The Great Patriotic War (1965)

Newsreel - 1941. Soviet soldiers march in formation during the first months of the war, fighters go to the front in the fall of 1941. Soldiers in a trench, sailors on a boat, cavalry on the march.

Columns of Soviet prisoners of war, captured by the Nazis in the first days of the war.

Partisans in a winter forest, fighters drag a gun on their backs, Soviet soldiers move to new positions, vehicles with soldiers drive along a front-line road, a medic carries a wounded soldier from the battlefield.

The Eternal Flame burns.

The Motherland Monument at the Piskarevskoye Cemetery Newsreel from the 1930s - SS parade in Berlin.

They carry a fascist swastika, burn books at the stake.

Hitler's book "Mein Kampf".

Crowds of people shout "Heil Hitler!" Hitler's speech to the crowd - synchronously.

Anti-fascist demonstration of German communists led by E. Thalmann. E. Thalmann speaks from the rostrum.

Demonstration of German workers opposing Nazism.

Bankers and industrialists supporting Hitler's rise to power.

The ceremony of "transfer of power" to Hitler by German President Hindenburg.

Newsreel of 1945 - Soviet troops storm Berlin: artillery operations, street fighting, loading guns with shells bearing the inscription "To the Reichstag", firing "Katyusha" rockets.

Columns of German prisoners captured during the capture of Berlin march along the streets of Berlin.

White flags are hung in the windows of houses, Soviet tank crews with a banner drive along the streets of Berlin.

Soviet soldiers hoist the Victory Banner over the Reichstag.

Grigory Bulatov with a banner - close-up.

Newsreel of the 1930s - The Reichstag burns, set on fire by provocateurs.

Stormtroopers on the streets of Berlin.

Production of shells and guns in the workshops of German military factories, finished guns in the factory yard.

German youth in fascist uniform practice the gesture of greeting the Fuhrer.

SS parade at the Berlin stadium.

Speech by the People's Commissar of Foreign Affairs of the USSR M. Litvinov at the meeting of the League of Nations.

Representatives of European states present at the meeting.

Parisians on the streets greet Prime Minister Daladier, who returned after signing the "Munich Agreement".

Meeting in London of Chamberlain, who returned after signing the "Munich Agreement". 1939 - The attack of Nazi Germany on Poland - warships shell Gdansk, planes drop bombs on Warsaw.

Residents of Warsaw run through the streets, hiding from the bombing, fires in the city.

A Dane carries a white flag in capitulated Copenhagen, German troops march through the streets of Copenhagen.

Landing of German air and sea troops in one of the European countries.

German occupiers in Scandinavia.

German soldiers take pictures against the backdrop of ancient ruins in Greece.

A Greek boy cleans the boots of a German officer.

Hitler's troops in occupied Paris march along the Champs Elysees, a fascist flag is raised on the Eiffel Tower, soldiers drink wine.

English divisions leave French territory - boarding ships, ships at sea.

German planes bomb an English squadron, a ship sinks.

Hitler and German generals discuss "Plan Barbarossa" at a map.

Cartoon - cities of the USSR scheduled for lightning capture.

German tanks on the border of the USSR. Text of the report of intelligence officer R. Sorge on Germany's preparations for an attack on the Soviet Union.

Telegram from another intelligence officer confirming Sorge's report.

Resolution on Sorge's report.

Newsreel 1941: Pre-war Moscow.

Leningrad in the summer of 1941. Theatre poster "June 22, 1941. "Romeo and Juliet".

June 22, 1941 - Germany's attack on the Soviet Union: German troops on the border with the USSR, planes ready to take off, at the airfield.

German soldiers cross the Soviet border at dawn in the fog, German planes bomb the territory of the USSR. The fascists break the border barrier, tanks and motorcyclists drive by.

German planes bomb the Soviet airfield, Soviet planes and tanks are burning.

Soviet soldiers shoot at the advancing Germans, killed Soviet soldiers, Germans lead captured soldiers.

A column of German tanks advances, a village is burning, a woman is crying.

Poster "The Motherland Calls!" Rallies at Soviet factories dedicated to the defense of the Motherland.

Moscow Kremlin.

The Pravda newspaper with an appeal to the people to defend the Fatherland.

Volunteers receive weapons, grenades, and cartridges.

Collective farmers take agricultural machinery out of the frontline zone, steal cattle, and burn grain in the fields.

