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Film is a reflection on the tragic causes of wars. The film is assembled from newsreels shot in different historical periods. 1 part. Newsreels 1999-2000: A group of paratroopers of the 51st Regiment of the 106th Guards Airborne Division. The paratroopers step forward one by one. Panorama of the military tent camp of the 51st Airborne Regiment during the 2nd Chechen War. Soldiers sawing a log, chopping wood. One of the fighters is cooking something in a pot, the other opens canned food. A panorama of the soldiers during lunch. The soldiers wash the dishes after dinner. A column of trucks with fighters moves along the road past the Sunzha River. View of one of the settlements on the river bank. Helicopter in the sky. The road in the mountains. An ambush on a regiment column near the village of Serzhen-Yurt 04/23/2000. Soldiers flee under fire. A blown-up car and a helicopter are burning in the sky. One of the soldiers knocks down fire from a wounded comrade. A doctor assists a burned wounded soldier. General view of the wounded soldiers. Sad faces of tankmen. The soldiers are smoking. Newsreel footage of 1941-1943: A panorama of a destroyed railway station, a tank is passing by, soldiers are walking along a road muddy from the rains, all in mud, trucks with fuel are driving along the road, getting stuck in the mud; the inscription on the cab of one of the trucks "Death to the German occupiers", the soldiers are pushing the truck stuck in the mud. Soldiers carry ammunition across the bridge, a group of fighters set off from the shore on a raft. They cross the river, go ashore. A horse harnessed to a cart gets out of the water onto the shore. Soldiers on vacation: wash, brush their hair, clean their boots. Soldiers pull out birch crosses from the graves in the cemetery of the Nazis, dump them in a heap around the fire, boil water over the fire, drink tea. Explosion at the site of the cemetery of the Nazis. German planes are dropping bombs, a downed plane falls. Part 2. Newsreel footage of the war of 1941-1942: View of wounded soldiers, soldiers carry the wounded, put him on a cart; wounded soldiers in the trench; Red Army prisoners in the trench, with their hands up, crawl out of the trench, out of the dugout; panorama of captured Red Army men. Newsreel footage of the war with Finland in 1939-1940: Views of the city of Vyborg, occupied by Soviet troops, trucks with Red Army soldiers pass along the city street; general view of a car with radio transmitters at the front line, one of the commanders reads out a leaflet at the microphone; a captured Finnish soldier shows documents to a group of commanders; raising a balloon for reconnaissance on enemy territory; The movement of the Red Army unit on skis in camouflage coats; soldiers prepare for an attack, overcome barbed wire, carry ammunition, go on the offensive under the cover of tanks, lie in the snow, shoot; explosions in the forest, the commander smokes and reprimands his subordinates for something, the fighters go on the attack. Newsreel footage of the Civil War of 1918-1922: The cavalry squadron of the Red Army is galloping; a panorama of the Red Army men on the street of one of the cities, after its liberation from the White Guards; funerals of the dead, rewarding the wounded Red Army soldiers who distinguished themselves in battles. Newsreel footage of the 1st World War (1914-1918): Soldiers of the Russian Army are walking along the road, cavalry gallops. Loading bombs on an airplane. A panorama of an airplane taking off Newsreel footage of 1922-1925: N. Bukharin, A. Rykov and others at the graduation of cadets from the school of red commanders. Soldiers of the Red Army in the exercise: on horseback overcoming obstacles. The Red Army men play in "small towns", have a rest, compete in wrestling. Newsreel footage of 1912-1914: A trooper at a gallop knocks down a scarecrow, the soldiers are watching him; soldiers are fishing, one of the soldiers is throwing fish into the pot; sanitization of soldiers' linen in special machines; work of a soldier's shoemaker, bakery, cooking in a soldier's kitchen; soldiers eat, rest, pray, march. Part 3. Newsreel footage of the 1st World War 1914-1917: Delivery of a wounded soldier on a stretcher to the hospital tent, surgeons at the operating table; a disabled soldier leaves the hospital, they show him the way, the sisters of mercy are standing nearby, wounded soldiers are sitting; soldiers try on prostheses in front of members of the medical commission; view of the prosthesis making workshop; wounded in the territory of one of the hospitals; loading the wounded into a boat, onto a ship; sailors in a boat are pushed off the side of the ship; ship crew on deck; ships at sea, ship guns hit, explosions at sea, one of the ships is on fire, a view of a sinking ship. Newsreel footage showing the explosions of houses, bridges, roads, trains, filmed at different times in different wars.

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sound engineer D. Konyushenko, editor I. Golynkina