Construction of defensive fortifications (1941-1942)

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Scene №1 Construction of defensive fortifications

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Stories 1-3:

Western Front, men and women go to build defensive lines, dig anti-tank ditches, build dugouts, anti-tank defense lines.

Calendar: 1941

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Calendar: 1941

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Calendar: 1941

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People work on the construction of defensive fortifications.

A woman is talking to a soldier.

Women drive poles into the ground, pull barbed wire.

Panorama of the railway and the village.

Calendar: 1942

Locations: Moscow region [788]

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People on earthworks for the construction of defensive structures.

Village houses.

Anti-tank ditch, reinforced with logs.

The bunker.

Posts with barbed wire.

People dig a ditch, break large, frozen clods of earth.

Calendar: 1941

Locations: Moscow region [788]

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View from the bunker on the road.

Ready-made defensive structures, a moat with anti-tank "hedgehogs" , on the bridge over the moat, horses carry sledges.

Calendar: 1941

Locations: Moscow region [788]

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Stories 7-8:

The command inspects the fortifications.

Calendar: 1941

Locations: Moscow region [788]

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Calendar: 1941

Locations: Moscow region [788]

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