Volunteer detachments march through the city streets.

Volunteers sign up for the front.

Women see soldiers off to the front.

The advance of Hitler's army - tanks are driving by, shells are exploding.

Soviet machine gunners are firing at German tanks, a Soviet tank is in the line of fire, a German tank is burning.

Hitler's troops in the occupied cities: Kaunas, Grodno, Minsk, Riga.

Summer 1941. Moscow, the Kremlin, a radio tower.

People are listening to I. V. Stalin's speech (synchronously).

People are listening - short.

Soviet soldiers defend the Brest Fortress, ruins of the fortress, German soldiers in the captured fortress.

Graffiti on the walls left by Soviet soldiers: "I'm dying, but I'm not surrendering", "Farewell, Motherland".

Hitler and Mussolini inspect the ruins of the Brest Fortress.

The German troops advance on the territory of the USSR, a German shouts into a megaphone "Surrender!" (synchronously).,

Newsreel - Soviet soldiers fire rifles at advancing German troops.

German medics bandage the wounded.

Germans drive through a burning village, a German cameraman films in a burning city.

Retreat of Soviet troops, peasants give milk to wounded soldiers.

Nazis shoot at peasant huts, drive people to Germany.

Civilians leave with their families into the forest, to partisan detachments. S. Kovpak in a group of partisans in the forest.

A woman in a partisan detachment rocks a child in a cradle, partisans resting, a sentry on duty.

Soviet artillery shells German positions, Katyusha rockets fire, broken German equipment, killed German soldiers, abandoned German documents.

Interrogation of a captured German.

Newsreel from the 1930s - German youth chant "Heil Hitler!" (synchronously).

Soldiers of the foreign legions fighting on the side of Germany against the USSR pass by - Antonescu's Romanian units, Mussolini's Blackshirts, Mannerheim's regiments, Horthy's Hungarian units.

A train with soldiers of General Franco's "Blue Division" leaves for the front.

People dig trenches, build barriers.

Residents of Odessa build defensive fortifications.

Soviet artillery fires, a warship fires cannons at the enemy.

German planes bomb Sevastopol, the cannons of the Romanian legionnaires fire.

Soviet sailors on land and at sea fire at the Germans.

At the Sevastopol defense headquarters, Admiral F.S. Oktyabrsky, General Petrov and other military leaders develop an action plan for the defense of the city.

The coastal defense command is in the trenches.

Sailors with rifles and machine guns run to the attack.

A sniper makes a mark - keeps track of the number of slain fascists.

Sevastopol during the days of defense - explosions in the city, wounded sailors in shelter, funerals of the dead.

Soviet sailors leave besieged Sevastopol.

Leningrad during the blockade - anti-aircraft guns are on alert, city residents are building fortifications.

Murmansk.

Soviet troops are defending the polar border, guns are firing, soldiers are running to attack.

Wartime Moscow - a monument to A.S. Pushkin, a balloon in the sky, shop windows on Gorky Street blocked by sacks, anti-aircraft guns on the roofs of houses, sentries on the roofs.

Muscovites in a bomb shelter at the Mayakovskaya metro station.

Anti-aircraft guns fire at German planes, a burning plane falls. M.I. Kalinin presents an award to pilot V. Talalikhin.

Meeting of the Moscow Defense Headquarters.

Newsreel 1941-1945: Soldiers at the front reading newspapers.

Presentation of party cards to soldiers before battle.

Soldiers running into the attack.

Party card covered in blood.

Soviet fighters in the air, bombers bomb German positions near Moscow.

German troops advance on Moscow.

Moscow communists enroll in the people's militia.

Poster "Let's Defend Moscow".

Moscow in the winter of 1941 - barriers on the streets and squares.

Tanks on the streets, columns of soldiers passing by.

German tanks and military equipment on the approaches to Moscow.

Soviet soldiers in the trenches near Moscow.

Monument to the Panfilov heroes.

Photographic documents about the execution of Z. Kosmodemyanskaya.

Combat actions near Tula and other positions on the approaches to Moscow - guns and machine guns are firing.

A sniper fires, anti-aircraft guns fire in the sky over Moscow.

A ceremonial meeting on November 6, 1941, at the Mayakovskaya metro station. I. V. Stalin speaks, the participants of the meeting listen.

