Very interesting the espionage portion of this movie with "Sorge" appearance at the German embassy in Tokyo before Barbarossa invasion. In my opinion, he was one of the main responsible of the Russian victory at the end of the war. Thank you for this beautiful show. Can't hardly wait to watch part 2.
Stalin should have acted on Sorge's warning about Hitler's boys invading, eventually giving the exact date... along with warnings by a lot of others. The man never had a problem with getting millions of "his people" killed. Sorge must have been the slyest spy ever.
agradeceré poder ver esta película histórica subtitulada en español. Admiro y respeto al pueblo soviético que defendió a sus repúblicas con valor, heroísmo y grandes sacrificios y que vencieron al ejército asesino hitleriano. Saludos desde Barcelona en España
I watched the movie when I was in the University around 1988. Still the best war movie I ever watched by 2021. China and USSR started to end their hostility in late 1980s. So the movie was shown in China country wide. However these heroes' fatherland was no more just 3 years later, so shock!
I loved the moment when the young soldier reacted to the tanks coming out of the river, and the Muskovian Girl realizing the Pink Clouds where the asbestos filling of her friends and families houses. Thrilling stuff.
Thank you very much, Mosfilm, for making available to the world these superb movies with excellent image quality and subtitles in english. Please, keep on doing so!
In 1941, Hitler was sober and took the winter and the long, unstable supply chain into consideration, made the Axis armies fell back and fortify instead of push forward. A year later, as if he had been a totally different leader: he complete lost it in frustration caused by his own impatience.
@@internetperson8638 Of course, Barbarossa was built on rubbish reconnaissance and ignored the widening feature of the SU. But at least, he could adopt to the current situation in 41. But lost it later.
Probably the only movie that depicted the massive tank battle of Dubno-Brody,at least briefly.In number of tanks on the rather narrow front,it was even bigger than individual engagements at Kursk.
Request, ... Please upload the film: *Soldiers of Freedom (1977), with ENGLISH subtitle 4 parts (~ 600 minutes) Directed by Yuri Ozerov Thanks for your good quality videos.
It is not the greatest Russian war movie, but it was still good! ….I loved the Moravia planes , and the helicopter at 19:18 in the second episode too! 👍🏻 🍻
Wow, I guess you are not one whose focus is easily distracted by magicians. I didn't notice it watching at the collapsing buildings and the folks around. Nice catch.
@@remy12 hi! There are a lot of Russian war movies! I would call Russia world champion of war movies! I do not like Russian “Hollywood” stile moves! I like the Russian Russian war movies! Start with Liberation sequel ! It is epic super production of 5 movies made fro late 60’s till mid 70’s! It still look good! There are many American, British, German and Italian actors in it , because it shows different angles of the war! Music is insane!
Remember: Yuri Ozerov was ahead of George Lucas, Peter Jackson, and David Yates. And he was ahead of them in that he was the first to film a prequel franchise to his original franchise. And yes, if, that his "Battle of Moscow" is the first prequel to "Liberation". The second was "Stalingrad" (1989). And yes, he also had a spin-off to "Liberation" called "Soldiers of Freedom", which predates the prequels. And I don't know if that spin-off will be translated or not. But you should know about it.
@@robashton8606 In the 1930s, France proposed a mutual assistance pact of France, Britain, and the Soviet Union against an attack by Germany. Britain declined, and the idea was not fulfilled. The Soviets then watched the French and British make an alliance to defend Czechoslovakia, then void it when Hitler wanted Sudetenland. The Soviets felt that Hitler was a monster, but since they could not obtain allies among the Western powers, the least worst alternative was a non-aggression pact with Hitler. Stalin felt that would buy at least two years to upgrade the Soviet armies, while the Germans wore themselves down fighting the British. Cynical and selfish, yes, and the Soviets paid a terrible price for trusting Hitler and stabbing Poland in the back. But it was presumed to be the least worst option, given that the Soviets could obtain no allies in the nations west of Germany.
@@alansewell7810 Not disputing any of that, merely pointing out that the film completely glossed over it. It also tried to show Stalin ordering Red Army units on to high alert after received intelligence when, in fact, the opposite wax true; Stalin ordered all border units to stand down on the eve of the attack so as not to "provoke" the Nazis. They paid dearly for that as well. I haven't reached far enough yet, but I'm willing to bet the film won't show Stalin going into a catatonic funk for a week as the enormity of his balls up becomes clear.
@@robashton8606 I didn't see the date the movie was made. I wonder if it is recent, or from the Cold War era when the Communist Party was more protective of Stalin's wartime legacy. One thing I've noticed in watching Russian movies is that they have very good actors playing the critical roles of Stalin, Zhukov, Rokkosovski, Molotov; and also good acting on the part of Hitler and the German generals. The scripts and the actors are well done and generally true to life, even if important parts of the story are omitted because they are detrimental to Russian / Soviet honor.
@@alansewell7810 I'd say that this series of films, like the Liberation sequence also to be found on this channel, most definitely dates from the height of the cold war. The Party line is followed very closely, and only Nazi troops are showed misbehaving. I agree that many of the actors are remarkable lookalikes (although Rokossovsky and Zhukov look nothing like the actual men) and the set piece battles are impressive in scope and scale. They are enjoyable and, for people who aren't as familiar with the course if events on the Eastern front, informative to watch, provided the viewer is cognisant of the level of pro Soviet bias being employed.
@@Chiefs_fan1595 UK, France had non aggresion pacts with Germany in 1938, let it to easily annex Czechoslovakia, which had great industry(empowering Hitler even more) the country ready to fight if Poland let Czechoslovakia's Soviet allies through its territory to defend Czechoslovakia, which also had great defensive positions, Hitler in the start without all of Europe's industry and manpower, wouldn't be able to take those heavy fortifications defended by Czechoslovakians and Soviets, thus preventing WWII and 50 millions deaths in Europe. Instead, the West let Hitler to take the country for zero price, Poland didn't let Soviets there and even attacked together with Hitler itself, participated in aggression and took part of Czechoslovakia. That's plain idiocy, greed, Churchil called Poland "the hiena of Europe" for such shameful act. Poland paid for that arrogance, stupidity and blind hate for Russians the dearest price of 6 million lives, 25% of Polish population died in 5 years.
@@Chiefs_fan1595 The Russians were one of the last to sign a non aggression pact with Germany. They had also spent the years before the war trying to form an alliance with the western powers to counter Germany but were ignored.
thank you for making material such as this available. I would like to watch it as it is well made, however due the large number of commercials and time to rebuffer after each I won't. I watched 13 minutes of this, jumping to a second video while my satellite connection catches up. I finished the other which was 33 m long with 48000 views. People gotta make money and I refuse to fund RUclips for more money than a Netflix subscription. Thanks again.
Yes. It does. The fighting on the Eastern front made the war in the West look like a mere sideshow, and the sacrifice and horror the Soviet people endured should never be forgotten.
@@pegarange if you read the description this was made in the 1980s Mosfilms was a great movie producer of the SOVIET ERA! ask dead Gorbachov if he can commission some more movies to pleasure you…
ive never seen this but it looks great so far by any chance is there a way to watch or a different version without the russian voice dubbing its annoying
I see a lot of comments about the German-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact and the Soviet invasions of Finland and Poland not being mentioned. I'm not sure what viewers expected from a Soviet film. I grew up in the US being given the false impression that the Western Allies won WW2 in Europe after D-Day. That's how it was sold time and time again. The Red Army's primary role in this victory has been downplayed. Sometimes, it's hard to tell "turth" from "spin". Spin has an element of truth in it. If not for British and US bombing and other military intervention in Africa and later, the Soviets would have faced an even more formidable Wehrmacht, but most objective historians would concede that the outcome of the war in Europe was decided in the East before D-Day. It was decided at the gates of Moscow,, though some view Stalingrad as "the turning point". I'm not sure, in hindsight, that there was a turning point. Germany's eventual defeat might have been virtually inevitable. They achieved or exceeded every objective in the first two or three months of Barbarossa, yet could not "seal the deal" at Moscow or Leningrad. Hitler thought all he had to do was kick the door in, like he had in the Battle of France, and claim victory. Obviously, he underestimated the Soviets.
