The film is dedicated to the victory of the Soviet people in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945.
Bombing of Western European cities by Nazi aviation. The destroyed and burning city of London. Nazis marching through Paris. The city of Leningrad during the blockade. Defense of Odessa. Construction of defensive barriers on the approaches to Moscow. Anti-aircraft artillery and aviation repel Nazi aircraft raids on Moscow. Parade of Soviet troops on Red Square on November 7, 1941. Soviet troops advance near Moscow. Residents of liberated cities near Moscow greet Soviet soldiers. Battle of Stalingrad. Captured Nazi soldiers and generals. Landing of Allied troops in Africa and Sicily. Combat operations by partisan detachments in Ukraine and Belarus. Soviet aviation, tank units, and artillery in battles near Kursk, Orel, and Belgorod. Troops of the First Ukrainian Front cross the Dnieper and enter Kiev. Landing of Anglo-American troops in Normandy. Liberation of Poland by Soviet troops. Battles for Berlin. Soviet soldiers hoist the Victory Banner over the Reichstag. Signing of the acts of surrender of Germany and Japan. Nuremberg trials of war criminals. Neo-fascist demonstrations in West Germany. Launch of the Polaris missile from a submarine. Anti-war demonstrations in England, Austria, West Germany, and the USA. Speech by N. S. Khrushchev at the United Nations (UN).
Newsreel 1939-1945: People's rejoicing in honor of the end of the Great Patriotic War – Wed, ed.
Victory Parade on Red Square on May 24, 1945. Marshals of the Soviet Union K.A. Meretskov, R.Ya.
Malinovsky, three times Hero of the Soviet Union A.I. Pokryshkin at the parade.
Soviet soldiers throw fallen fascist banners at the foot of the Mausoleum.
Hitler's troops in Europe at the beginning of World War II. Krupp – German magnate, Thyssen – owner of a steel trust, Duisberg – head of the chemical concern "Farbenindustrie", Flick – stockbroker, Pferdemenges – banker, Adenauer – mayor, American magnates Rackefeller, DuPont, Morgan – ed.
Dollars are pouring down.
Krupp shakes Hitler's hand.
German fascists in Austria.
Cartoon: map of the offensive of Hitler's army in Europe.
Newsreel 1939-1945: Czechoslovak women cry.
Nazis in Czechoslovakia.
French Prime Minister Daladier - red.
British Prime Minister Chamberlain - red.
Hitler with his staff.
Signing of the Munich Agreement: Chamberlain, Daladier, Hitler sign.
Daladier speaks to the people in Paris after signing the Munich Agreement.
Chamberlain shows the British the signed agreement.
Hitler at headquarters discusses the plan of attack on Europe.
Cartoon: Hitler's plans for attack on Europe, quotes from Hitler.
Newsreel 1939-1945: Fascist planes fly, tank units and motorized infantry advance in Poland.
Air bombs fly, buildings collapse, explosions on Polish soil.
Cartoon: map showing the Balkan countries captured by Hitler.
Explosions on African soil.
Residents of Paris in gas masks.
French soldiers receive parcels from home, play ball.
Streets of Paris at night.
Dancing in a Parisian cabaret.
Hitler's airborne troops land on French soil.
German planes fly, houses burn.
French peasants flee from burning villages.
Hitler's soldiers walk along the streets of Paris.
Fascist planes in the air, bombing London.
Residents of London wear gas masks.
Houses in London are burning.
Fascist aviation bombs the English navy.
The English expeditionary force is evacuated from Dunkerque.
A military plant in England captured by the Nazis - Poland.
Monument to Frederick Barbarossa in Berlin – kr., general.
Cartoon: map of Hitler's attack on the USSR "Operation Barbarossa".
Newsreel 1941-1945: Clock with a bell on the town hall in Berlin – kr.
Fascist planes fly to the East, bomb Soviet cities.
Fascist planes dive on a Soviet airfield and fire at planes parked in the field.
Fascists commit atrocities in Soviet villages and cities.
Soviet soldiers defend battle lines, blow up German tanks.
Radio loudspeakers on the city streets – kr.
A speaker addresses a crowded rally, calling on the people to defend their homeland.
Workers listen to the speaker – kr.
Wartime propaganda posters.
Volunteers march in formation along the city street.
Mikheyev sees his sons off to the front.
Women and teenagers work in the places of men who have gone to the front.
The inscription on sacks of grain "Defense Fund" - Wed, ed.
Production of shells in a factory workshop.
Houses are burning in populated areas occupied by the Nazis.
Defense of Leningrad: military operations.
Barricades on the streets of Odessa.
Military operations of the Red Navy at sea.
