Liberation Of Europe.

Liberation Of Europe. , 1974 (30:54)

Annotation: About liberation of countries of Eastern and Central Europe from fascism.

Source description 1: About the liberation from fascism countries of Western and Central Europe.
Principal is 1944’s newsreel.
Crushed German machinery.
Sitting, lying, standing captive and wounded Germans.
A column of German captives passing by.
Soviet soldiers passing throw the field, come down the ruined bridge, pushing a field gun.
A Katyusha gun driving by.
The opening of the Second front in Normandy: airplanes flying, parachutists jumping and landing.
Officials of the Alliance Forces: W. Churchill, field marshal A. Montgomery, and general D. Eisenhower at the observation post.
Disembarkation of the alliance marines.
American soldiers running and shooting, tank driving by, soldiers by the field gun.
German officers by a map.
Column of German tanks driving by.
Marshal G. K. Zhukov and other commanders in trench at the observation point.
War machinery and “Katyusha” canons driving by.
Moscow, the Kremlins wall.
A newspaper with statement of soviet government from 2nd April 1944 about the reestablishment of the USSR’s border, and entry of the Red Army into the territory of Romania.
A Soviet tank in a Bucharest street.
Romanians in the national outfits in the streets.
Soviet soldiers chat with Romanians.
Artwork – hands holding barbed wire.
Riot of Germans in the European occupied countries – soldiers beating and searching people.
A group of people are led to the execution.
Warsaw ghetto: people walking the street, documents are being checked.
Depleted girl getting up from her bed, dying boy lying on the street.
Standing group of Jews.
Prisoners of the concentration camp.
Men in white smocks measuring human skulls.
Depleted people are being carried out on hands and stretchers from discharged concentration camp.
Soldiers of Alliance army by the prisoners.
A prisoner praying, while lying on the ground.
Captives of the concentration camp passing by, children being led and carried out.
Faces of the former captives.
Soviet soldiers shooting with the artillery guns, explosions.
Marshal K.K. Rokossovsky by a map.
Marshals G. K. Zhukov, F. I. Tolbukhin.
General A. M. Vasilevsky and others by a map.
Marshal I. S. Konev looking into a stereoscopic telescope.
Katyushas shooting, tank driving by, soldiers running, soviet airplanes in the air.
Romania - oil derricks in Ploesti on fire.
Soviet tanks and soldiers on the Romanian territory.
Germany – Workshop of the war factory, young woman working.
Airplanes flying, bombs falling, explosions on the ground, ruined Berlin streets.
Field marshal Keitel on the Nuremberg Trial.
FAU rocket on trials.
Chief of the FAU construction team V. fon Braun, captured by Americans, comes out of the doors, talks.
American soldier.
Long - range rockets being launched.
England – Fires in London, fireman’s working, victims carried out.
Flame thrower at work, soviet soldiers running.
Tanks and infantry advancing.
Antifascism rebellion in Bucharest – store on fire, people running in the streets.
Police patrol checking drivers documents.
Soviet tanks driving out of Bucharest.
People greeting soviet soldiers.