@@robertsmith2227 Agreed. The Red Army was likely to march all the way to the Atlantic Wall if the Aliies didn't launch the D-Day invasion. Some in the US think Lend Lease "saved" the Soviets. That's a reach. The total cost of Lend Lease to the US was about 50 Billion of which about 40 went to the Uk and 11 went to the USSR. That 11 Billion was just a few percent of Soviet military expenditures during WW2. I think they could have managed without Lend Lease, but the task would have been much more challenging if the British and US didn't keep some of the Wehrmacht busy with bombing and the initiatives in Africa and Italy.. We saw what the Red Army could do in 1945 in Manchuria. They were so effective that the US decided to drop the big ones to keep them from taking over in Korea and in the north islands of Japan.
Hitler underestimated his enemies (US & USSR) and over estimated his allies (Italy & Japan) Wermacht was a one trick pony, relying solely on quick strike victory with weapons they had "on the shelf". Once quick strike failed, as in USSR, it became a war of attrition that Germany was not suited for. could not replace tanks and men faster than the soviets. dumbass. even with a shitty plan going in, he almost made it, except for shitty decisions he made on the way. being led by a corporal.
@@danielkokal8819 No doubt that Germany had to win a quick victory. They could never match the Allies resources and production. As for Hitler, he had both contempt and disdain for his enemies. He actually believed his own "Master Race" rhetoric.
Barbarossa had some success, but it's a mistake to think it went according to plan. In reality, from the very first days, the plans of the Germans and their allies cracked. The defeat of Germany would have been predetermined if the Western Allies really wanted to defeat Germany with all their might. Already in 1942, the superiority of the forces of the anti-Hitler coalition was 3 to 1 compared to the Axis, and it was very easy to end the war already in 1942. But it was beneficial for the Allies to wait until the Nazis and the Soviets killed each other, and at that time to accumulate forces themselves in order to at the moment of the maximum weakening of the Nazis and the Soviets, to spare for themselves all the fruits of the Soviet victory, using the capabilities of their maximum increased military strength, and the impossibility of the exhausted Soviets to win a new war immediately after the end of the previous war, if the Soviets do not agree with the Anglo-American dominance in the post-war world. The only factor why the West did not conclude an alliance with Germany against the USSR before the end of the war was the need for the help of the USSR against Japan. There are lies in the West about the allegedly decisive moral impact of nuclear bombings. This is complete nonsense. Even despite the fact that sooner or later Japan would most likely capitulate to the United States, but this would require the United States too much time, human and material losses. The entry of the USSR into the war became a factor that the United States needed. And also the liquidation of the Comintern. This is the only reason why a separate peace and an alliance with any fascist government in Germany after the liquidation of Hitler (the liquidation of Hitler was necessary for the public opinion of the West, the fascist system itself suited the West perfectly) were not put into practice, despite the Crossword and Sunrise operations. The thing is that the USSR had to defeat not only Germany, but also Japan.
Я русский мне 33 и я думаю очень большая заслуга победы это Сталин и его режим люди были закаленые как сталь но и конечно потриатизм людей и сила духа все или нечего
Because there were no right-hand drive cars in Vietnam. Yes, Japan was filmed in Vietnam. And yes, it's strange you ask a question about this, considering that in this movie Tigers in 1941.
A lot of people are commenting on the fact that the movie doesn't mention the pact made between Hitler and Stalin (well not by name - Pavlov mentioned it at about 26 minutes into the movie - "They signed a non-agression pact with us"). Well, given the fact that it's a Russian movie and was made in 1985, that's not really all that surprising, when you think about it. I mean, when you look at classics like "The Great Escape" and "Objective: Burma!" which were both made by the USA (of which I am a proud citizen, so spare me any BS about hating the country) and both of which GREATLY inflated the role of US soldiers in the respective stories, it really shouldn't be a surprise that the USSR at the time wasn't going to make a movie that started by saying "Oh yeah, those bastards betrayed the Czech people but you know, we were cool for signing a non-aggression pact with Hitler becuase we didn't plan on him stabbing us in the back." Look how long the myth of the widespread French "resistance" has persisted, even to the banning of "The Sorrow and the PIty" for many years because it 'destroyed myths the French people still need." It's very probably part and parcel of movies made in every country to gloss over unpleasant things and make your people look like stalwart heroes - and probably always has been, when you think about it.
LOL I didnt know that if you are American you cannot be told any criticism of the US, weird, because Americans love love love to shit all the time on Russia, China, Iran, France, etc, etc, you only like Anglos and Scandinavians (HItler would have liked that). For all its limitations this movie portrays a lot of Soviet mistakes, when you watch an American movie about Pearl Harbor, there is 0 self-criticism, they paint themselves as chilling on the beach and those bad bad Japanese came over with a total surprise but 20 min later the Americans started to beat them, because America fuck yeah
Actually, Germany was, de facto, beaten by the Battle of Moscow 1942, in the sence that losses were higher than could be deplenished. Germany did advance as far as Stalingrad that year, but was given a bloody nose. Final nail in the coffin was the Battle of Kursk summer 1943. This was just before the British and US forces set foot on European soil. Germany was never able to launch any greater offensive on the Eastern Front after that..... The most important US contribution, was "Lend and Lease". D-Day was helpful, but the Soviets would most probably have liberated Europe by itself, though it would have taken longer.....
It was not a pact. It was a non-aggression pact. Stalin wanted to buy time because he knew the Red Army was not prepared in terms of materiel, organization, etc. He knew the war was coming, so he wanted to push the war to ATLEAST 1942, but according to him, the ideal time would be 1943, and that is when they would achieve equilibrium with the German Army and be able to smash them. He was proven correct, because by 1943, the Red Army was extremely powerful and launched successful operations, and the military industrial base was strong.
@@Lassisvulgaris Very true, Stalin said in retrospect they would have won without Lend Lease, it would have just taken longer. A German general (I forget who) was asked in the Nuremburg trials "At what point did you know the war was lost?" He replied with one word. "Moscow". The German army was already defeated in 1941-1942.
It is a very accurate portrayal of the openeng of the Eastern Front, exept for one colossal mistake. Otto Skorzeny is portrayed here as the leader of the Brandenburger battalion and planner of the commando actions to start the attack on june 1941. On that date, Scorzeny was just a simple infantry lieutenant with the Wienner troops and had no part on planning or any commando action. Otto Skorzeny's first appointment came on 1943, and his first action was the liberation of the Duce, Mussolini, from his prison on the Gran Sasso mountain in Italy. Then he went on to form and lead the commando battalion on Friedenthal, formed mainly by fallschimjëger troops. Second lieutenant Skorzeny started the war against the USSR as a lowly platoon commander in the year 1941. Soon he distinguished himself, and climbed up the ladder. He became capitain in 1943, major in 1944 and was promoted to Colonel when he was assigned to defend the Oder at the end of the war. You can check that on multiple sources. Putting that aside, the film is absolutely amazing! Great film making of the old Soviet Union. I enjoyed it enormously. Thank you!
Obviously this was a cold war movie, but the fact they completely omitted the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact, and the repeated warnings from British Intelligence of the Nazi attack is quite telling.
If not to mention Soviet occupation of Poland and the Baltic states. The winter war was also omitted, though Soviet heavy losses convinced Hitler that the Red Army was no match....
Can someone please explain to me why do Russiana pronounce letter H in foreign names as G, for example Hitler, Halder, Holland, Herzegovina etc. as Gitler, Galder, Gerzegovina, Golandiya etc? It's not like the letter H and sound H in particular is not present in the Russian language.
Западным комментаторам которые вспоминают пакт Молотова Риббентропа хочу напомнить что та территория на которую вступила красная армия никогда не была Польшей. На этой территории всегда жили православные белорусы и украинцы . В средние века страна называлась великое княжество литовское. Католическая Польша находится западнее
USSR was a slow warm-up country in WWII, it's autocratic and bureaucratic made its operations less efficient than it's supposed to be, let alone the Great Purge before WWII that killed thousands of capable officers in Red Army and made its military force ruled by political commissar rather than experienced officers. Fortunately, Starlin found Zhukov, the "Firemaster" of High Command who leveraged his command ability that won a landslide victory over Japanese aggression in Mongolia, which deterred Japanese army from massive aggression to USSR badly needed by Nazi Germany. It's hard to say Zhukov saved USSR, it's fair to say this man contributed significantly to the victory of WWII.
