What Are You Thinking Soldier

Austria, Vienna; streets, embankments, squares, passers-by, city transport. Monument to a Soviet soldier in one of the squares. Burials and monuments at the Vienna cemetery to Soviet soldiers who died in the battles for the liberation of Austria. Newsreel: Soviet soldiers are fighting on the streets of Vienna. Tanks are driving through the city; the fascist swastika falls. Soviet troops pass through the streets of liberated Vienna. The people welcomed the passing soldiers. The territory of the former concentration camp at Mauthausen (near Vienna). Former crematoria, quarries; a fence braided with barbed wire. Newsreel: prisoners in a concentration camp. The camp number is on the shirt, on the prisoner's hand. A woman, a man, tortured in a concentration camp, are lying on a bunk. Monument to a Soviet soldier. Monument to General D.I.Karbyshev. Pre-war photographs by DI Karbyshev. Newsreel: Soviet soldiers release prisoners: they open the camp gates. Freed prisoners. A rally on the territory of the former camp. Laying wreaths. An eternal flame burns. The film features poems by the poet M. Matusovsky.

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Script I. Bessarabov, M. Matusovsky, sound V. Kotov