Source description 2: Principal is newsreel.
Liberation of Bulgaria: bell ringing, people throwing down a fascist emblem.
Soldiers of Bulgarian patriotic front passing by.
Bulgarian woman hugs her son.
Natives greeting Bulgarian soldiers.
Soviet war machinery driving by: Katyushas, ironclad cars, soldiers in the cars.
Soviet officers passing with Bulgarians.
A car with Soviet and Bulgarian banners rides by.
A monument to the heroes of Shipka, soviet soldier kneeling by it.
The liberation of Yugoslavia – Yugoslavian soldiers and partisans passing by.
Head of the Yugoslavia liberation movement: I. Bros Tito in the mountains.
Skirmish in the mountains.
German soldiers passing by, artillery guns shooting.
Yugoslavian partisans shooting, partisans throwing down the burdening weapons: a tank is being pushed of the edge, an artillery gun being thrown down into a river, a car falling from the hill top into a river.
Winter in the mountains, partisans walking in a single file, carrying wounded on stretchers.
Soviet and Yugoslavian commanders at the observation post.
Katyusha guns shooting.
Soldiers shooting with artillery guns in mountains and town.
Battle for Belgrade – tanks shooting, soldiers in combat.
Women carrying a wounded.
Soviet soldiers running down the street, carrying an officer.
Yugoslavians greeting soviet soldiers, soldier passing through the streets of Belgrade.
Soviet commanders by a map.
Artillery guns shooting, war machinery driving by, tanks.
German soldiers running with rifles.
Czechoslovakia, 1944 – Slovenian national rebellion : explosions, Slovenian soldiers in the street of Banska-Bistrica , released from occupation.
Slovenian banner being hanged on a building.
City’s square, Slovenian soldiers taking up the rifles, combat in progress.
Slovenian partisans shooting.
German soldiers passing by in trucks and motorcycles.
Soviet war machinery moving.
Marshal I. S. Konev and other commanders are standing.
Commander of the Czechoslovakian corps formed in the territory of USSR L. Svoboda with binoculars.
Battle in Karpats – explosions, artillery guns shooting, “Katyusha” canons, tanks driving by, infantry advancing.
Peasants of the Duklins pass meeting soviet tanks.
War machinery is moving along the road.
May 1945 – national rebellion in Prague: skirmish in town, cars driving by, people looking out of the windows.
A patrol walking along the street.
Rebels building barricades.
German sniper shooting from the house roof, German tanks shooting.
People picking up wounded.
Soviet commanders standing by a map.
The advancement of soviet troops to Prague – airplanes flying, tanks moving.
Soviet soldiers on the Prague streets.
People of the city greeting soviet soldiers.
Czech soldiers passing with a banner.
People of Prague (girls and children) riding on a soviet tank.
September 1944 – soviet troops crossing the border of Norway.
Soviet commanders by a map, at the command post.
Artillery guns shooting, soldiers running, explosions on the water, machine gunner shooting.
Soviet soldiers on a ship.
Tanks and infantry advancing.
Norway refugees returning home.
People of Kirkines talking with soviet soldiers.
Norway flag being raised above the building.
France – members of the French resistance running into cover, explosion.
Commanders in headquarters, men are talking on a phone.
Partisans are dragging a box of bullets, transporting artillery gun.
Armed rebellion in Paris: skirmish on the streets, German tanks driving by.
Man leading wounded.
A car driving by, a man throws a grenade out of a window, German car explodes.
French and American tank divisions ride into Paris.
French are greeting and kissing soldiers, wavering flags.

Source description 3: Principal is 1944-45’s newsreel: Paris.
The Head of the Provisional Government Charles de Gaulle and others passing by; Parisians greeting the members of the government.
German sniper shooting from Notre-dam de Paris, people running, seeking cover from gunshots.
Tanks shooting.
Police holding Parisians.
Funeral in Notre-dam de Paris.
Triumphal arch, people on the square.
S. de Gaulle saluting.
French flag on the Triumphal arch.
Soviet forces are forced crossing The Wisla River – tanks and cross-country vehicles entering the river, explosions, soldiers running.
General V. I. Chuikov looking in binoculars.
Soviet tanks on the Poland territory.
Soviet and Polish soldiers shooting and attacking.
Soviet and Polish soldiers passing through a freed polish town., townsfolk meeting the soldiers.
A soldier giving away newspapers with a Manifest of Polish committee of the national liberation.
Polish peasants reading the Manifest.
Peasant being congratulated with acquirement of steadying.
Young people are joining Polish forces.
Young man trying out uniform.
Parts of the Polish forces and passing by.
Advancement of the German forces on Ardennes – German aircrafts flying, bombs falling,
explosions on the ground.
American tank driving by.
Flame thrower at work, padded American tank.
Standing and walking captive American soldiers.
American soldiers in trench, warming by the fire.
Car driving by.
Photographs of W. Churchill and I. Stalin.
Advancement of soviet forces on the direction Warsaw – artillery guns shooting, airplane dropping bombs, pilot in the airplane cabin, machine gun shooting (from the airplane).
Advancement of tanks and infantry.
Artillery guns, tank and soldiers shooting.
Soldiers run the throw the streets of ruined Warsaw, hiding from the fire.
German aircrafts in the air, exploding houses in Warsaw, burning city.
People running in the smoke.
A mad woman smiling, a child walking a set of fire.
Polish refugees returning home.
Notes hanging on a ruined building. A woman crying by a house.
Soldiers of the Polish Forces passing by, members of Polish Government on the tribune.
Orchestra playing, demonstrators walking.
Soviet forces advancement against a war background.
A tank driving by, soldiers running and firing a grenade, a tank burning, a battle in the street of a European city, soviet soldiers walking with a banner.
People greeting soldiers and throwing flowers.
Soviet soldiers talking to inhabitants.
Tracer fire, soviet forces advancing, airplanes flying.
View of earth from the airplane.

Directors: Pumpyanskaya S.

Script writers: Drobashenko S.

Announcer: Khmara L.