Germany lost against Britain though when they tried to invade, the battle of Britain gave Russia time to prepare for Germany and we supplied them. Just thought I'd correct that reading at the start of the movie. Operation sealion would of been the end for us had they succeeded and Russia would fall because of it. Russia though were the main reason for Germany's defeat by far imo so we owe much to Russia 🙏
I dont wish to be rude, but where is the admission that the Russians attacked Poland from the other side with an agreement with Germany. This seems to be missing from the introduction. interesting.
UK, France had non aggresion pacts with Germany in 1938, let it to easily annex Czechoslovakia, which had great industry(empowering Hitler even more) the country ready to fight if Poland let Czechoslovakia's Soviet allies through its territory to defend Czechoslovakia, which also had great defensive positions, Hitler in the start without all of Europe's industry and manpower, wouldn't be able to take those heavy fortifications defended by Czechoslovakians and Soviets, thus preventing WWII and 50 millions deaths in Europe. Instead, the West let Hitler to take the country for zero price, Poland didn't let Soviets there and even attacked together with Hitler itself, participated in aggression and took part of Czechoslovakia. That's plain idiocy, greed, Churchil called Poland "the hiena of Europe" for such shameful act. Poland paid for that arrogance, stupidity and blind hate for Russians the dearest price of 6 million lives, 25% of Polish population died in 5 years.
In the introduction they skip the bit about the Nazi -Soviet pact to jointly invade Poland,thus giving the Nazis the freedom to invade Wesstern Europe.
Britain, France had non aggresion pacts with Germany in 1938, let it to easily annex Czechoslovakia, which had great industry(empowering Hitler even more) the country ready to fight if Poland let Czechoslovakia's Soviet allies through its territory to defend Czechoslovakia, which also had great defensive positions, Hitler in the start without all of Europe's industry and manpower, wouldn't be able to take those heavy fortifications defended by Czechoslovakians and Soviets, thus preventing WWII and 50 millions deaths in Europe. Instead, the West let Hitler to take the country for zero price, Poland didn't let Soviets there and even attacked together with Hitler itself, participated in aggression and took part of Czechoslovakia. That's plain idiocy, greed, Churchil called Poland "the hiena of Europe" for such shameful act. Poland paid for that arrogance, stupidity and blind hate for Russians the dearest price of 6 million lives, 25% of Polish population died in 5 years.
Too bad they did not mention that Pavlov went to get executed along with about eight other high-ranking officers. Still, an entertaining film which gives one an idea of what it was like. Yes, a bit of propaganda, but it is worth watching.
Well,they did reintroduce Pavlov's case in later "War on the western direction" from 1990,with quite a gruesome details concerning his torture by Beria.
in general terms i like this sort of film (and i will watch part 2). the twin engine aircraft with double tailfin? never seen one. anyone know what it was supposed to be? looked more like a beechcraft lol. and all the tanks passing each other... sheesh. perfect opportunity to shoot from the sides. etc. etc. etc. Star Media Russian war moves are far better
Chamberlain bought us time to build enough Spitfires to destroy one third of the Luftwaffe in the battle of Britain. He took it on the chest, history has much maligned him subsequently.
Today it is a complet different narrative about WW2... East & West... Two opposite sides two different stories... Lessons to be learned... Human memory is short... Unfortunatelly...
What they've forgotten to mention in the open sequence is, russia Also invaded poland. 16 days after the germans attacked, they (russia) without a declaration of war Stabbed poland in the back, while they (the poles) were fighting for their very existence 😡
At the time, the government of Poland could bot be located. Through no channels could anyone speak to Polish leadership. It was later found out that much of the government along with the president of Poland, had fled to Romania. President Moscicki, being the only president of Poland, and also interned in Romania, left Poland without leadership. He could not hand down any orders, any political action while in Romania. In effect - Both legally by international law, and literally, by the conditions existing in Poland, Poland was no longer a state. It had no government. President and his government had made their way into Romania as early as September 15th, where they were interned. In International law, if a government is interned in another country, it can take no political action. It can not function as a government. (Romania was neutral in the war, so to have the Polish government in their borders handing down orders to the Polish army fighting the Germans would have made them no longer neutral.) On September 17th, the Red Army entered Poland. That day Supreme Commander of the Polish military Smigly gave an order to all Polish troops. "The Soviets have invaded. My orders are to carry out the retirement into Romania and Hungary by the shortest roots. Do not engage the Soviets in military actions, only in the event of disarming our units by them. ... Units whose position the soviets have approached should negotiate with them with the aim of the exit of the garrison into Romania or Hungary." A state of war did not exist between the Poland and the USSR in 1939. To fire on the Soviets was illegal, and insubordination. On September 18th the soviets told the united states that the intention of their military action was to "protect minorities in the areas of Poland where there is no government." By September 24th, no action had been taken by any Polish-allied state to declare the USSR hostile to Poland, and their neutrality in the conflict was at that time recognized universally. Only by September 30th had the first stirrings of a Polish government in exile under General Sikorski begun in France. Poland was without a government for atleast 15 days, and had the soviets not secured the area, the Germans surely would have.
The German tanks at that time were lighter I think. Not the same turret, not the same canon. It's the kind of details that would not cost a lot to pay attention to. I had also read that Stalin had completely rejected the informations on the attack and suffered a nervous breakdown. --- I do not know which version is true, but both can't be right.
About 1,000 T-34s were present in the western districts of Soviet Union in June of 1941,and about 700 at various stages of manufacture when the war broke out.Most have broken down on the march,with few here and there making a valiant fight.
@@Marlene-ou5ol Yes I had read that Stalin was shocked by the attack and I also heard that the British gave the soviets the date of the attack but Stalin said not to trust the British and so ignored the warning.
Mmmm. Politicians. Well - I have some shocking news for u Mr Zig Zog. Politicians are people - just exactly like u and me. Sometimes they lie. Sometimes they drink and drive. Sometimes they have sex with someone they shouldn't. Sometimes they fiddle their taxes. Yep - they are just like you and me. It's gross hypocracy to demand that politicians must, once elected, somehow become better than the rest of us. Mr ZigZog ... if u can do a better job than politicians, all u have to do is get yourself elected, and we can all stand back and watch you transform the world. Or maybe not ...
@@toytoy1091 What an interesting specimen! Let us have a dissection. First up, and a red flag, is your attempt to ascribe values to someone else that you do not know. We could leave it here because of the logic that you do no know me and cannot say (you can think it as every Untermensch has the right) what someone else's values are. Not a good start. Second, the deliberate misspelling of my name is infantile. Really, is that your best shot? I acknowledge if there is a wit in it then maybe you can let it go - for example referring to Donald Trump as Rump because of his unfortunate physical characteristic. But here?? Third, this concept of becoming a politician is a non-sequitur. To explain it terms that you might grasp: Imagine I (or you, or anyone for that matter) do not like cornflakes. We have our reasons (carbs, processing, seed oils). So we express our doubts. It is not coherent to expect a critic to change professions to 'solve the world' from cornflakes. I suspect you will be a little slow (or unwilling) to grasp the inanity of this idea. Let us have another example: You do not like the play of a footballer - it is plain daft to expect the critic to replace that footballer. Flies do need to be swatted.
@@zogzog1063 Mr Zig Zog, I understand your concerns. But what if you're a famous footballer, and flies land on your cornflakes? Should you expect politicans to remove the flies, or ban footballers from eating cornflakes ?
Да, так же как и т34-85, ис, ис-2 и т.д. Если быть чересчур беспристрастным к подобным эпизодам этого фильма, то тут так же не показано как Гитлер спит, просыпается, ходит в туалет, умываться...
then how about uk and france which signed treaty in 1938 handing over land in czechoslovakia to germany? not to mention poland and hungry also getting land from czechoslovakia at the same time. also land poland lost 1939 to ussr was and isn't polish land, but poland occupied it after ww1. almost all of it is now in belorus and ukraine.
