessa.

Odessa, days of defense - fortifications on the streets, a tram passes by, an appeal to the defenders of the city on the wall of a house.

Soviet sailors on land are fighting the Germans on the approaches to Sevastopol, shelling of enemy positions from ships.

Leningrad during the blockade - a gun embankment, a warship on the Neva, people walking along a snow-covered street, an inscription on the wall of a house "This side is the most dangerous during artillery shelling", tanks drive along Nevsky Prospect, a soldier conducts surveillance from the roof of a house.

Wartime Moscow - shop windows on Gorky Street covered with sacks, Red Square with a camouflaged Mausoleum, a camouflaged building of the Bolshoi Theater, military patrols on Sverdlov Square.

Anti-aircraft guns on the Kiev Bridge and other defensive points in the city.

Residents of Moscow dig anti-tank ditches on the approaches to the city.

Columns of soldiers and equipment go to the front.

Militiamen receive weapons: rifles, grenades.

Actions of partisans behind enemy lines - partisans fire at German soldiers in a village, blow up a railroad bed.

A train with a German punitive detachment passes, the Germans fire at the forest from guns from the train, blow up a bridge, the train cars fall off the slope.

A partisan detachment in the forest, fires are burning, a parachute landing from an airplane at the partisans' location.

Sending small children from the German-occupied zone to the Soviet rear by plane and train.

A woman with a child in her arms in a carriage for evacuees.

Production for the front at an unfinished evacuated plant.

Metallurgists in the shops of the Magnitogorsk Combine.

Trucks with grain for the front are moving, miners are working, women and children are working in the shops of a military plant, ready-made shells.

A monument to the defenders of Moscow on the Leningradskoe Shosse.

Newsreel 1941-1945: The offensive of German troops near Moscow, a German officer looks through binoculars at Moscow, German officers over a map.

Military parade on Red Square on November 7, 1941 - columns of troops on the square, soldiers listen to the speech of I. V. Stalin (synchronously).

March of units of the Red Army heading to the front.

Newsreel 1941-1945: Soviet troops advance near Moscow.

Generals K. Rokossovsky and I. Konev at an observation post.

Generals G. Zhukov, V. Sokolovsky and other military leaders at headquarters over a map.

Cartoon - a map of the defeat of the Germans near Moscow.

Counteroffensive of the Soviet troops - Katyusha rockets and cannons are firing, a massive bomber sortie, bombs are falling on German positions, explosions on the ground, tanks and infantry attack, skiers in camouflage suits go on the offensive, corpses of German soldiers on the battlefield.

German soldiers emerge from shelters with their hands raised, surrender, a column of German prisoners of war, captured near Moscow, passes along a winter road.

Broken German equipment.

French Resistance fighters listen to a radio report of the defeat of the Germans near Moscow.

Bulgarian and Yugoslav partisans listen to the radio, rejoice, and smile.

A French partisan sticks a leaflet on the wall calling for resistance to the German invaders.

Partisan activity in the occupied countries of Europe includes blowing up railway lines and cutting communication wires.

German occupiers in the Greek Acropolis.

German machine gunners lead Greek priests.

Hitler's portrait in the monastery gallery.

Concentration camp - barbed wire, barracks, crematorium ovens, corpses of tortured people.

Hitler inspects the concentration camp, prisoners locked behind wire.

Monument on Mamayev Kurgan (shot from a helicopter).

New buildings in Volgograd.

Newsreel 1941-1945: Stalingrad during the war.

Fires in the city, street fighting, mortar men firing, a wounded soldier being led, machine gunners taking up positions in the ruins.

General V. I. Chuikov at the command post.

Funeral of soldiers killed in the battle for Stalingrad. 1941-1942. Great Britain: Parade of British troops. W. Churchill at the parade. 1941-1941. Combat exercises of the American army - artillery firing at mock enemy ships, infantry attacking a simulated enemy, landing of troops.

The German Navy attacks an American convoy of ships heading to the USSR with food and equipment.

Construction of tanks and aircraft at Soviet factories in the rear.

Echelons with military equipment heading to the front.

Battle on the territory of the Stalingrad Tractor Plant.

Participants in developing the plan for the counteroffensive at Stalingrad called "Uranus" Generals: A. M. Vasilevsky, N. N. Voronov, N. F. Vatutin, K. K. Rokossovsky, A. I. Eremenko and others - close-ups (shot in 1942).

Cartoon - map of the Battle of Stalingrad.

The beginning of the Stalingrad counteroffensive - guns and Katyushas are firing, tanks are attacking, infantry is running.

The junction of two fronts, which have trapped German troops in a "cauldron".

German soldiers surrender, Germans with a white flag.

Field Marshal Paulus and members of his staff hand over documents to representatives of the Soviet command.

Captured Germans.

Soviet tanks drive through liberated Stalingrad.

Funeral ceremony in Berlin on the occasion of the defeat of Paulus's German army at Stalingrad.

The Volga River, panorama of a killed German soldier.

Newsreel 1941-1945: Great Britain: A celebration is taking place at the Royal Palace in London in connection with the victory of the Soviet troops at Stalingrad.

British Foreign Secretary A. Eden speaks (synchronously).

The USSR flag is raised in the hall, the "Internationale" is played, those present applaud.

A film report from the front - medics on the battlefield bandage the wounded, troops advance to new positions, troops crossing a river, parachute landing in the Caucasus Mountains, a battle in the mountains, a mortarman fires.

Residents of the Caucasus present General A. A. Grechko with a saber.

