The last battle of the war. The Unknown War №19 (1979)

B. Lancaster speaks at the map (synchronously).

Newsreel: 1945 - F. Roosevelt, W. Churchill and I. Stalin at the Yalta Conference. 1942 - German troops at Stalingrad.

Burning Stalingrad.

Japanese General Oshima among German officers at Stalingrad. 1930s - Military parade in Berlin.

Equipment passes, children chant.

Hitler at the parade.

Japanese delegation at the parade.

Head of the Japanese delegation Tojo on the tribune.

Mussolini on the tribune.

Goering gives a child a military helmet.

Militarization of Japan: children in military uniform, a soldier at a cannon, kamikaze smear their faces with paint, cannons of warships fire. 1931 - Japanese aggression in Northern China. 1938 - Events at Lake Khasan: Japanese soldiers climb a mountain, Soviet observers, a cannon fires, explosions. 1939 - Khalkhin Gol: Japanese soldiers fire a cannon, a tank drives by. G.K. Zhukov at the map.

Mongolian soldiers on camels.

Soviet troops advance - cannons fire, an airplane drops bombs.

Corpses of Japanese soldiers.

Japanese soldiers carry the dead on stretchers.

Japanese at a border post.

Border post.

Soviet border guard.

Newsreel - Japanese soldiers in formation.

Japanese soldiers in camouflage coats walk in the snow.

Airplanes at the airfield, Japanese pilots, aircraft in the air.

Japanese military equipment: tanks, guns.

Japanese warships.

Photographs of Japanese military leaders: Tojo, Umezu. 1939 - Parade in Berlin.

Hitler at the parade. 1941 - Moscow.

Japanese Foreign Minister Matsuoka and Molotov sign the Neutrality Pact between the USSR and Japan.

Stalin is present at the signing ceremony.

Stalin and Molotov with glasses of wine.

Stalin and Matsuoka.

Submarine in the bay.

Japanese sailors load a gun.

Torpedo.

Soviet ship explodes.

Japanese sailors.

Anti-Soviet demonstrations in Manchukuo.

Lesson in a Japanese school.

Moscow - Parade on November 7, 1941. November 7, 1941 - Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor: Japanese planes bomb American ships.

Statement by US President F. Roosevelt (synchronously).

Japanese aggression in Asia - Japanese soldiers and military equipment in various countries.

Newsreel - Japanese soldiers lead prisoners of war.

Prisoner of war camps - prisoners read, make shoes, sew, play cards, smoke.

Speech by Japanese Prime Minister Tojo (synchronously.) Japanese aggression in China - Japanese soldiers beat people, bury people in pits, shoot people.

Japanese prisons.

The Chinese population is taken out of the captured territories to Manchuria.

The Chinese do earthworks.

Construction of fortifications, pillboxes.

Parade of the troops of the Kwantung Army: soldiers and equipment march past.

Troops of White émigrés march past. 1945 - Berlin.

Soviet traffic controller at the Brandenburg Gate.

Potsdam Conference - Stalin greets Churchill.

Stalin, Truman and Churchill.

Conference session.

Return of Soviet soldiers from Europe - soldiers say goodbye, a train rides, soldiers on a train.

Landscapes in motion.

Trains with military equipment heading to the Far East.

Work at the port.

American cars.

Photos of Soviet military leaders Vasilevsky, Meretskov, Malinovsky.

Map of Manchuria.

Vasilevsky and others at the map (on the eve of the offensive).

Kremlin embankment (evening).

Photo of Stalin.

Still from the feature film "His Butler's Sister".

Deanna Durbin sings (synchronously).

B. Lancaster speaking (synchronously).

Newsreel - August 8, 1945. Soviet troops on the eve of the offensive on Japan: infantry on motorcycles, planes at the airfield, artillery.

Commander of the 1st Far Eastern Front Marshal Meretskov boards a plane.

Soviet military equipment and troops in the taiga.

Japanese soldiers firing a cannon, shelling from pillboxes and flamethrowers.

Wounded Soviet soldiers.

Katyushas firing, battle.

Soviet aviation bombs Japanese positions.

Combat operations on the 2nd Far Eastern Front: Front Commander General Purkayev, battle on the banks of the Amur, landing of troops, air shelling, crossing on a pontoon bridge, tanks in a swamp, Japanese soldiers firing, offensive of Soviet troops and equipment.

Combat operations of the Amur Military Flotilla.

Combat operations on the Transbaikal Front: Front Commander Marshal Malinovsky.

Soviet military equipment and soldiers climb the mountains to the Greater Khingan Range.

Battle in the mountains.

Newsreel - General Pliev, commander of the Soviet-Mongolian cavalry-mechanized group, is being shaved.

Marshal Choibalsan and Pliev.

Cavalry passes by, equipment is carried on camels, soldiers push a cart.

Newspapers are printed, the newspaper "Pravda".

Map of the fronts.

The advance of Soviet troops: tanks, planes, artillery.

Japanese equipment is moving along the road.

Japanese soldiers are shooting, they are running to attack.

Battle.

Military operations on Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands - a boat near the shore, explosions, shelling of a cave, landing of troops.

Ships at sea, landing of troops, battle on the streets of the city.

Soviet aviation blocks Japanese airfields, Japanese planes explode in the air ("aerial hara-kiri").

Captured Japanese generals.

Newsreel - Captured Japanese soldiers and officers.

Corpses in trenches, broken military equipment and fortifications.

Signing of the Japanese surrender act on the battleship Missouri - the act is signed by representatives of the USA, England, France, and the USSR. Photographs of American prisoners of war.

Concert - Soviet soldiers dance on stage, Americans listen and applaud.

Ceremony in memory of the dead - a general carries a wreath, sailors and soldiers kneel.

Soviet troops pass by, residents greet the soldiers, platforms with equipment and soldiers pass by.