Soviet Youth Defend Their Homeland

1930s. Sports festival on Red Square. On the podium: J. V. Stalin, V. M. Molotov, K. E. Voroshilov. Students in the classrooms of higher educational institutions. Production processes at the Zaporozhye Metallurgical Plant. Harvesting cotton. Dneproges dam. The audience in the Gorky Park of Culture and Leisure. World War II 1941-1942. Territory of the USSR. Settlements are burning. Civilians left homeless. Killed. Women are crying. The soldier is leading the wounded girl. Cavalry movement. Soviet military aircraft in the sky. Artillery pieces are firing. Volunteers and militias receive weapons. Seeing off to the front. Girls volunteers at the military registration and enlistment office. Warships at sea. Red Navy men at the torpedo tube. Tankers get into the tank. Tanks move in the field and forest. Combat operations of the Soviet troops. The corpses of German soldiers. Girls and boys are digging fortifications and anti-tank ditches. Sandruzhinitsa Masha Andreeva crawls across the battlefield for the wounded, makes a bandage. Attack of the Red Army units. The city of Leningrad. Armed workers emerge from the gates of the Kirov plant. AA Zhdanov presents awards to the fighters. A Soviet sniper is shooting. Anti-aircraft guns are shooting. Defense of the city of Sevastopol. The city of Volokolamsk. Gallows. Eight Komsomol members hanged by the Nazis on the gallows. Meeting. Women are crying. The funeral. Sculpture of Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya. Partisans in the ranks. Presentation of an award to a partisan girl. MI Kalinin presents the gold medal of the Hero of the Soviet Union to Ilya Kuzin. Hero pilots M. D. Baranov, A. Khlobystov, A. Starikov, A. Molodchiy, Fateev, Semenov, Yushinov at the aircraft. Production processes at military factories: the manufacture of shells, the assembly of tanks, aircraft. Production processes in agriculture. Anti-fascist rally in Moscow. Caucasus. Highlanders receive weapons. Street fighting in Stalingrad. The movement of the column of German prisoners. Ballerina O. Lepeshinskaya dances in a hospital for wounded soldiers, shooting at a shooting range at targets. Young workers of the Urals are undergoing combat training.

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