Leningrad during the breakthrough of the blockade - guns fire, tanks and infantry advance.

Soldiers of the Leningrad and Volkhov Fronts embrace.

Fireworks in Leningrad in honor of the lifting of the blockade.

Fireworks on a ship.

Tehran Conference of Allied Countries. W. Churchill presents I. V. Stalin with a sword of honor, a gift from King George VI. V. M. Molotov and K. E. Voroshilov are present at the ceremony. I. V. Stalin, F. Roosevelt and W. Churchill are photographed on the palace veranda.

Soviet soldiers in the trenches on the eve of the Battle of Kursk – reading newspapers, smoking, checking their personal weapons.

Generals K. K. Rokossovsky, P. S. Rybalko and I. S. Konev survey the surrounding area from a dugout.

The commander speaks on a field telephone.

Military leaders at a map.

Cartoon - map.

Counteroffensive of Soviet troops on the Kursk Bulge – Katyusha rockets and artillery fire, tanks move.

Tank battle between Soviet and German troops.

Soviet aircraft bomb German positions, explosions on the ground.

Panorama from an airplane of destroyed German equipment.

Filming by German cameramen - retreat of German troops in the area of the Kursk Bulge.

The Germans set fire to houses, destroy the railway line.

Bread is burning in the field.

Soviet tanks drive along the streets of liberated cities.

Salutes in honor of the liberation of cities from German occupation - different shots.

Soviet soldiers hoist banners in cities liberated from the German invaders - different shots.

Close-ups of jubilant people.

Soviet troops force the Dnieper.

Residents of liberated cities and villages greet Soviet soldiers.

Soldiers hug women and children.

Map showing the Soviet border violated by Germany on June 22, 1941 and the restored border of the USSR from the Black to the Barents Seas (double exposure).

Soviet soldiers drive along the street of one of the European cities liberated from occupation.

Battles on the territory of Europe - guns are firing, a tank battle, soldiers are dragging a cannon.

Battles for the liberation of Budapest.

Bandaging and leading a wounded soldier.

Warsaw destroyed by the Nazis, civilians shot.

Soviet soldiers lead out prisoners of a concentration camp, carrying children in their arms.

Polish refugees return to the liberated city.

A column of soldiers of the allied armies passes by.

Landing of troops in Normandy - soldiers and equipment head to the shore, enter the battle.

American soldiers captured by the Nazis in the Ardennes.

American prisoners are led in a column to a concentration camp.

Newsreel 1944-1945: The landing of British troops in Greece.

Tanks, military equipment and infantry drive along the streets of Greek cities.

British soldiers conduct military operations against members of the anti-fascist Greek Resistance, arrest Greek patriots.

Residents of Romanian cities greet the Soviet soldiers-liberators.

Residents of Poland joyfully greet Soviet soldiers.

Soviet soldiers and fighters of the Polish Army march along the city street.

Soldiers of the Czechoslovak Corps stand in formation.

General L. Svoboda inspects the formation of soldiers.

Residents of Bulgaria greet Soviet soldiers and Bulgarian partisans.

Residents of Prague greet Soviet soldiers.

Soviet soldiers talk to peasants (in one of the European countries), a peasant woman treats the soldiers.

In the liberated (European) country, peasants receive documents for land use, put pegs in the fields.

Workers and peasants in the former royal palace looking at paintings.

Unveiling of monuments to Soviet soldiers-liberators in different cities of Europe.

Unveiling of a monument in Budapest.

Cemetery of Soviet soldiers in a European country.

A stone on a grave with the inscription "Teddy bear-tanker".

Cemetery in the forest.

Cemetery in Italy.

A stone on a grave with the inscription "Here are buried soldiers of the Soviet Army who fought bravely on the battlefield".

Cemetery in Warsaw, a monument in Prague.

A monument in Treptower Park.

Monuments to Soviet soldiers in different cities of the USSR. Eternal flame at the Kremlin wall.

Children, people of different ages lay flowers at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.

Newsreel of 1945: Combat actions of Soviet soldiers on the territory of Germany, the advance of tanks, infantry.

Road sign "Germany", tanks are moving, a traffic controller girl points the way to Berlin.

Soviet military leaders at a map on the eve of the storming of Berlin.

The battle for Berlin - guns are firing, Soviet soldiers are running down the street, shooting, medics are carrying the wounded out of the line of fire.

Soviet soldiers are leading hidden German soldiers out of the ruins.

Street fighting.

The Soviet flag is raised over the Reichstag.

On Red Square on May 9, 1945, people are hugging and congratulating each other on the Victory.

Celebrations in New York, London, Paris.

Bells are ringing.

The Victory Parade on Red Square on June 24, 1945. Columns of troops are passing by, soldiers are throwing fascist banners at the foot of the Mausoleum.

Marshals G. M. Zhukov, A. M. Vasilevsky, K. K. Rokossovsky, N. N. Voronov, I. S. Konev, L. A. Govorov, K. A. Meretskov, A. I. Eremenko, I. Kh.

Bagramyan at the Victory Parade - close-ups.

Victory Parade in Moscow: military equipment drives by (various shots).

Newsreel from 1967: Ukraine: A. A. Grechko, L. I. Brezhnev, A. A. Kosygin, N. V. Podgorny, P. E. Shelest are standing on the tribune during the parade of troops that took part in the Dnepr exercises.

Missiles on the march.

Newsreel from 1945: Soviet soldiers demobilized after the victory in 1945 walk by, a soldier with a girl in his arms.