Military parade on November 7, 1941. I. V. Stalin and S. M. Budyonny on the government tribune.

Troops march across Red Square, heading to the front.

Close-ups of military leaders - leaders of military operations near Moscow: G. K. Zhukov, V. D. Sokolovsky, I. S. Konev, K. K. Rokossovsky, L. A. Govorov, I. V. Boldin, P. A. Belov.

Echelons with military equipment and ammunition for the defense of Moscow are moving.

The second offensive of Hitler's troops on Moscow in November 1941. German tanks and infantry are moving.

The Germans are looking at Moscow through binoculars.

Counterattack of Soviet troops near Rostov.

Residents of Rostov greet Soviet soldiers.

Soldiers hoist the flag over liberated Rostov.

Soviet offensive near Moscow - tank attack, infantry flees, Soviet planes bomb German positions, cavalry advances, parachute landing.

Cavalry enters a liberated village.

A nurse bandages a wounded soldier, a wounded man walks.

German soldiers surrender near Moscow.

Residents of liberated villages greet Soviet soldiers-liberators, a woman hugs and kisses a soldier.

A soldier hands out a printed message from the Soviet Information Bureau to the soldiers.

Soldiers knock down signs in German, throw down the fascist flag.

Soviet troops march along the streets of the liberated city of Kalinin.

Hidden German soldiers and columns of captured Germans emerge from the basements of houses.

The gallows and corpses of Soviet people executed by the Nazis.

Newsreel 1941-1945: Broken German equipment near Moscow.

A column of captured Germans passes.

British Foreign Secretary A. Eden is shown the battlefields near Moscow.

Corpses of German soldiers covered in snow.

A train with factory equipment passes, evacuated to the rear.

People work in the cold winter in temporary workshops of defense plants located in the steppes.

Tank production in the workshops of the Ural plant.

Women and children work in the shell production workshops.

Japanese aircraft bomb the American military base at Pearl Harbor, the port burns, an American warship sinks.

Japanese airborne troops land in Hong Kong at the location of British troops.

British soldiers surrender to the Japanese.

British soldiers surrender to the Japanese in Singapore.

Parade of Japanese troops in Singapore.

Military operations of the fascist expeditionary corps of Rommel against the British troops in the area of the city of Alexandria.

Captured British.

Rommel at the location of his units.

Hitler's generals at a meeting.

German aircraft bomb London, fires in the city, destruction.

German submarines in the Atlantic Ocean track down and fire at British ships.

Ships burn, explode, sink.

German soldiers on the Soviet-German front build barbed wire fences, dig trenches, warm themselves by the fire.

The city of Leningrad during the blockade - ships on the Neva, people enlist in the militia.

Manufacturing of shells in the workshops of Leningrad factories.

In a store, boxes of bread are unloaded, a saleswoman cuts bread into pieces.

Readers in the library.

Architect Nikolsky draws a sketch of the future "Victory Arch" at home, makes notes in his diary. D. Shostakovich works on the "Seventh Symphony".

The basement of the museum where the trophies of Russian soldiers are kept, the keys to the surrendered cities of Prussia.

Snow-covered transport on the streets of Leningrad, people draw water from the Neva, exhausted people fall from hunger in the street, bodies of the dead are carried on sleds.

Transportation of weakened residents by cars along the ice road of Lake Ladoga.

Tanks and trucks with food drive along Lake Ladoga.

Partisans carry a sled convoy with bread to besieged Leningrad.

German guns fire at Leningrad, Soviet soldiers fire back.

Revival on the streets of the city after the first winter of the blockade - cars drive through the melting snow, people walk by.

A partisan detachment in the forest, partisans take an oath (synchronously)

Newsreel 1941-1945: Partisans mine the railroad bed, explosion, carriages of a German train fall off the derailment.

German punitive forces comb the forest in search of partisans.

Fight in the forest.

Inscription in German and Russian "Attention!

Beware, partisans!" Partisan printing house, partisan newspaper "People's Avenger".

Poster on a tree "Greetings to the delegates of the 1st party conference of the partisan region!" Partisans listen to the conference session in the frontline forest, speak.

Loudspeakers in the streets, people listen to the Sovinformburo report.

The offensive of German troops in different parts of the front - infantrymen march, cyclists ride, military equipment moves.

German planes drop bombs, explosions on the ground.

German troops crossing the river.

