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About the events of the summer of 1940, when units of the Soviet Red Army entered Riga. On the visit of the Latvian delegation to the meeting of the 7th session of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR in Moscow. On the proclamation on July 21 by the People's Seimas of Latvia as a Soviet Republic (Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic) and the admission of Latvia to the Soviet Union on August 5, 1940.

Stalingrad is a 1943 Soviet documentary. The film illustrates the famous battle of the Red Army with the Germans for Stalingrad.

Depicts the Battle of Kharkov. The film incorporates German footage of the invasion of Ukraine, which was later captured by the Soviets.

On August 24th of 1940 a group of cameramen cross the immense territory of the Soviet Union before it was attacked by Nazi Germany, and capture multiple aspects of life in this new world.

A number of frontline cameramen shot the footage used in this documentary of the Battle of Moscow, between October 1941 and January 1942,in which a people's war against the German invaders, whose atrocities are shown in graphic detail, is begun, with echoes of traditional Russian heroism and an appeal to save the country's religious and cultural monuments.

Destruction of cities and villages. Victims of German bomber raids. The fighting of the Soviet Army.

Foreshadowing that of Nuremberg, the trial and execution in Kharkov in December 1943 of four Nazis guilty of atrocities and war crimes during the World War II.

Propaganda film aiming to justify the annexation of the Romanian provinces of Bessarabia and Bukovina by the Soviet Union in 1940.

About the struggle of Soviet partisans with Nazi invaders during the Second World War. Partisans are fighting in various regions of the USSR, including the Caucasus. The film uses footage from German newsreels.

The siege of Sevastopol, the city of 100,000 population which held off 15 Nazi divisions for 260 days and surrendered when only 11 buildings were left standing, is shown here with the concise and jagged clarity of Soviet cameras.