Lessons Of History
Lessons Of History
"History teaches us that we must oppose war before it begins. Going back in history to the beginning of World War Two, the Soviets appealed for joint action, but to no avail. Starting with Austria, Hitler took over one European country after another, and the western powers gave in to Hitler; then he invaded Poland, and the most terrible, destructive war in history commenced. Gradually 61 countries were drawn into the war. But the Soviet Union stood in the way of fascist domination. The German war machine came up against the resistance it had never yet encountered. The hardships, battles, and brutality experienced by the Soviets at the hands of the German army are depicted. Germany was eventually defeated. We see the crimes against humanity and the liberation of the camps. Now the United States has forgotten the lessons of history and is on a frenzied arms race and is hyping up a frenzied hate campaign of anti-communism. This forces the Soviet Union to perfect defensive weapons..."
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Introduction credits, title screen "The Lessons of History"
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Opens to shot of World War II monument, a military parade packs the streets of Leningrad with paraders and on-lookers - parade members are both current military men and veterans, the dead are honored at a war memorial with flowers
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Footage of 1930s Germany military build up, Soviet delegate pleads his case at League of Nations meeting, HITLER and MUSSOLINI give impassioned speaches, Hitler takes Austria and expands into Europe, CHAMBERLAIN brings peace to England, Poland is invaded, air raids, paratroopers, buildings crumbling, marching soldiers, civilians killed in lines by firing squads, people evacuated from their homes
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Germany marches into France, teary eyed public looks on, more firing squads killing civilians, evacuation of people
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Soviet Union before the war - city scenes, the Barbarossa plans agains the Soviet Union, Hitler and Mussolini consult their advisers, arrows are drawn over a map of the Soviet Union, violence on the eastern front - Russians and Germans shoot it out, corpses lie strewn over the battlefield, German soldiers steal livestock, houses burn, peasants lament their losses
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Hitler and his advisers survey a map, Moscow is their target, JOSEPH STALIN, troops marching on Red Square, Russian air force, armaments, tacticians, the counter attack is launched!, snow troopers on skis, surrendering Germans, German military equipment and soldiers lie dead in the snow outside Moscow,
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Suggestion of the holocaust, people hang from gallows, Russia continues to build up its military, an armored train is shown, the defense industry producing equipment - tanks roll out of factories
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Intense artillery fire, Aerial view of the demolished Stalingrad, men rejoicing in Stalingrad at the Russian victory, tanks roll west toward Germany, a bunch of famous Russain commanders are shown, troops run and jump across the battlefield, German corpses, destoyed tanks, forlorn soldiers
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(01:15:58) Russian soldier on the front celebrate their success, the Soviet airforce gets serenaded by a pianist on the runway, tanks continue to roll, Germans destroy Soviet towns in their retreat, mass graves, forlorn residents
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Contemporary footage of a war memorial in Belarussia and children honoring the dead
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Russian guerillas blow up trains, guerillas across Europe blow up trains, trucks, buildings, Soviet forces begin to liberate Eastern Europe, the prisoners of concentration camps are released, a little girl shows a tattoo of her camp number ID
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contemporary footage of people at war memorial
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Soviet army marches further across Europe, parades and people celebrate their liberation
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Soviet allies land two years later then agreed upon Western Europe and begin the second front, the allies lay siege to Berlin, Hitler sees young boys off to the front, German leaders emerge from a bunker in surrender, Soviet troops hand out rations to Germans, Red Square celebrates with fire works and lights, New York has parades, people across Europe and America celebrate, DWIGHT EISENHOWER and General ZHUKOV shake hands over the victory order
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Contemporary footage of two Americans speaking about the need to avoid future wars in front of a Soviet war sculpture
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Images of American armaments and soldiers that climax in intensity to nuclear explosions, images of nuclear arms and war protestors in U.S. and worldwide
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Japanese protestors in the Soviet Union speak of the tragedy of Hiroshima
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Mourning Soviet veterans pay their respects to the dead, footage of humongous parade thorugh Leningrad, fireworks in the skies
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