Liberation of Belarus. The Unknown War №14 (1979)

B. Lancaster speaking on the Kremlin square (simultaneously in English).

Newsreel - 1944. Soviet soldiers are marching.

Churches and cathedrals of Novgorod destroyed by the Nazis.

Footage of German athletes performing - an athlete throws a shot, throws a javelin, gymnastics exercises.

Monuments destroyed by the Germans, an old man rings a bell, burning villages, people are crying, a boy crawls out of a basement, a girl cooks porridge in the street.

Soviet soldiers hand out bread to people.

The people welcome the Soviet soldiers.

The city is burning.

Soldiers are passing by, tanks are moving.

Soviet soldiers are sawing logs, pushing a stuck car, crossing a river.

Soldiers are playing the accordion at a rest stop, warming themselves by a fire.

Moscow - Red Square, the Kremlin.

Cartoon - map of Operation Bagration.

Commanders of the fronts that took part in the implementation of the Bagration plan: General Bagramyan - commander of the 1st Baltic Front, General Chernyakhovsky - commander of the 3rd Belorussian Front, General Zakharov - commander of the 2nd Belorussian Front, General Rokossovsky - commander of the 1st Belorussian Front.

Soviet tanks are moving, troops are advancing.

General Vasilevsky at headquarters.

Telephone operators are working.

Marshal Zhukov passes by.

Soviet tanks are advancing, planes are flying.

June 6, 1944 - opening of the second front: bombing of the Allies in Normandy.

Allied fleet.

Landing of troops.

Allied tanks are moving.

Soviet troops preparing for an offensive - soldiers in trenches, officers at a map, soldiers hanging aerial bombs, pilots passing by, pilots putting on parachutes, a plane taking off, planes in the air, bombs falling, explosions.

Belarusian partisans lay a mine, a German train explodes.

Soviet guns firing.

Destroyed German equipment, killed German soldiers.

German soldiers running along a trench.

A German officer looks through binoculars, Germans at a map.

Katyushas firing, Soviet soldiers running to attack.

The commander looks through binoculars, soldiers smoking in a trench.

The offensive of Soviet tanks and infantry.

German guns firing, German soldiers.

A German throws a grenade, explosions.

Soviet soldiers running to attack.

German tanks firing, Soviet soldiers firing.

Newsreel - Soviet soldiers shooting, commanders watching, soldiers in trenches, explosions.

Soldiers carrying a wounded man, a nurse bandaging a wounded soldier.

Soviet troops crossing the river.

Cannons and Katyushas firing.

Soldiers jumping out of boats.

Planes firing at the road.

German planes flying, German anti-aircraft guns firing, shelling of the railroad.

Soldiers running after a tank.

Soviet troops entering liberated Vitebsk.

Burning buildings, Soviet soldiers leading captured Germans.

Broken German equipment - tanks, planes.

Battles for the liberation of Minsk - General Rokossovsky, Soviet tanks firing, soldiers running under fire.

Soviet tanks on the streets of Minsk, burning buildings, soldiers firing, a cameraman filming.

Panorama of the destroyed city.

The swastika is thrown down from the building, residents welcome the liberating soldiers, raise the Soviet flag.

Minsk - various.

Newsreel - Fascists blow up a building, destroy a railway track.

Fighting on the streets of the city - a soldier shoots at a window, Soviet soldiers run, a destroyed building.

A refugee woman, people cry, a funeral procession moves.

Newsreel - Captured German soldiers and officers at the Moscow Hippodrome.

Columns of German prisoners of war march through the streets of Moscow, people watch.

Representatives of the Allied powers watch. B. Lancaster speaks (synchronously in English).

Newsreel - A burning village.

A monument in Khatyn. B. Lancaster speaks at the monument (synchronously in English).

Newsreel - A village is burning, women are crying, the bodies of the dead.

A woman talks (synchronously) about the atrocities of the fascist punitive forces.

Newsreel - Prisoners of a concentration camp liberated by Soviet soldiers.

Children are taken out of a pit, soldiers carry children in their arms, put children in a cart.

Children in the hospital.

A monument in Khatyn.

People are kneeling.

Newsreel - Soviet soldiers in the liberated Brest Fortress.

Soviet troops are crossing the Bug River - troops are crossing, cars and tanks are driving, soldiers are shooting, explosions.

Newsreel - Battles in the Baltics: Soviet soldiers charge, soldiers crawl through the forest, a machine gunner fires, dead.

Battle at the cemetery.

A burning village.

Klooga concentration camp - dead prisoners.

A partisan at the coffin of his wife killed by the Nazis.

Funeral procession.

German soldiers surrender.

Battles to liberate Baltic cities - cannons fire, tanks drive by, soldiers charge.

Liberated Tallinn - burning buildings in the city, refugees walking down the street, a wounded soldier being put in a car.

Liberated Riga - a soldier hoists a Soviet flag, a woman kisses a soldier, pours wine for a soldier, soldiers are given flowers.

People greet Soviet soldiers, wave flowers.

Fighting in East Prussia - General Chernyakhovsky and a group of officers leave a dugout.

A plane takes off, General Chernyakhovsky looks on.

Soviet aviation bombs German cities.

A downed plane falls, bombs explode, a burning city, an explosion on the railway, burning tanks, a fire, a destroyed German factory.

Hitler on the train.

German officers work.

Hitler looks out the train window.

Hitler with officers at the map.

Newsreel - Germany.

Trial of those involved in the assassination attempt on Hitler: those involved, judges, the accused Count Schulenburg.

Total mobilization in Germany - the Germans are building fortifications.

Hitler surrounded by German officers.

Battles for the city of Konigsberg - Soviet tanks are driving by, guns and mortars are firing, houses are destroyed, soldiers are running down the street, carrying a wounded man, a car with soldiers is driving by, soldiers are raising the Soviet flag.

Broken German equipment, dead.

A column of German prisoners of war is passing.

Soviet soldiers are resting - shaving, smoking, sleeping.

Monument to Bagration, landscapes, old cannons.

Monument in Novgorod, landscapes.