Fighting on the approaches to Stalingrad - Soviet mortars are firing, tanks are advancing, planes are flying, cannons are firing, a German tank is burning.

Leaflet "Not one step back!" Field Marshal Paulus at the combat positions of German soldiers.

Pre-war Stalingrad.

German aircraft are bombing Stalingrad, houses are collapsing.

Soviet anti-aircraft guns are firing.

Residents on destroyed streets.

A shot down German plane is burning and falling.

Air battle.

The burning city of Mozdok, oil is burning.

German troops are moving along the roads of the Caucasus.

Residents of a mountain village see off volunteers to the front.

Fighting on the outskirts of Stalingrad, the fascists are breaking through to the Volga.

German soldiers are planting a fascist flag on Elbrus.

German awards intended for the victory in Stalingrad.

Burning Stalingrad.

The stay of the Prime Minister of Great Britain W. Churchill in Moscow.

Sailors of the Volga Flotilla deliver reinforcements to the defenders of Stalingrad, take part in military operations.

Army Commander General V. I. Chuikov at the map.

General Rodimtsev at headquarters.

Street fighting in Stalingrad, Germans on the streets of the city.

Newsreel 1941-1945: The city is burning, set on fire by the Germans.

German tanks on the streets of the city, German soldiers knock down the doors of houses with rifle butts.

German orders on the new order in the occupied territories.

German Minister A. Rosenberg with officers in the occupied territory.

Germans in the territory of occupied Ukraine - the commandant reads out the order (synchronously), peasants work in the fields under the supervision of soldiers.

The Germans take cattle from the peasants, drive the herds to Germany.

Statement by G. Goering.

Horses, sheep, boxes of food are loaded into wagons.

The Germans drive civilians into slavery - sending trains with people to Germany.

Trains with coal and oil pass by.

On the streets of occupied cities, the Germans search people.

A group of people is led to be shot.

Photo - the Germans hang people.

People dig a grave.

The Germans push living people into a pit and shoot them.

Crematorium ovens in a concentration camp.

People in concentration camps, hands with burned numbers, numbers on the hands of children, barracks with prisoners, bags with the hair of the executed, gold bars, mutilated bodies.

A fascist mocks an old Jewish woman.

Stacks of human bodies prepared for burning.

Hitler's command awards German soldiers.

The battle for Stalingrad - Soviet soldiers fire flamethrowers, tanks and infantry advance.

Transfer of troops and equipment for the defense of Stalingrad, crossing the Volga.

Military leaders G.K. Zhukov, A.M. Vasilevsky, N.N. Voronov, K. Rokossovsky, A.I. Eremenko, N.F. Vatutin - short.

Map of the Stalingrad operation.

The Soviet offensive on November 19, 1943 - cannons and Katyushas are firing, aircraft are bombing German positions, tanks and infantry are advancing.

Air battle.

Soviet anti-aircraft guns are firing.

Newsreel 1941-1945: Battles for Stalingrad.

A signal flare burns in the sky, Soviet troops advance, German soldiers raise white flags and surrender.

Soviet soldiers hoist a banner in liberated Stalingrad.

A column of German prisoners of war passes.

Field Marshal Paulus shows his documents to General Shumilov.

German prisoners are led through the streets of ruined Stalingrad.

Broken German equipment near Stalingrad.

Production of weapons for the Nazi army in European factories.

Work of industrial enterprises in the Soviet rear - construction of a new blast furnace, metal production.

Posters in the workshops "We must do it for the Front!", "There is metal for the Front!" Tank production.

Soviet aircraft designers working on drawings.

Designer S. V. Ilyushin at a model of a new aircraft.

Yakovlev's fighter in the air.

Designer A. S. Yakovlev in the design bureau.

Military designer V. G. Grabin at a cannon made according to his design.

Academician E. O. Paton in a tank factory shop, where the electric welding machine he developed is used.

The process of welding armor using the Paton apparatus.

Women in the shop check finished shells, process parts on machines, sew clothes, work in a mine, in a forge shop.

Female combine operators and tractor drivers work at harvesting grain.

A train with tanks is heading to the front.

A tank crew of the Mikheyev brothers.

The father of the Mikheyev brothers, D. F. Mikheyev, says goodbye to his sons leaving for the front.

The Mikheyev brothers at a tank purchased with personal savings.

Combat operations of Soviet aviation and tanks.