At the time, the government of Poland could bot be located. Through no channels could anyone speak to Polish leadership. It was later found out that much of the government along with the president of Poland, had fled to Romania. President Moscicki, being the only president of Poland, and also interned in Romania, left Poland without leadership. He could not hand down any orders, any political action while in Romania. In effect - Both legally by international law, and literally, by the conditions existing in Poland, Poland was no longer a state. It had no government. President and his government had made their way into Romania as early as September 15th, where they were interned. In International law, if a government is interned in another country, it can take no political action. It can not function as a government. (Romania was neutral in the war, so to have the Polish government in their borders handing down orders to the Polish army fighting the Germans would have made them no longer neutral.) On September 17th, the Red Army entered Poland. That day Supreme Commander of the Polish military Smigly gave an order to all Polish troops. "The Soviets have invaded. My orders are to carry out the retirement into Romania and Hungary by the shortest roots. Do not engage the Soviets in military actions, only in the event of disarming our units by them. ... Units whose position the soviets have approached should negotiate with them with the aim of the exit of the garrison into Romania or Hungary." A state of war did not exist between the Poland and the USSR in 1939. To fire on the Soviets was illegal, and insubordination. On September 18th the soviets told the united states that the intention of their military action was to "protect minorities in the areas of Poland where there is no government." By September 24th, no action had been taken by any Polish-allied state to declare the USSR hostile to Poland, and their neutrality in the conflict was at that time recognized universally. Only by September 30th had the first stirrings of a Polish government in exile under General Sikorski begun in France. Poland was without a government for atleast 15 days, and had the soviets not secured the area, the Germans surely would have.
Территория на которую вступило СССР никогда не было Польшей это територии западной Украины и белоруси захваченные Польшей в результате советско польской войны 1920 года . На этих территориях всегда проживали белорусы и украинцы . В средние века эта территория называлось великое княжество литовское. Польша находится западнее
Interesting to see that even in 1985, while Gorbachev was already opening the door, the official Soviet history telling was still so that Poland was attacked by Germany alone in 1939.
Gosh! Be careful! I posted something similar about a week ago and I've been constantly bombarded with indignant (not to mention peculiarly divorced from reality) missives from some weird Stalin fanboy. Anything that disparages Stalin or the Soviet Union is "fascist lies", or "Western propaganda". The kid's a real fruit loop. Pray he doesn't see your comment!😂😂😂
@@robashton8606 I'm not surprised. He may have been a flippant kid but a serious agent as well. What Putin is doing now is a direct continuation of the pre-Khrushchev propaganda in which everything that the Soviet Motherland did was clean, peaceful, humane and perfect in all point of views. He invests a lot in this propaganda -- basically that's around all what he can and want to offer to Russia and to the still gravitating ones of the ex-Soviet countries: a triumphant past. And he wants to polish it from all bloody stains just like his predecessors did. He learned a lot as a member of the department of active measures within KGB and he's using all professionally.
@@saulomagalhaes7431 The killer half-truth that all dirty regimes use. They really liberated Poland from the Germans... after invading it together with them, after liquidating the officers and upper middle class in the area they occupied and after intentionally waiting for the uprising to be choked in blood without outer help or supply - in order to have even more of the ones ready to act eliminated.
@@lxathu yes that's true... I was also referring more to the earlier invasion when there was still a non-aggression pact with Germany (when btw Britain didn't do anything about it)
@@ascott6328 well better Than Hitler who always had bipolar attack,also Stalin were close to Gen Zhukov, not like Hitler who has nobody except maybe Eva'
@@walterweiss7124 attempting to secure peace, just 20 years after unspeakable bloodbath, is wrong? Only night makes right? Oh well, the red flag flew over Berlin.
1.st part, 1'30... And the Soviet Union invaded the other part of Poland. Somehow the commentator doesn't mention this fact. As in the old long times. See Patjomkin: History of Diplomacy... and so on.
As a Hungarian you should be deeply ashamed about the roles fascist Hungary, dictatorship Poland and Germany played in shameful destruction of Czechoslovakia.
Very interesting the espionage portion of this movie with "Sorge" appearance at the German embassy in Tokyo before Barbarossa invasion. In my opinion, he was one of the main responsible of the Russian victory at the end of the war. Thank you for this beautiful show. Can't hardly wait to watch part 2.
Stalin should have acted on Sorge's warning about Hitler's boys invading, eventually giving the exact date... along with warnings by a lot of others. The man never had a problem with getting millions of "his people" killed. Sorge must have been the slyest spy ever.
Шедевр, Советского КИНО !
It's a Masterpiece 📽️🎬🎞️🎥 . 📽️🎬🎞️🎥. 👏👏👏☝️☝️🎭⭐🎭⭐🎭⭐🎭⭐👍💯🔥💥🔥💥🔥💥🔥💥👍💯. Amazing Film Movie Masterpiece 📽️🎬🎞️🎥. !!!
One of the best movies that i saw of Mosfilm i love it
agradeceré poder ver esta película histórica subtitulada en español. Admiro y respeto al pueblo soviético que defendió a sus repúblicas con valor, heroísmo y grandes sacrificios y que vencieron al ejército asesino hitleriano. Saludos desde Barcelona en España
yes
Hola from Russia❤
Bueno, bueno... los aliados no fueron mejores, 3 millones de bengalíes asesinados por los piratas, por ejemplo...
Thank You for this excellent movie! Please give us more.
Большое спасибо , Карену Георгиевичу Шахназарову за развитие этого ютюб канала. Теперь есть , что смотреть !!!!!!!
We can see how history repeats itself
Thanks for your English subtitled
I watched the movie when I was in the University around 1988. Still the best war movie I ever watched by 2021. China and USSR started to end their hostility in late 1980s. So the movie was shown in China country wide. However these heroes' fatherland was no more just 3 years later, so shock!
@missions Are you being sarcastic? Why?
Watch Come and See. Its on this youtube channel. Greatest war film ever made, generally agreed with by anybody with a brain
Cina-numero uno
I loved the moment when the young soldier reacted to the tanks coming out of the river, and the Muskovian Girl realizing the Pink Clouds where the asbestos filling of her friends and families houses. Thrilling stuff.
Świetny film! dziękuję!
Да, мой польский брат. Именно так! ✊
Great movie!
Very intresting and inspiring courageous movie
Thank you very much, Mosfilm, for making available to the world these superb movies with excellent image quality and subtitles in english. Please, keep on doing so!
Damn, what a great heroes of soviet Union
Thank you for posting these films.
Good stuff!
I always have admired how the Soviets stopped the NAZIs just short of Moscow.
In 1941, Hitler was sober and took the winter and the long, unstable supply chain into consideration, made the Axis armies fell back and fortify instead of push forward.
A year later, as if he had been a totally different leader: he complete lost it in frustration caused by his own impatience.
@@lxathu No, don't act like he made wise decisions in 1941. They greatly miscalculated the winter, supply, Soviet resistance, etc.
@@internetperson8638 Of course, Barbarossa was built on rubbish reconnaissance and ignored the widening feature of the SU.
But at least, he could adopt to the current situation in 41. But lost it later.
@@lxathu He could because of the momentum and the fact that it took the soviets a bit to reorganize.
Just like the Ukrainians have stopped the Russians short of Kyiv a month ago
BT, T-34/76, KV-1(turret), wow, they got lots of those real stuff. Bravo.
Probably the only movie that depicted the massive tank battle of Dubno-Brody,at least briefly.In number of tanks on the rather narrow front,it was even bigger than individual engagements at Kursk.
Request, ... Please upload the film:
*Soldiers of Freedom (1977), with ENGLISH subtitle
4 parts (~ 600 minutes)
Directed by Yuri Ozerov
Thanks for your good quality videos.
43:32 I've rarely seen such effects of bombing! Must be devastating!! 🙁😟🥺
It is not the greatest Russian war movie, but it was still good!
….I loved the Moravia planes , and the helicopter at 19:18 in the second episode too!
