Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin addresses the people of the Soviet Union during World War II. Men, women, and children listen to the speakers broadcasting the speech made by Stalin. “This war is not an ordinary war! It is the war of the entire Russian people.” the narrator translates Stalin’s speech. A printing press prints Russian newspapers. Man distributes newspapers. Russian men riding horses. Patriotic Russian men marching into a town to enlist in the war effort. Women plastering Soviet propaganda posters. Women and children trained for military tactics. A short-haired Russian woman tests a rifle. Boys use pickaxes in mining. A woman joins the Soviet Army. A female factory worker works with a lathe. An elderly Russian man harvesting wheat. A locomotive train driving. A woman piloting a ship. Women driving tractors. Women carry large sacks on their backs. Russian soldiers taking a metal bedframe. Farmers raising cattle. Houses, factories, and other infrastructure destroyed by fire and dynamite by Russians themselves. View of the Dniepropetrovsk dam in Ukraine. Russians blow up the Dniepropetrovsk Hydroelectric Station to prevent it from falling to Nazi hands. A woman torches her house. Farmers produce in fields. An old man with rifle watches sky for Nazi bombers. Burning houses and villages due to Soviet scorched earth policies. Guerrilla units trained and they march. Guerrilla soldiers with rifles. Men and women Soviet guerrilla soldiers talking. Soviet men hide in the bush. Guerrilla soldiers push down a telegraph post. A burning train. Guerrilla fighters shoot down German soldier. A burning oil depot. Exploding Nazi installations such as bridges, buildings, and warehouses. Russian guerrilla soldiers fire with machine guns. Animated map depicting Nazi German forces stopping outside Moscow. The Kremlin in Moscow. Fresh reserves of the Soviet Red Army march in Moscow.
Battle of Russia details Russians fighting military invasion from Germany during World War II. A poster motivates Russians to fight as bravely as their ancestors. Bells of a church ring as people pray for victory. Soviet Army front liners briefed. Warplanes, infantry and artillery advance in snowy battlefields to evacuate invading Germans. Guns fire, planes fly, tanks and cavaliers march to push back enemy, in dense snow cover. Russian warplanes strike German bases in Russia. Cavaliers and infantrymen advance to evacuate Germans. Red Army on victory parade through the Russian cities evacuated from Germans. Civilians cheer and greet soldiers. Ruined houses and buildings set fire by Germans.
Battles fought by Soviet Russians fighting military invasion from Germany during World War II. Home of great artists like Tchaikovsky and Leo Tolstoy burnt and destroyed by Nazi Army. Dead bodies of Russian soldiers killed during battle and civilians brutally murdered by Nazis. Civilians view the atrocity victim corpses in piles with hands tied behind and gunshot in head. People weep at the site. Children murdered. Girls rescued from Nazis. Victims of mass hangings and an infant cries near his dead mother. Russians pledge, of revenge. Fierce battle to force them out of Russia. A map shows German retreat. Captured German soldier prisoners of war (POW) walk under guard of Red soldiers. Red Army marches in Leningrad. A wrecked ship in harbor and the beautiful city before German raid. Workers including women and children with shovels dig trenches, transport food supplies to aid their armies fighting on the front.
Battles fought by Russians fighting military invasion from Germany during World War II. Air raid sirens sound and streets of Leningrad. Civilian men, women, and children running for cover in Leningrad as German Luftwaffe bombers raid and blitz Leningrad. Empty streets of Leningrad with idle streetcar trolleys just before German bombing attack. Civilian men and women aircraft spotters track German planes. Russian Anti Aircraft guns follow the course of of the German planes and fire. Aerial bombs away view as bombs dropped by German aircraft and explosions seen at ground level as Soviet buildings are destroyed by bombing. Bombing continues at night. Russian firemen fight fires on burning buildings of Leningrad. Ruins of buildings destroyed by bombing. Rescuers in rubble rescue people and civilians clear rubble. Elephant at Leningrad zoo killed in bombing. Animated map shows Leningrad surrounded by German Army during siege of Leningrad.
Battles fought by Russians fighting military invasion from Germany during World War II. Miserable condition of civilians of Leningrad, the city surrounded by Germans in harsh cold and snow of winter starting in 1941. Lack of food, water, oil and electricity during siege of Leningrad by German forces. German artillery fire heavy projectiles. Workers in munition factories. Soldiers in snowy battlefield alert on their positions. Civilians migrate on ledges through a frozen Lake Ladoga eastwards. Food, medical care, oil and supplies to the city through the lake. German bombers raid the supply lines. Trucks drive at night on road over ice covered lake delivering relief supplies. A railway track built over Lake Ladoga to restore supply. Wounded civilians board the trains returning back across Lake Ladoga. Soviet Russian Army attacks invading Germans. Supply trucks roll over thawing ice of Lake Ladoga in early spring. Children and people during spring as Germans retreat. Civilians on the roads. A stage performance after defeat of German army enjoyed by Russian soldiers aboard a warship. Arrested Nazi soldiers walk under rifle guards of Red Army as Soviet citizens jeer and heckle the German prisoners of war (POW).
Battles fought by Russians fighting military invasion from Germany during World War II. Soviet children and civilians celebrate Christmas of year 1942. Children talk and play. Munition factories of Russia still operating. War production workers at a munitions shell factory. Recapture mission of Stalingrad. Soviet artillery fires projectiles, Russian bombers drop bombs on German bases in Stalingrad. Flame throwers, tanks and rocket guns indulge in intense firing in snowy battlefield. Infantry soldiers advance on a frozen lake. Nazis in Stalingrad encircled and Stalingrad recaptured by the Soviet Army. Soldier loads artillery while overwhelmed civilians meet each other. Surrendered Nazi General prisoners walk under guard of Red Army.