person of the week №1 12.05.1995 (1995)

WWII veteran Mark Gallay talks about his passion for airplanes and admits that he would agree to take part in the parade on May 9, but only as a pilot.

Video footage: pilots of the 1930s; jumping with a parachute, different types of airplanes, on the runway, in the sky.

The airplanes formed a figure of the letters "USSR" in the air.

Mark Gallay refutes the assertion that during the war the main call to battle was "For the Motherland, For Stalin!" He has never heard the second part of the slogan.

He fought for his country and for his people, whom he loves very much.

Video footage: volunteers go to the front.

Establishes the scope of Stalin's responsibility for what happened during the Great Patriotic War.

Talks about the events of 1937. Points out the existing discrepancies between the official declarations of the Communist Party and the deeds it carried out.

He is incomprehensible to people who go to demonstrations with a portrait of Stalin.

Mark Gallay has tested 125 aircraft.

He is curious about space flights, but still prefers to deal with airplanes.

He speaks ironically about existing modern parties and their leaders.

Fragments of the documentary film "Munich 1936".

Fascist symbols, torchlight procession.

Modern representatives of nationalist radical movements in Russia.

Victory Parade on Red Square.

WWII veterans march in formation.

Mark Gallay talks about the neglect of veterans, about the fact that their problems are only addressed on the eve of May 9 - Victory Day.