A shot down fascist plane falls.
Monument to Nakhimov in Sevastopol.
A raid by fascist aircraft on Sevastopol.
Sailors join the ranks of the Communist Party, going into battle.
Defensive structures in Moscow in the first year of the war.
A raid by fascist aircraft on Moscow.
Anti-aircraft artillery fires at planes.
A shot down fascist plane falls.
Muscovites dig anti-tank ditches near Moscow, build barbed wire fences.
Troops march through the streets of Moscow.
Newsreel 1941-1945: Hitler's troops advance on Moscow.
Inscription in German "Moscow Road" on a road post.
Germans occupy populated areas.
Corpses of civilians killed by the invaders.
Partisans act against the invaders.
Germans in winter trenches.
Hitler at his headquarters.
Military parade on Red Square on November 7, 1941. Soldiers leave the square for the front. M.I. Kalinin at the front.
Counteroffensive of Soviet troops: Soviet planes fly, artillery fights, tank units and infantry attack.
Soviet attack aircraft in the air.
Germans hide in a trench.
Aerial bombs fly.
Explosions of aerial bombs on the ground.
Cavalry on the offensive.
Soviet soldiers liberate a populated area from the Nazi invaders, take Nazis prisoner.
Soviet soldiers-liberators are greeted by residents of cities and villages.
Traces of atrocities and crimes of the German fascists left in cities and villages.
Tchaikovsky's house in Klin destroyed by the fascists, the destroyed museum of L.N. Tolstoy in Yasnaya Polyana.
Captured Nazis walk across the Borodino field.
Graves of German invaders on Russian soil.
Streets of besieged Leningrad (winter).
Leningraders get water from an ice hole.
Artillery shelling of Leningrad.
Fascist planes fly, bombs fall.
Leningraders make a tank at a factory.
Issuance of a meager ration of bread to Leningraders during the siege of the city.
Meeting of the headquarters of the Leningrad Front.
A panorama of the map of the blockade of Leningrad and the road along Lake Ladoga.
Vehicles with food go along the "road of life" on Lake Ladoga.
Fascist planes are flying – general.
Aerial bombs explode on the "road of life" near trucks with food supplies heading to Leningrad.
Women and children are evacuated from the besieged city of Leningrad by car and by rail along the southern shore of Lake Ladoga.
American tanks and planes are unloaded in one of the Soviet ports to help the Soviet Army.
Boxes of food supplies sent by workers from England.
Ambulances on board a ship. W. Churchill and F. Roosevelt in a car, at a table.
Meeting of the Allied Forces headquarters: they are developing a plan for opening a second front near a map. W. Churchill inspects the formation of Soviet soldiers in the Soviet Union before the opening of the second front.
Hitler at headquarters is developing a plan for a new offensive.
Fascist planes are flying – general., cf.
Hitler's artillery on the march.
Fascist tanks and infantry are moving towards Stalingrad.
Map showing Japan's entry into the war.
Map showing Turkey's entry into the war.
Manufacturing shells for the front at Soviet factories in the rear.
Tank production.
Tank columns built with citizens' donations.
Ferapont Golovaty hands over an airplane built with his personal funds to a pilot.
Airplanes built with the savings of the Maly Theater artists.
Women from villages and towns are preparing warm clothing for the soldiers.
Women donate their jewelry to the defense fund.
Poland's jewelry policy - kr.
Broken German equipment is being melted down in an open-hearth furnace.
Newsreel 1941-1945: A train with military equipment passes through to Stalingrad.
The Germans destroy Stalingrad.
Smoke from a fire over Stalingrad.
Combat operations by Hitler's ground troops near Stalingrad.
A meeting of the Stalingrad Regional Party Committee.
Street fighting in Stalingrad.
Lieutenant General V. I. Chuikov, Major General Rodimtsev, member of the military council of the Stalingrad and Southeastern Fronts N. S. Khrushchev at work at headquarters.
Fighting on the Volga near Stalingrad.
Oil burns at the oil fields in Grozny.
Parade of German troops in Berlin during the Battle of Stalingrad.
Map showing the encirclement of German troops near Stalingrad.
Soviet offensives near Stalingrad: Katyushas fire, planes fly, tanks and infantry advance.
The moment the two fronts meet, encircling the German troops.
The Nazis surrender.
Captured German generals.
Destroyed German equipment on the battlefield – general (from the plane).
Meeting of the headquarters of the Allied forces.
Anglo-American troops are conducting offensive battles in Africa on the territory of Tunisia.
General Eisenhower on the African front.
Aviation bombs Hitler's ground troops, Allied artillery fights.
Explosions on African soil.
Fascist soldiers retreat.