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Wow, I guess you are not one whose focus is easily distracted by magicians.
I didn't notice it watching at the collapsing buildings and the folks around.
Nice catch.
What's the best Russian War movie? I enjoy them is why I'm asking, would like some recommendations.
@@remy12 hi!
There are a lot of Russian war movies!
I would call Russia world champion of war movies!
I do not like Russian “Hollywood” stile moves! I like the Russian Russian war movies!
Start with Liberation sequel ! It is epic super production of 5 movies made fro late 60’s till mid 70’s! It still look good! There are many American, British, German and Italian actors in it , because it shows different angles of the war! Music is insane!
@@remy12
Some more:
“The Brest fortress” and “Panfilov’s 28”!
“Battle of Sevastopol” and “Stalingrad”!
@@steveiliev8912 Thanks! I will check those out for sure!
Many thanks to Karen Georgievich Shakhnazarov for the development of this youtube channel. Now there is thing to watch!!!
Remember: Yuri Ozerov was ahead of George Lucas, Peter Jackson, and David Yates. And he was ahead of them in that he was the first to film a prequel franchise to his original franchise. And yes, if, that his "Battle of Moscow" is the first prequel to "Liberation". The second was "Stalingrad" (1989). And yes, he also had a spin-off to "Liberation" called "Soldiers of Freedom", which predates the prequels. And I don't know if that spin-off will be translated or not. But you should know about it.
Love seeing all the T 34s and the KV1 made from a 1950s Stalin tank. Great stuff. 👍
Russian people are honest, truthful and practical and their films reflects this
❤️ from India
Not honest enough to mention the non aggression pact that the Nazis and Soviets signed though. You know, the one where they carved Poland up?
@@robashton8606 In the 1930s, France proposed a mutual assistance pact of France, Britain, and the Soviet Union against an attack by Germany. Britain declined, and the idea was not fulfilled. The Soviets then watched the French and British make an alliance to defend Czechoslovakia, then void it when Hitler wanted Sudetenland. The Soviets felt that Hitler was a monster, but since they could not obtain allies among the Western powers, the least worst alternative was a non-aggression pact with Hitler. Stalin felt that would buy at least two years to upgrade the Soviet armies, while the Germans wore themselves down fighting the British. Cynical and selfish, yes, and the Soviets paid a terrible price for trusting Hitler and stabbing Poland in the back. But it was presumed to be the least worst option, given that the Soviets could obtain no allies in the nations west of Germany.
@@alansewell7810 Not disputing any of that, merely pointing out that the film completely glossed over it. It also tried to show Stalin ordering Red Army units on to high alert after received intelligence when, in fact, the opposite wax true; Stalin ordered all border units to stand down on the eve of the attack so as not to "provoke" the Nazis. They paid dearly for that as well. I haven't reached far enough yet, but I'm willing to bet the film won't show Stalin going into a catatonic funk for a week as the enormity of his balls up becomes clear.
@@robashton8606 I didn't see the date the movie was made. I wonder if it is recent, or from the Cold War era when the Communist Party was more protective of Stalin's wartime legacy. One thing I've noticed in watching Russian movies is that they have very good actors playing the critical roles of Stalin, Zhukov, Rokkosovski, Molotov; and also good acting on the part of Hitler and the German generals. The scripts and the actors are well done and generally true to life, even if important parts of the story are omitted because they are detrimental to Russian / Soviet honor.
@@alansewell7810 I'd say that this series of films, like the Liberation sequence also to be found on this channel, most definitely dates from the height of the cold war. The Party line is followed very closely, and only Nazi troops are showed misbehaving.
I agree that many of the actors are remarkable lookalikes (although Rokossovsky and Zhukov look nothing like the actual men) and the set piece battles are impressive in scope and scale. They are enjoyable and, for people who aren't as familiar with the course if events on the Eastern front, informative to watch, provided the viewer is cognisant of the level of pro Soviet bias being employed.
You should watch brest fortress
Beautiful movie🥺
Courageous side show!
Spasibo...
Good movie 😍
I like how the film doesn’t glorify Stalin and the soviet leadership, showing the mistakes they made despite being mostly competent
I mean it was definitely a choice to leave out the non aggression pact they signed with Germany before they both invaded Poland lol.
@@Chiefs_fan1595 UK, France had non aggresion pacts with Germany in 1938, let it to easily annex Czechoslovakia, which had great industry(empowering Hitler even more) the country ready to fight if Poland let Czechoslovakia's Soviet allies through its territory to defend Czechoslovakia, which also had great defensive positions, Hitler in the start without all of Europe's industry and manpower, wouldn't be able to take those heavy fortifications defended by Czechoslovakians and Soviets, thus preventing WWII and 50 millions deaths in Europe.
Instead, the West let Hitler to take the country for zero price, Poland didn't let Soviets there and even attacked together with Hitler itself, participated in aggression and took part of Czechoslovakia. That's plain idiocy, greed, Churchil called Poland "the hiena of Europe" for such shameful act.
Poland paid for that arrogance, stupidity and blind hate for Russians the dearest price of 6 million lives, 25% of Polish population died in 5 years.
@@Chiefs_fan1595 The Russians were one of the last to sign a non aggression pact with Germany. They had also spent the years before the war trying to form an alliance with the western powers to counter Germany but were ignored.
@@Chiefs_fan1595 most of the allies signed non aggression pacts with germany including poland
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Awesome!
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That actor really, but really looks like Voroshilov. Spitting image.
The world owes a great deal to Russia.
...and what exactly would that be...?
@@pawelsawicki1750 The end of Hitlerism.
Yes. It does. The fighting on the Eastern front made the war in the West look like a mere sideshow, and the sacrifice and horror the Soviet people endured should never be forgotten.
Considering what happened in 2016 I’m gonna say Nah
For WHAT?? Spreading communism worldwide? We defeated the wrong enemy
Por favor legenda português ou espanhol 👍
Outstanding! Could you also do a film on the nazi war crimes in ukraine and poland??
He doesnt make this films, he publishes russian films with english subtitles
@@pegarange if you read the description this was made in the 1980s Mosfilms was a great movie producer of the SOVIET ERA!
ask dead Gorbachov if he can commission some more movies to pleasure you…
Посмотри кино помни имя свое
Subtitulada por favor, gracias
Why 2 parts? It's not really that long in total. 2h 46m in total.
ive never seen this but it looks great so far by any chance is there a way to watch or a different version without the russian voice dubbing its annoying
Por favor legenda português ou espanhol
I see a lot of comments about the German-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact and the Soviet invasions of Finland and Poland not being mentioned. I'm not sure what viewers expected from a Soviet film.
I grew up in the US being given the false impression that the Western Allies won WW2 in Europe after D-Day. That's how it was sold time and time again. The Red Army's primary role in this victory has been downplayed. Sometimes, it's hard to tell "turth" from "spin". Spin has an element of truth in it. If not for British and US bombing and other military intervention in Africa and later, the Soviets would have faced an even more formidable Wehrmacht, but most objective historians would concede that the outcome of the war in Europe was decided in the East before D-Day. It was decided at the gates of Moscow,, though some view Stalingrad as "the turning point". I'm not sure, in hindsight, that there was a turning point. Germany's eventual defeat might have been virtually inevitable. They achieved or exceeded every objective in the first two or three months of Barbarossa, yet could not "seal the deal" at Moscow or Leningrad. Hitler thought all he had to do was kick the door in, like he had in the Battle of France, and claim victory. Obviously, he underestimated the Soviets.
@@robertsmith2227 Agreed. The Red Army was likely to march all the way to the Atlantic Wall if the Aliies didn't launch the D-Day invasion. Some in the US think Lend Lease "saved" the Soviets. That's a reach. The total cost of Lend Lease to the US was about 50 Billion of which about 40 went to the Uk and 11 went to the USSR. That 11 Billion was just a few percent of Soviet military expenditures during WW2. I think they could have managed without Lend Lease, but the task would have been much more challenging if the British and US didn't keep some of the Wehrmacht busy with bombing and the initiatives in Africa and Italy..