Concentration of German tanks in the Kursk Bulge area, German soldiers in the trenches.

Groupings of Soviet troops in combat readiness on the eve of the Battle of Kursk.

Soviet artillery fires heavily on German positions, tank battle, Katyushas are firing, a German tank is burning, German equipment is destroyed, corpses are on the battlefield.

Counteroffensive of Soviet tanks and aircraft.

Map of the offensive of 5 Soviet fronts in the Kursk Bulge area.

Close-ups of front commanders N. F. Vatutin, I. S. Konev, K. K. Rokossovsky, Popov, V. D. Sokolovsky.

Tank attack.

Newsreel 1941-1945: Soviet tanks drive through the streets of liberated Orel, residents greet soldiers, hug them, throw flowers.

Salute in honor of the liberation of the cities of Orel and Belgorod.

Residents of various liberated cities, villages, and towns greet the Soviet soldiers-liberators.

Salutes in honor of the liberation of Soviet cities from the German occupiers.

British and American ships in an Italian port, the landing of Allied troops in Italy, the naval battle of the Allies with Mussolini's Italian naval forces.

Italian soldiers surrender.

Italians rejoice in the streets in honor of Italy's withdrawal from the war.

Mussolini's speech to the people.

Italians throw down and smash a bust of Mussolini.

The prison where Mussolini was imprisoned.

The representative of the Hitlerite command O. Skorzeny, on Hitler's orders, takes Mussolini to Berlin.

Hitler meets Mussolini at the airfield.

German soldiers shoot Italian civilians.

Italian partisans fight against the German occupiers.

Photo of Mussolini praying before his execution.

Yugoslav partisans fight in the occupied territory.

Czech patriots, participants in the Slovak National Uprising, are camped in the forest.

Polish partisan units in the forest.

Albanian partisans in the mountains.

Bulgarian partisans fight against the fascists.

Greek partisans in the mountains.

French Resistance fighters lead a captured German soldier.

French warships burn and explode in Toulon, set on fire by partisans.

Fighting on the Soviet-German front.

Villages burn, buildings explode, the railroad bed collapses, German troops drive through the city they destroyed.

Gallows with hanged people, corpses of tortured adults and children.

The population returns to the liberated villages.

Women bake bread in an oven on a destroyed street, harrow fields, sow grain by hand.

Children work in the field.

A lesson in a destroyed school.

The destroyed Dnieper Hydroelectric Station.

Restoration of the Dnieper Hydroelectric Station.

Soviet troops force the Dnieper - fierce battles, crossing of troops and equipment under enemy fire.

Battles for the liberation of Kyiv.

Soviet soldiers drive tanks through the streets of liberated Kyiv, city residents greet Soviet soldiers.

Newsreel - Representatives of the German command at the map.

Retreat of the German troops.

Partisans in the areas occupied by the Nazis.

Commanders of partisan detachments S. A. Kovpak, A. N. Saburov, Commissar S. Rudneva, Shmyrev (Father Minai) - short.

Partisan camp in the forest, fires are burning, parachute landing behind enemy lines.

Partisan detachment commanders are developing an action plan.

Partisan combat operations in a village captured by the Germans.

In the liberated village, the German flag is torn down, German orders.

Siege of Leningrad - a sentry on duty, guns on ships and on land preparing for battle, guns are fired, explosions.

Ships of the Baltic Fleet shell German positions.

Broken enemy trenches, corpses of German soldiers.

Salute in honor of the breakthrough of the siege of Leningrad.

Smiling Leningraders.

Fireworks on Red Square in Moscow in honor of the defeat of the Germans near Leningrad.

A woman paints over a German inscription on the wall.

Children on the streets of post-siege Leningrad.

The advance of Soviet troops in Ukraine - Katyusha rockets are firing, tanks are moving, infantry is running.

Battles in the Korsun-Shevchenko cauldron.

Broken German equipment, columns of captured Germans are passing by.

Battles for Sevastopol - the storming of Sapun Mountain, Soviet soldiers are raising a flag in liberated Sevastopol.

Fires, broken German equipment.

A soldier kisses the ground.

Soviet ships are returning to Sevastopol Bay.

Columns of captured Germans, captured during the liberation of Crimea, are passing by.

Soviet soldiers are feeding a boy in liberated Sevastopol.

The advance of Soviet troops in Belarus.