German General Rommel in Africa – kr.
Map of the defeat of German troops in Africa by the Allied forces.
Captured Hitlerite soldiers and officers.
Allied planes over Sicily.
The landing of Allied troops in Sicily.
Sign "To Rome - 57 km".
Training of American army soldiers.
A huge number of idle American military equipment and planes. W. Churchill with a cigar – kr.
Combat operations of Soviet partisans.
Explosions on the railway behind enemy lines.
Partisan detachment in the forest.
Aircraft delivery of ammunition and people to partisan detachments.
Partisans conduct a combat operation near the village of Veska.
Nazis killed by partisans.
Partisans located in the village they occupied undergo combat training and prepare for combat operations.
Partisans of the Kovpak detachment in the forest.
Detachment commander S.A. Kovpak - red.
Partisans join the ranks of the party before leaving for battle.
Newsreel 1941-1945: A female partisan in a detachment at a radio transmitter receives a report from the Soviet information bureau.
A partisan printing house in operation.
The newspaper "Partizanskaya Pravda".
Partisans reading the newspaper.
Presentation of government awards to partisans.
Partisans fighting the Nazis.
Killed fascists.
A line of mobilized Nazi soldiers.
The Nazis take away and drive away captured Soviet citizens and soldiers into slavery in Germany.
A freight train with prisoners leaves for Germany.
An accumulation of Nazi military equipment prepared for an attack on Orel and Kursk.
Tanks are being built at a Soviet plant.
Soviet military plant - general, cf.
Polish People's Republic.
Soviet designers are developing new models of military equipment.
The offensive of Soviet aviation and ground equipment near Kursk: Soviet artillery attacks.
Explosions on the battlefield - kr.
Soviet pilot in the cockpit during combat – kr.
Explosions on the ground (from the plane).
A burning fascist plane.
Destroyed German equipment.
A Nazi sitting on a wrecked tank – kr.
Salute in honor of the liberation of Orel from the fascist invaders.
Residents of Orel greet the liberating soldiers.
Civilians of liberated settlements in dugouts.
Girls get out of a wrecked German plane, which has been converted into housing.
Destroyed Orel (from the plane).
Restoration work in the liberated city.
Tank repair in the rear.
The first tank repaired at STZ – kr.
A mine flooded by the Nazis – kr.
Workers pump water out of the mine with hand pumps.
The first coal cars mined in the restored mine.
Miners applaud.
The first coal train – kr.
Destroyed Dnieper Hydroelectric Power Station – kr.
Restoration of the Dnieper Hydroelectric Station – general, medium, small.
Restored metallurgical plant.
Metallurgist Korobov welds steel.
The offensive of Soviet troops near Kiev.
Forcing the Dnieper.
Burning Kyiv.
Residents of liberated Kyiv meet the liberators, cry, telling about the atrocities of the enemy.
Corpses of tortured victims in Babi Yar.
Destroyed Kyiv – general. (from the plane).
Soldiers hand N.S. Khrushchev the key to Kyiv.
Resistance fighters fight against the Nazis in the enslaved countries of Western Europe: in Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, France.
Cartoon: maps of European countries where partisans are operating.
Newsreel 1941-1945: Churchill smoking a cigar – CR. Soviet bombers flying.
Attack aircraft firing.
Front Commander F.I. Tolbukhin at the command post – CR, CR. Marines attack the enemy near Sevastopol.
A panorama of Sevastopol during the fighting.
Wreckage of fascist planes. F. Roosevelt and W. Churchill talking – CR. Opening of the second front by the Allies: landing of airborne troops and troops from the sea in Normandy on July 6, 1944. Allied forces occupy a bridgehead on the coast and continue the offensive against the Nazi troops.
Battles of the Soviet troops.
Front Commander K.K. Rokossovsky at the command post.
The Dnieper Flotilla and the Coast Guard are fighting.
Map showing the Bobruisk pocket.
The battlefield after Operation Bobruisk Pocket (from an airplane).
Captured Nazis march after the battle in the Bobruisk pocket.
Captured Germans march through Moscow in the summer of 1944. Machines wash the streets after the prisoners have passed.
Residents of liberated Minsk greet the liberating soldiers.
Minsk destroyed by the fascists.
The Germans blow up a factory while retreating.
Lublin railway station – cf.
Residents of Lublin greet Soviet soldiers.
Map of the Soviet offensive in the Iasi-Kishinev direction.
Soviet troops in Norway.
Soviet soldiers with Norwegian resistance fighters liberated in Kirkenes.
Soviet troops fight, destroying defensive lines on the Vistula River.
Crossing the Vistula River.
Burning Warsaw.