We saw what the Red Army could do in 1945 in Manchuria. They were so effective that the US decided to drop the big ones to keep them from taking over in Korea and in the north islands of Japan.
Hitler underestimated his enemies (US & USSR) and over estimated his allies (Italy & Japan)
Wermacht was a one trick pony, relying solely on quick strike victory with weapons they
had "on the shelf". Once quick strike failed, as in USSR, it became a war of attrition that Germany
was not suited for. could not replace tanks and men faster than the soviets. dumbass.
even with a shitty plan going in, he almost made it, except for shitty decisions he made on the
way. being led by a corporal.
@@danielkokal8819 No doubt that Germany had to win a quick victory. They could never match the Allies resources and production. As for Hitler, he had both contempt and disdain for his enemies. He actually believed his own "Master Race" rhetoric.
Hitler need diesel fuel. And lots of it. Then maybe the war would have been different
Barbarossa had some success, but it's a mistake to think it went according to plan. In reality, from the very first days, the plans of the Germans and their allies cracked. The defeat of Germany would have been predetermined if the Western Allies really wanted to defeat Germany with all their might. Already in 1942, the superiority of the forces of the anti-Hitler coalition was 3 to 1 compared to the Axis, and it was very easy to end the war already in 1942. But it was beneficial for the Allies to wait until the Nazis and the Soviets killed each other, and at that time to accumulate forces themselves in order to at the moment of the maximum weakening of the Nazis and the Soviets, to spare for themselves all the fruits of the Soviet victory, using the capabilities of their maximum increased military strength, and the impossibility of the exhausted Soviets to win a new war immediately after the end of the previous war, if the Soviets do not agree with the Anglo-American dominance in the post-war world. The only factor why the West did not conclude an alliance with Germany against the USSR before the end of the war was the need for the help of the USSR against Japan. There are lies in the West about the allegedly decisive moral impact of nuclear bombings. This is complete nonsense. Even despite the fact that sooner or later Japan would most likely capitulate to the United States, but this would require the United States too much time, human and material losses. The entry of the USSR into the war became a factor that the United States needed. And also the liquidation of the Comintern. This is the only reason why a separate peace and an alliance with any fascist government in Germany after the liquidation of Hitler (the liquidation of Hitler was necessary for the public opinion of the West, the fascist system itself suited the West perfectly) were not put into practice, despite the Crossword and Sunrise operations. The thing is that the USSR had to defeat not only Germany, but also Japan.
Wow! I'm surprised by the good quality of the action sequences.
Я русский мне 33 и я думаю очень большая заслуга победы это Сталин и его режим люди были закаленые как сталь но и конечно потриатизм людей и сила духа все или нечего
14:15 is it really Chuikov, or the translation is wrong and he said Zhukov?
Yes mistake
What is the (Germany) music played at the beginning between 2:00 and 2:40?
are the planes at 44:33 supposed to be Hs 129s?
Interesting moive however, overwhelming amount of inaccuracies.
I want russian movie 🎥
No subtitle to Indonesia 🤔🤔
23:09 How did the film director make a basic mistake driving on the right in Japan?
Because there were no right-hand drive cars in Vietnam. Yes, Japan was filmed in Vietnam. And yes, it's strange you ask a question about this, considering that in this movie Tigers in 1941.
Por favor, subtitulada.
DOSE IT MATTER WHERE IT WAS MADE 🙌
No.
🇷🇺露西亜軍、素晴らしい✨
Dont look too good now lol
ES UNA LÁSTIMA QUE ESTE DOCUMENTAL TAN INTERESANTE NO ESTE SUBTITULADO EN ESPAÑOL
A lot of people are commenting on the fact that the movie doesn't mention the pact made between Hitler and Stalin (well not by name - Pavlov mentioned it at about 26 minutes into the movie - "They signed a non-agression pact with us"). Well, given the fact that it's a Russian movie and was made in 1985, that's not really all that surprising, when you think about it. I mean, when you look at classics like "The Great Escape" and "Objective: Burma!" which were both made by the USA (of which I am a proud citizen, so spare me any BS about hating the country) and both of which GREATLY inflated the role of US soldiers in the respective stories, it really shouldn't be a surprise that the USSR at the time wasn't going to make a movie that started by saying "Oh yeah, those bastards betrayed the Czech people but you know, we were cool for signing a non-aggression pact with Hitler becuase we didn't plan on him stabbing us in the back." Look how long the myth of the widespread French "resistance" has persisted, even to the banning of "The Sorrow and the PIty" for many years because it 'destroyed myths the French people still need." It's very probably part and parcel of movies made in every country to gloss over unpleasant things and make your people look like stalwart heroes - and probably always has been, when you think about it.
LOL I didnt know that if you are American you cannot be told any criticism of the US, weird, because Americans love love love to shit all the time on Russia, China, Iran, France, etc, etc, you only like Anglos and Scandinavians (HItler would have liked that). For all its limitations this movie portrays a lot of Soviet mistakes, when you watch an American movie about Pearl Harbor, there is 0 self-criticism, they paint themselves as chilling on the beach and those bad bad Japanese came over with a total surprise but 20 min later the Americans started to beat them, because America fuck yeah
Actually, Germany was, de facto, beaten by the Battle of Moscow 1942, in the sence that losses were higher than could be deplenished. Germany did advance as far as Stalingrad that year, but was given a bloody nose. Final nail in the coffin was the Battle of Kursk summer 1943. This was just before the British and US forces set foot on European soil. Germany was never able to launch any greater offensive on the Eastern Front after that.....
The most important US contribution, was "Lend and Lease". D-Day was helpful, but the Soviets would most probably have liberated Europe by itself, though it would have taken longer.....
It was not a pact. It was a non-aggression pact. Stalin wanted to buy time because he knew the Red Army was not prepared in terms of materiel, organization, etc. He knew the war was coming, so he wanted to push the war to ATLEAST 1942, but according to him, the ideal time would be 1943, and that is when they would achieve equilibrium with the German Army and be able to smash them. He was proven correct, because by 1943, the Red Army was extremely powerful and launched successful operations, and the military industrial base was strong.
@@Lassisvulgaris Very true, Stalin said in retrospect they would have won without Lend Lease, it would have just taken longer. A German general (I forget who) was asked in the Nuremburg trials "At what point did you know the war was lost?" He replied with one word. "Moscow".
The German army was already defeated in 1941-1942.
@@internetperson8638 Hindsight is always 20/20. There are too many "what ifs" to know what could have happened....
Long life to Mother Russia CCCP URSS...❤❤❤❤
Russia is not the USSR unfortunately((
Мосфильм! Показывайте только комедии! Плиииз!
отcтябись.кишка
Gréât !!!!¡!!...
That CGI is perfect.
😢😢 когда снимался этот фильм ещё не было ни какой компьютерной графики
The greatest war movie of all time 🫶🏽
It is a very accurate portrayal of the openeng of the Eastern Front, exept for one colossal mistake. Otto Skorzeny is portrayed here as the leader of the Brandenburger battalion and planner of the commando actions to start the attack on june 1941. On that date, Scorzeny was just a simple infantry lieutenant with the Wienner troops and had no part on planning or any commando action.
Otto Skorzeny's first appointment came on 1943, and his first action was the liberation of the Duce, Mussolini, from his prison on the Gran Sasso mountain in Italy. Then he went on to form and lead the commando battalion on Friedenthal, formed mainly by fallschimjëger troops.
Second lieutenant Skorzeny started the war against the USSR as a lowly platoon commander in the year 1941. Soon he distinguished himself, and climbed up the ladder. He became capitain in 1943, major in 1944 and was promoted to Colonel when he was assigned to defend the Oder at the end of the war.
You can check that on multiple sources.
Putting that aside, the film is absolutely amazing! Great film making of the old Soviet Union. I enjoyed it enormously. Thank you!
Коментатор заслуженный артист Тихонов.
Obviously this was a cold war movie, but the fact they completely omitted the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact, and the repeated warnings from British Intelligence of the Nazi attack is quite telling.
If not to mention Soviet occupation of Poland and the Baltic states. The winter war was also omitted, though Soviet heavy losses convinced Hitler that the Red Army was no match....
