The Graves Are Not Silent

Pre-war Minsk. Government House, University Campus, the building of the Academy of Sciences of Belarus, Opera and Ballet Theater. MI Kalinin in Minsk on the occasion of the presentation of the Order of Lenin to Belarus, rides in a car down the street, greets the demonstrators. The delegation of Western Belarus enters the meeting room of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR; S. I. Pritytsky speaks. Newsreel 1941 - 1944: the occupation of Belarus by fascist German troops, mass executions of civilians; destroyed cities, settlements; the hijacking of the population to Germany. Minsk prisoner of war camp, a camp near the town of Mogilev. Mass graves of villagers, Soviet prisoners of war. They say (synchronously) witnesses, eyewitnesses of the atrocities of the German fascist invaders. N. Zhdanovich, M. V. Kozlovsky tell (synchronously) about the death of 1800 residents of the village of Borki, who were shot by the Germans on June 15, 1942. A. Borodina and N. Deikun speak about the mass executions of civilians in the area of Gomel on December 22, 1942. NS Shabun speaks about the execution of the inhabitants of the village "Baiki" on January 22, 1944. At the mass grave in the village of Baiki, in which about a thousand people are buried, there are crying women, relatives of the victims. TS Shakhmetova (a former pupil) tells about the death of the children of the Domachevo orphanage. Say the former prisoners of the Trostenets camp K. Tarasenko, G. Kantor; prisoner of the concentration camp Auschwitz L. Tishutina. Newsreel: partisan movement in Belarus. The guerrillas receive weapons, make their way along the trench, lay explosives under the railroad tracks. Explosion of a railway track; burning train. The partisans are running through the woods, firing machine guns and rifles, mortars. Actions of Soviet troops to liberate Belarus. Marshal K. K. Rokossovsky with the generals at the command post. Soviet planes are flying; tanks and armored vehicles go on the offensive. Artillery pieces, Katyushas, long-range guns, and cannons are firing. The Trostenets concentration camp blown up by the Nazis is burning. Soviet troops are on the streets of Minsk. Minsk residents welcome Soviet soldiers. Soviet soldiers rescue children who were in the Ozarichievsky death camp. Children on carts are transported to the hospital. Rescued children in a hospital ward. Monument to those killed in the Trostenets camp. Laying wreaths at the Victory Monument in Minsk.

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Scenario S. Sploshnov