Residents of liberated Minsk are greeting Soviet soldiers.

Hoisting the flag in liberated Minsk.

Columns of German prisoners of war, captured during the liberation of Belarus, march through the streets of Moscow.

Newsreel from the 1930s-1940s: Parade of Hitler's troops and aircraft.

Destroyed German planes and tanks on the battlefield.

Graves of German soldiers on Soviet soil.

Captured German generals and officers.

Marshal A. M. Vasilevsky at the firing line, Marshal L. A. Govorov at headquarters, Marshal F. I. Tolbukhin at the map, Marshal R. Ya.

Malinovsky at headquarters at the map, General I. Kh.

Newsreel from 1919 - V. I. Lenin at the military parade on Red Square.

Marshal K. K. Rokossovsky at headquarters, General K. S. Moskalenko at the map, Marshal S. K. Timoshenko and other military leaders at headquarters at the map, General I. D. Chernyakhovsky at the front, Marshal K. E. Voroshilov in a combat situation.

Newsreel 1941-1945: Soviet soldiers are marching - various.

A soldier consoles a crying woman, soldiers lead wounded soldiers.

Komsomol card of G. S. Kagalmyk.

The inscription on the card "I will die, but I will not retreat." Grave of G. S. Kagalmyk, portrait of Kagalmyk.

Soldiers at the grave.

Soldiers examine A. Matrosov's machine gun.

Columns of soldiers with machine guns and rifles pass along military roads.

A soldier hugs children, a soldier with a child in his arms, soldiers treat a girl to sugar.

A soldier plays the accordion at a rest stop, soldiers listen and dance. E. Gilels speaks at the front.

Soldiers pull a cannon over a pass, pull out equipment stuck in the mud, cross a river on a pontoon bridge, walk through a swamp.

Crossing a river with people and horses by swimming.

Soldiers sleeping in the forest.

Crossing by boat under enemy fire.

Soldiers in trenches in winter, soldiers on a front-line road in the rain.

Soldiers at the front receive letters, read them, look at photographs of their relatives.

A group of sailors getting ready for reconnaissance: the sailors hand in their documents and sail away by boat.

Komsomol cards of sailors killed in reconnaissance.

A nurse leads a wounded sailor.

Sailors congratulate a young sailor on his award.

Air battle.

Soviet commanders observe the progress of the battle from the ground.

A burning German plane falls.

Pilots congratulate their comrade who shot down an enemy plane.

A captured German pilot.

The advance of Soviet troops along mountain roads.

Soldiers support falling horses.

Soviet soldiers walk through a winter forest, drink water from helmets. 1944. Battles for the liberation of Romania.

Residents of liberated Bucharest greet Soviet soldiers.

Soviet soldiers and soldiers of the Bulgarian People's Army march through the streets of liberated Sofia.

Belgrade residents greet Soviet soldiers, fighters of the People's Liberation Army of Yugoslavia, and Yugoslav partisans.

The people greet I. Broz Tito.

The Polish people greet Soviet soldiers and fighters of the Polish People's Army, and greet the commander of the 1st Polish Army, Z. Berling.

The Soviet soldiers-liberators are greeted by the residents of Czechoslovakia.

Monuments to Soviet soldiers who died fighting the Nazi invaders in different countries around the world.

Newsreel 1941-1945: Opening of the 2nd Front: the Allied armies invade Normandy - planes fly, naval guns fire, troops land.

Allied military operations on French territory.

Soldiers of the French Allied forces take German soldiers prisoner.

British Field Marshal Montgomery in France.

The French flag in a liberated city.

The French greet General de Gaulle and give him flowers.

Paris occupied by the Germans.

Parisians build barricades.

Pilots of the Normandie-Niemen squadron, an air battle between the squadron's pilots and the Germans, a downed German plane falls.

Graves of fallen French patriots.

French Resistance fighters fight the Germans in the street.

Parisian women hug and kiss the French Resistance soldiers who liberated Paris from the German soldiers.

The French flag on the Arc de Triomphe.

A border post on the western border of the USSR, where the Germans began the war against the USSR on June 22, 1941. Lieutenant Obukhov, who fought his first battle at the border outpost, tells the soldiers about the beginning of the war.

Combat operations of the Soviet troops on the territory of Germany - tank and air battles, the infantry is advancing.