Can someone please explain to me why do Russiana pronounce letter H in foreign names as G, for example Hitler, Halder, Holland, Herzegovina etc. as Gitler, Galder, Gerzegovina, Golandiya etc? It's not like the letter H and sound H in particular is not present in the Russian language.
Так нам удобнее.
I wish the translations were more literal.
01:11:10 досадная ошибка вместо 23 июня ...(((23 июля...🧐
Is there an original version without the Russian dubs over the German?
This IS the original version, Soviet way.....
Западным комментаторам которые вспоминают пакт Молотова Риббентропа хочу напомнить что та территория на которую вступила красная армия никогда не была Польшей. На этой территории всегда жили православные белорусы и украинцы . В средние века страна называлась великое княжество литовское. Католическая Польша находится западнее
причем тут совок и княжество литовское? это просто агрессия по отношению к польше в союзе с гитлером
USSR was a slow warm-up country in WWII, it's autocratic and bureaucratic made its operations less efficient than it's supposed to be, let alone the Great Purge before WWII that killed thousands of capable officers in Red Army and made its military force ruled by political commissar rather than experienced officers. Fortunately, Starlin found Zhukov, the "Firemaster" of High Command who leveraged his command ability that won a landslide victory over Japanese aggression in Mongolia, which deterred Japanese army from massive aggression to USSR badly needed by Nazi Germany. It's hard to say Zhukov saved USSR, it's fair to say this man contributed significantly to the victory of WWII.
Interesting note, this was the only time in \WW2 the germans used underwater tanks
At 54:28 i half expected the man to tell the commanding officer that he'd have to answer to the Coca-Cola company.....
Good Dr Strangelove reference.
Генерал капец настоящий мужчина и офицер!!!
Germany lost against Britain though when they tried to invade, the battle of Britain gave Russia time to prepare for Germany and we supplied them. Just thought I'd correct that reading at the start of the movie. Operation sealion would of been the end for us had they succeeded and Russia would fall because of it. Russia though were the main reason for Germany's defeat by far imo so we owe much to Russia 🙏
Uh, Poland? Good movie though; & a fair portion of the world's perspective.
I dont wish to be rude, but where is the admission that the Russians attacked Poland from the other side with an agreement with Germany. This seems to be missing from the introduction. interesting.
UK, France had non aggresion pacts with Germany in 1938, let it to easily annex Czechoslovakia, which had great industry(empowering Hitler even more) the country ready to fight if Poland let Czechoslovakia's Soviet allies through its territory to defend Czechoslovakia, which also had great defensive positions, Hitler in the start without all of Europe's industry and manpower, wouldn't be able to take those heavy fortifications defended by Czechoslovakians and Soviets, thus preventing WWII and 50 millions deaths in Europe.
Instead, the West let Hitler to take the country for zero price, Poland didn't let Soviets there and even attacked together with Hitler itself, participated in aggression and took part of Czechoslovakia. That's plain idiocy, greed, Churchil called Poland "the hiena of Europe" for such shameful act.
Poland paid for that arrogance, stupidity and blind hate for Russians the dearest price of 6 million lives, 25% of Polish population died in 5 years.
wonderful movie! Long live the Red Army and the Soviet people!
Both will return!
44:23 Planes, WTF ?
In the introduction they skip the bit about the Nazi -Soviet pact to jointly invade Poland,thus giving the Nazis the freedom to invade Wesstern Europe.
Britain, France had non aggresion pacts with Germany in 1938, let it to easily annex Czechoslovakia, which had great industry(empowering Hitler even more) the country ready to fight if Poland let Czechoslovakia's Soviet allies through its territory to defend Czechoslovakia, which also had great defensive positions, Hitler in the start without all of Europe's industry and manpower, wouldn't be able to take those heavy fortifications defended by Czechoslovakians and Soviets, thus preventing WWII and 50 millions deaths in Europe.
Instead, the West let Hitler to take the country for zero price, Poland didn't let Soviets there and even attacked together with Hitler itself, participated in aggression and took part of Czechoslovakia. That's plain idiocy, greed, Churchil called Poland "the hiena of Europe" for such shameful act.
Poland paid for that arrogance, stupidity and blind hate for Russians the dearest price of 6 million lives, 25% of Polish population died in 5 years.
Too bad they did not mention that Pavlov went to get executed along with about eight other high-ranking officers. Still, an entertaining film which gives one an idea of what it was like. Yes, a bit of propaganda, but it is worth watching.
Well,they did reintroduce Pavlov's case in later "War on the western direction" from 1990,with quite a gruesome details concerning his torture by Beria.
Agree
in general terms i like this sort of film (and i will watch part 2). the twin engine aircraft with double tailfin? never seen one. anyone know what it was supposed to be? looked more like a beechcraft lol. and all the tanks passing each other... sheesh. perfect opportunity to shoot from the sides. etc. etc. etc. Star Media Russian war moves are far better
Petlyakov Pe-2...?
@@Lassisvulgaris Naah,it's some Czech trainer aircraft. Still at least it somewhat resembles BF-110.
@@kaletovhangar Thanks. I stand corrected.....
@@Lassisvulgaris It´s czech aerotaxi L-200 Morava.
@@myguitarjoe Thanks.....
von rundstedt was old, and it lookes like he was also short, in real life
Chamberlain bought us time to build enough Spitfires to destroy one third of the Luftwaffe in the battle of Britain. He took it on the chest, history has much maligned him subsequently.
85mm T34 tanks were not available until 1943/44.
Neither there were german tanks with russian caterpillars Christie-type as it appears on the movie.
Awesome movie if only they haven’t dubbed the German than I would rate it 10/10
They haven’t dubbed the German. There is just the voice over, you can hear the original German underneath.
The greatest counry ever
Wrong
Today it is a complet different narrative about WW2... East & West... Two opposite sides two different stories... Lessons to be learned... Human memory is short... Unfortunatelly...
Maybe it was a hot style of the time, but, I would NOT have had a mustache of that style even as an actor.
What they've forgotten to mention in the open sequence is, russia Also invaded poland.
16 days after the germans attacked, they (russia) without a declaration of war Stabbed poland in the back, while they (the poles) were fighting for their very existence 😡
At the time, the government of Poland could bot be located. Through no channels could anyone speak to Polish leadership. It was later found out that much of the government along with the president of Poland, had fled to Romania. President Moscicki, being the only president of Poland, and also interned in Romania, left Poland without leadership. He could not hand down any orders, any political action while in Romania. In effect - Both legally by international law, and literally, by the conditions existing in Poland, Poland was no longer a state. It had no government.
President and his government had made their way into Romania as early as September 15th, where they were interned. In International law, if a government is interned in another country, it can take no political action. It can not function as a government. (Romania was neutral in the war, so to have the Polish government in their borders handing down orders to the Polish army fighting the Germans would have made them no longer neutral.)
On September 17th, the Red Army entered Poland. That day Supreme Commander of the Polish military Smigly gave an order to all Polish troops. "The Soviets have invaded. My orders are to carry out the retirement into Romania and Hungary by the shortest roots. Do not engage the Soviets in military actions, only in the event of disarming our units by them. ... Units whose position the soviets have approached should negotiate with them with the aim of the exit of the garrison into Romania or Hungary."
A state of war did not exist between the Poland and the USSR in 1939. To fire on the Soviets was illegal, and insubordination.
On September 18th the soviets told the united states that the intention of their military action was to "protect minorities in the areas of Poland where there is no government." By September 24th, no action had been taken by any Polish-allied state to declare the USSR hostile to Poland, and their neutrality in the conflict was at that time recognized universally.
Only by September 30th had the first stirrings of a Polish government in exile under General Sikorski begun in France. Poland was without a government for atleast 15 days, and had the soviets not secured the area, the Germans surely would have.
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The ussr and germany had in august, with the ribbentrop/molotov pact, agreed to invade and divide Poland.
Did the Russians have T34 in June 41 ? and those German tanks, never seen that design begore.
Those German tanks are T54/55 in costume.
The German tanks at that time were lighter I think. Not the same turret, not the same canon. It's the kind of details that would not cost a lot to pay attention to.