Soviet and Polish soldiers march through liberated Warsaw.
Residents of Warsaw greet the liberators.
Destroyed buildings in Warsaw, the destroyed monument to Copernicus, the Chopin House.
Concentration camps in Poland, Auschwitz and Majdanek: a panorama of the camp, crematorium ovens with human bones, camp prisoners.
Soviet soldiers drive through German cities.
Soviet aircraft bomb German communications.
A panorama of the streets of Paris: Allied troops who liberated the city from the Nazis march past.
Allied troops at the Siegfried Line.
Map of military operations at the Siegfried Line.
Streets of Geneva.
Map of the German offensive in the Ardennes.
Offensive operations of Soviet troops on the fronts from the Baltic to the Carpathians.
Front Commander I.D. Chernyakhovsky at the front command post.
Soviet troops on the march.
Conference of the allies of the Soviet Union, the USA and England on February 6, 1945 in the Livadia Palace. I.V. Stalin, Roosevelt, Churchill, I.M. Maisky, A.A. Gromyko and others at the table.
Road sign "Berlin-120 km".
Soviet traffic controller on the road - short.
Soviet cars are driving by.
Road sign "Berlin 80 km, Moscow-1750" - medium.
Soviet troops - tank, artillery, infantry units - are heading towards Berlin along the spring off-road.
Soviet bombers are flying, dropping aerial bombs on the approaches to Berlin – general, cf.
Explosions of aerial bombs on the ground (from an airplane).
Attack of Soviet artillery on the approaches to Berlin.
Berlin during the offensive of Soviet troops (from an airplane).
Fighting in the city – general, cf.
Residents of Berlin stand in a long line for water, women lick barrels of molasses in the street.
Streets of Berlin destroyed in the fighting.
Interrogation of the captured Berlin commandant Weidling.
Street fighting in Berlin.
A Soviet girl gives bread to the Germans.
A soldier helps an old German get out of the ruins.
The Reichstag building – Poland.
Hitler's destroyed chancellery, the Propaganda Ministry.
The charred corpse of Goebbels.
Shelling of the Reichstag.
Hoisting the Victory Banner over the Reichstag.
The Victory Banner over the Reichstag.
Inscriptions made by Soviet soldiers on the columns of the Reichstag.
Soviet troops in Berlin.
Former prisoners of fascist concentration camps greet the Soviet soldiers-liberators.
Residents of Berlin greet Soviet soldiers.
On May 8, 1945, in Berlin, in the presence of representatives of the Soviet and Allied command, former German Field Marshal Keitel signs the act of complete and unconditional surrender.
Combat operations of units of the Soviet Army in the Far East against the Japanese Kwantung Army.
Combat operations of ships of the Pacific Fleet in cooperation with ground forces.
Japanese soldiers surrender.
Signing of the act of surrender of Japan.
Faces of soldiers - Russian, Chinese, American, British, French - etc.
Demobilized soldiers say goodbye to the regimental banner, to their commanders, fellow soldiers.
Return of the demobilized home; their families meet them.
A woman cries, not having waited for her husband to return from the war.
The trial of the main German criminals in Nuremberg.
Goering, Field Marshal Keitel, Jodl, Rosenberg, Ribbentrop, Frank, Schirach, Hess in the dock.
Hess speaks to German youth (synchronously).
Portraits of Hitler's confidants - kr.
Nuremberg Prison - general.
Fascist swastika on a fence - kr, cf.
Newspaper with a portrait of Hitler, advertisements for films about Hitler and Rommel in West Germany.
Newsreel: Members of the Steel Helmet organization are walking.
General Kesselring inspects the line of revanchist soldiers.
Kesselring, the chairman of the revanchist organization, speaks to the soldiers.
A soldier's helmet is placed on a young man.
A fascist banner, fascists with Hitler's orders.
Adenauer speaks.
A Polaris rocket takes off from a submarine off the coast of West Germany.
An atomic cannon, jet aircraft in service with the Bundeswehr.
German troops cross the French border at night with the consent of the French authorities.
The commander of the NATO armed forces, the fascist General Schneidel and other generals in the French army.
Photo: execution of French patriots on Schneidel's orders.
Hitler's General Heusinger, Chief of Staff of NATO Armed Forces - general, cf.
Sit-down strike in Japan, protest demonstrations against American military bases in Japan.
Protest demonstration in Paris, clashes between demonstrators and police.
Protest demonstration in England against American bases for submarines with Polaris missiles.
Demonstration of young people in Austria.
Demonstration of peace activists in West Germany.
Demonstration of ordinary Americans in New York at the UN building. N.S. Khrushchev's speech at the UN with a proposal for general and complete disarmament (synchronously).