Buildings are collapsing in Berlin. G. Goering drives through the streets of destroyed Berlin.

Soviet soldiers free prisoners of a concentration camp, exhausted people come out of the camp gates, an old man holds a girl in his arms.

Soviet girls driven to Germany.

Liberated soldiers of the Allied armies leave the camp.

German troops are advancing on the positions of the Allied troops in the Ardennes region, destroyed Allied equipment, columns of captured American soldiers.

A book with the correspondence between I. V. Stalin and W. Churchill about helping the Allied troops.

The offensive of the troops of the 1st Belorussian and 1st Ukrainian Fronts.

Newsreel 1941-1945: Soviet bombers drop bombs on German positions, explosions on the ground.

Guns of the 1st Belorussian and 1st Ukrainian Fronts fire.

Troops of the Polish Army fight alongside Soviet troops in the battles for the liberation of Warsaw.

Street fighting in Warsaw.

Soviet and Polish soldiers raise the Polish flag in liberated Warsaw, soldiers hug and kiss.

Destroyed Warsaw, residents on the streets of the city.

Residents of Warsaw greet Soviet soldiers.

Meeting of the leaders of the Allied powers in Yalta - F. Roosevelt, W. Churchill and I. V. Stalin in Yalta, conference participants at a round table.

A sentry at the building where the conference is taking place, flags of the participating countries.

Troops of the 2nd and 3rd Ukrainian Fronts fight to eliminate the 200,000-strong German group encircled in Budapest.

Soviet command at the map of military operations.

Street fighting in Budapest, explosions in the city, burning buildings.

German cemetery in Budapest.

Streets of liberated Budapest.

Streets of Vienna, liberated by Soviet troops, jubilant people in the streets, the Austrian flag flutters, Soviet soldiers pass by.

Road sign ". . . 80 km.

Berlin".

A female traffic controller on the road leading to Berlin.

A train with tanks passes, Soviet planes at a German airfield, a train with fuel moves.

Soviet troops in combat positions.

An artilleryman loads guns with a shell with the inscription "To Berlin".

Katyushas fire, tanks and infantry go on the attack.

German equipment is burning.

Members of the Soviet command observe the progress of the battle for Berlin.

Storming of Berlin (day and night footage).

Street fighting in Berlin.

Soviet soldiers bring hidden German soldiers and officers out of their shelters.

Soldiers of the Polish Army fight on the streets of Berlin together with Soviet troops.

A Soviet soldier helps a disabled German.

A column of German prisoners of war captured during the storming of Berlin passes by.

The destroyed building of the Imperial Chancellery, artillery fires at the Reichstag.

Soviet soldiers raise the Soviet flag over the Reichstag, soldiers salute with machine guns.

Destruction in the city after the storming.

Soviet soldiers drive through the streets of liberated Berlin in tanks, ruins all around, columns of German prisoners pass by.

Graffiti on the walls of the Reichstag.

Meeting of the Allied Forces on the Elbe.

Newsreel 1945: The national flags of the USSR, USA and Great Britain are flying.

Representatives of the Supreme Commands of the Allies enter the hall to sign the act of surrender of Germany.

Field Marshal Keitel signs the act of surrender of Germany.

Marshal G.K. Zhukov, General V.D. Rokossovsky, General V.I. Chuikov, and representatives of the US and UK commands are present at the signing.

Tank divisions of the 1st Ukrainian Front on the way to Prague.

Soviet tankmen drive through the streets of liberated Prague, people greet Soviet soldiers.

Units of the Czechoslovak Army, created during the war, march through the streets of Prague.

May 9, 1945 - Moscow.

On Red Square, people "rock" a soldier, hug each other.

Demobilized soldiers are met at the Belorussky Station.

Soldiers walk by, women throw flowers, hug their relatives.

June 24, 1945 - Victory Parade on Red Square.

Standard-bearers of various branches of the armed forces stand in formation.

At the head of the columns are twice Hero of the Soviet Union D. B. Glinka, three times Hero of the Soviet Union A. I. Pokryshkin, marshals: K. A. Meretskov, L. A. Govorov, R. Ya.

Malinovsky, A. M. Vasilevsky, I. S. Konev, generals I. Kh.

The troops march in a ceremonial march.

Soviet soldiers throw fascist banners at the foot of the Mausoleum.

Meetings of demobilized soldiers at train stations, in villages.