I had also read that Stalin had completely rejected the informations on the attack and suffered a nervous breakdown. --- I do not know which version is true, but both can't be right.
About 1,000 T-34s were present in the western districts of Soviet Union in June of 1941,and about 700 at various stages of manufacture when the war broke out.Most have broken down on the march,with few here and there making a valiant fight.
@@kaletovhangar Thanks for that information Nikola.
@@Marlene-ou5ol Yes I had read that Stalin was shocked by the attack and I also heard that the British gave the soviets the date of the attack but Stalin said not to trust the British and so ignored the warning.
The incompetent vs the incompetent. The politicians fail as they always have and always will.
Mmmm. Politicians. Well - I have some shocking news for u Mr Zig Zog. Politicians are people - just exactly like u and me. Sometimes they lie. Sometimes they drink and drive. Sometimes they have sex with someone they shouldn't. Sometimes they fiddle their taxes. Yep - they are just like you and me. It's gross hypocracy to demand that politicians must, once elected, somehow become better than the rest of us.
Mr ZigZog ... if u can do a better job than politicians, all u have to do is get yourself elected, and we can all stand back and watch you transform the world.
Or maybe not ...
@@toytoy1091 What an interesting specimen! Let us have a dissection. First up, and a red flag, is your attempt to ascribe values to someone else that you do not know. We could leave it here because of the logic that you do no know me and cannot say (you can think it as every Untermensch has the right) what someone else's values are. Not a good start.
Second, the deliberate misspelling of my name is infantile. Really, is that your best shot? I acknowledge if there is a wit in it then maybe you can let it go - for example referring to Donald Trump as Rump because of his unfortunate physical characteristic. But here??
Third, this concept of becoming a politician is a non-sequitur. To explain it terms that you might grasp: Imagine I (or you, or anyone for that matter) do not like cornflakes. We have our reasons (carbs, processing, seed oils). So we express our doubts. It is not coherent to expect a critic to change professions to 'solve the world' from cornflakes. I suspect you will be a little slow (or unwilling) to grasp the inanity of this idea. Let us have another example: You do not like the play of a footballer - it is plain daft to expect the critic to replace that footballer.
Flies do need to be swatted.
@@zogzog1063 Mr Zig Zog, I understand your concerns. But what if you're a famous footballer, and flies land on your cornflakes?
Should you expect politicans to remove the flies, or ban footballers from eating cornflakes ?
The massive German tanks (Tigers) featured in this dramatization did not see service before August 1942!
Да, так же как и т34-85, ис, ис-2 и т.д. Если быть чересчур беспристрастным к подобным эпизодам этого фильма, то тут так же не показано как Гитлер спит, просыпается, ходит в туалет, умываться...
Asta nu e filmul Bătălia pentru Moscova este filmul Fortăreață Brest
Narrator forgot how Russia invaded Poland from the east, with their best buddy from Berlin.
then how about uk and france which signed treaty in 1938 handing over land in czechoslovakia to germany? not to mention poland and hungry also getting land from czechoslovakia at the same time.
also land poland lost 1939 to ussr was and isn't polish land, but poland occupied it after ww1. almost all of it is now in belorus and ukraine.
At the time, the government of Poland could bot be located. Through no channels could anyone speak to Polish leadership. It was later found out that much of the government along with the president of Poland, had fled to Romania. President Moscicki, being the only president of Poland, and also interned in Romania, left Poland without leadership. He could not hand down any orders, any political action while in Romania. In effect - Both legally by international law, and literally, by the conditions existing in Poland, Poland was no longer a state. It had no government.
President and his government had made their way into Romania as early as September 15th, where they were interned. In International law, if a government is interned in another country, it can take no political action. It can not function as a government. (Romania was neutral in the war, so to have the Polish government in their borders handing down orders to the Polish army fighting the Germans would have made them no longer neutral.)
On September 17th, the Red Army entered Poland. That day Supreme Commander of the Polish military Smigly gave an order to all Polish troops. "The Soviets have invaded. My orders are to carry out the retirement into Romania and Hungary by the shortest roots. Do not engage the Soviets in military actions, only in the event of disarming our units by them. ... Units whose position the soviets have approached should negotiate with them with the aim of the exit of the garrison into Romania or Hungary."
A state of war did not exist between the Poland and the USSR in 1939. To fire on the Soviets was illegal, and insubordination.
On September 18th the soviets told the united states that the intention of their military action was to "protect minorities in the areas of Poland where there is no government." By September 24th, no action had been taken by any Polish-allied state to declare the USSR hostile to Poland, and their neutrality in the conflict was at that time recognized universally.
Only by September 30th had the first stirrings of a Polish government in exile under General Sikorski begun in France. Poland was without a government for atleast 15 days, and had the soviets not secured the area, the Germans surely would have.
Территория на которую вступило СССР никогда не было Польшей это територии западной Украины и белоруси захваченные Польшей в результате советско польской войны 1920 года . На этих территориях всегда проживали белорусы и украинцы . В средние века эта территория называлось великое княжество литовское. Польша находится западнее
И как американец Генри Форд строил в германии заводы.
Interesting to see that even in 1985, while Gorbachev was already opening the door, the official Soviet history telling was still so that Poland was attacked by Germany alone in 1939.
Gosh! Be careful! I posted something similar about a week ago and I've been constantly bombarded with indignant (not to mention peculiarly divorced from reality) missives from some weird Stalin fanboy.
Anything that disparages Stalin or the Soviet Union is "fascist lies", or "Western propaganda".
The kid's a real fruit loop.
Pray he doesn't see your comment!😂😂😂
@@robashton8606 I'm not surprised.
He may have been a flippant kid but a serious agent as well.
What Putin is doing now is a direct continuation of the pre-Khrushchev propaganda in which everything that the Soviet Motherland did was clean, peaceful, humane and perfect in all point of views.
He invests a lot in this propaganda -- basically that's around all what he can and want to offer to Russia and to the still gravitating ones of the ex-Soviet countries: a triumphant past. And he wants to polish it from all bloody stains just like his predecessors did.
He learned a lot as a member of the department of active measures within KGB and he's using all professionally.
Also so that they have "liberated" Poland... not invaded
@@saulomagalhaes7431 The killer half-truth that all dirty regimes use.
They really liberated Poland from the Germans... after invading it together with them, after liquidating the officers and upper middle class in the area they occupied and after intentionally waiting for the uprising to be choked in blood without outer help or supply - in order to have even more of the ones ready to act eliminated.
@@lxathu yes that's true... I was also referring more to the earlier invasion when there was still a non-aggression pact with Germany (when btw Britain didn't do anything about it)
Честно говоря, Россия очень хороша, даже если Германию разрушить, она восстановится
Agreed
A good movie, with a lot of historical fails and omissions.
they make comrade stalin look such a kindly old fellow
@@ascott6328 well better Than Hitler who always had bipolar attack,also Stalin were close to Gen Zhukov, not like Hitler who has nobody except maybe Eva'
Now I am waiting film ,,2022 Kyiev three days "
17 sept 1939 Red Army enters Poland - never forget this date!
No mention of it is this film...or in any of the Mosfilm movies about WW2.
You remember this, but not the coming of the Nazis?
@@steveburton9242 I remember that the Brits and French participated in Munich Agreement: "Peace in our times", wel, well, well
@@walterweiss7124 attempting to secure peace, just 20 years after unspeakable bloodbath, is wrong? Only night makes right? Oh well, the red flag flew over Berlin.
@@steveburton9242 attempting to secure peace, at the cost of other nations, as usual
1.st part, 1'30... And the Soviet Union invaded the other part of Poland. Somehow the commentator doesn't mention this fact. As in the old long times. See Patjomkin: History of Diplomacy... and so on.
As a Hungarian you should be deeply ashamed about the roles fascist Hungary, dictatorship Poland and Germany played in shameful destruction of Czechoslovakia.
@@buxtehude123 LOL, that part he will be silent on.
Агрессия и войны всегда шли с Запада 1000 лет! Когда вы поумнеете? Надоели со своими угрозами, пусть ваше зло вам и возвращается!
Знали что воина будет но никто не предприняли ни каких правил.