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The Defeat of Nazi Troops near Moscow

Plan and edit by Leonid Varlamov and Ilya Kopalin, film producers

Cameramen I, Belyakov, G, Bobrov, T, Bunimovich, L. Kasatkin, R, Karmen, A. Krylov, A. Lebedev,

B. Makaseyev, B. Nebylitsky, V, Solovyov, M, Shneiderov, V, Shtatland, S. Sher,

A. Schekutyev, A. Elbert. Assistant cameraman - M. Sukhova

Assistant producer - V. Chekulayeva. Text by P, Pavlenko, Voice-over - A. Khmara,

Lyrics by A, Surkov. Music by V, Mokrousov, Sound-track - V, Smirnov.

Sound technician - I, Gunger, Crew chief - G. Azov

A Central Newsreel Studio production, October 1941 - January 1942

October 1941. Grim days. The enemy is approaching Moscow,

General of the Army Zhukov, the Western Front Commander, was ordered in a State Defense Committee resolution

to defend Moscow on its western frontiers, i.e. 100-120 km west of the city,

Lieutenant General Artemyev, in command of the Moscow garrison,

was tasked with defending the city on its approaches.

Following the appeal of the Moscow Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks and the Moscow Soviet of People's Deputies,

Moscow residents turned their city into a giant fortress, barricaded its streets, and turned its frontier posts into bulwarks.

Mechanics, teachers, artists, steelworkers join special volunteer units and workers' battalions.

Women and girls replaced their men, who had left for frontlines, at factories.

All factories and all workshops make weapons.

A grave danger stood over Moscow.

During those days, State Defense Committee Chief Joseph Stalin addressed the nation on the order from the Communist Party's Central Committee.

'Comrades Red Army men and Red Navy men, commanders and political instructors, partisans!

The whole world is looking at you, the forces that are capable of destroying and crushing the hordes of German invaders.

You are viewed by the world that has been temporarily subjected to the German yoke as liberators.

You have been chosen to fulfil the great liberating mission.

Be worthy of this mission.

You are waging an honest, liberating war.

May the bravery of our great ancestors give you strength in this war:

Alexander Nevsky, Dmitry Donskoy, Kuzma Minin, Dmitry Pozharsky, Alexander Suvorov, and Mikhail Kutuzov.

Let the victorious banner of the great time bless you!

For the complete defeat of German invaders!

Death to German occupiers!

Long live our glorious motherland, its freedom and independence.

Under the Lenin banner, forward! On to victory! '

Tens of thousands of workers were building defensive lines in those difficult days.

Moscow residents and members of nearby collective farms put up defenses and tree barriers to stop the enemy's advance to the capital.

Moscow worked day and night producing weapons for victory.

Plants, factories, workshops sent weapons and material to the front nonstop,

Hitler deployed about 80 divisions near Moscow to capture the Soviet capital, Our forces battled far from the city to defiect the Nazis,

Fascists paid dearly for every step they made toward Moscow,

They had to step over their fellows'corpses to move on.

The guards forces of the Great Patriotic War, soldiers and commanders who won glory for their courage...,

..., and who were guided by the single law - victory - were emerging in the battles near Moscow.

Many units have guards banners already,

The nation's best sons rise to defend Moscow,

Arise, our mighty family, Arise to deadly war

With fascist powers of enmity, With all their cursed horde,

Let fury of the noblest sort Sweep seething like a wave.

This is a war, a holy war, Our people's life to save.

We'll give a stern rebuff, will we To the fascists' iron yoke,

To violence, and to robbery, To butchery of the folk.

Let fury of the noblest sort Sweep seething like a wave.

This is a war, a holy war, Our people's life to save.

Day by day bleeding, fascists continued creeping towards Moscow,,,

... inspired by the thought that its suburbs were close already,

But Hitler's general attack was all but finished,

By an order from Comrade Stalin,

the military council of the Western Front prepared for the decisive counterattack.

Their objective was to thwart the enemy's second major drive, as well as to start crushing fascists near Moscow,

On December 6, 1941, having exhausted the enemy, Red Army units launched a counteroffensive,

General Rokossovsky's troops moved to the Istra, pressing enemy tank and infantry divisions.

Soviet pilots continuously delivered air strikes on the enemy,

General Boldin's troops pressed the enemy, pushing them back from Tula,

General Belov's cavalry guards chased the retreating Germans from Stalinogorsk,

General Lelyushenko's troops pressed for Rogachev.

Paratroopers were air dropped in the enemy's rear fianks,

Paraskiers broke communications, made attacks on the enemy from the rear, thereby cutting off the enemy's retreat.

General Kuznetsov's units approached Yakhroma.

General Govorov's troops conducted an offensive in the central Mozhaisk direction,

Fascists were driven from Mikhailov and Yepifan.

The task was fulfilled by troops under General Golikov's command,

The Western Front's forces pounded the enemy's defense,

Our troops were driving the occupiers from Russian villages and towns.

People are welcoming their liberators,

Partisans are leaving woods where they spent 45 days waging a fierce war.

Oreshki villagers are welcoming their friends and loved ones who fought against fascists dealing strikes from the woods.

Artemy Batov, the Solnechnogorsk City Soviet Chairman, just returned from the woods...

... where he fought in a guerrilla regiment. He is surrounded by city residents.

Right from the battlefield he is heading for his office,

'Comrades, brothers! Solnechnogorsk is ours!

Stalinogorsk is ours!

Long live Stalin! '

Meetings took place in cities and villages to rejoice the liberation from the fascist yoke.

The Red Army is pressing forward, liberating city after city,

VENEV Retreating fascist hordes destroyed cities and burnt down villages in powerless rage.

ROGACHEV

MIKHAILOV

Leaving Moklets station, fascists set the elevator filled with grain they had seized from farmers on fire,

2,000 farmers gathered to put out the fire and saved the grain,

YEPIFAN

KLIN

The Soviet people will never forget the atrocities committed by fascist savages,

Before abandoning a village, fascists locked families in their homes and blew them up,

No mercy to murderers!

Out of vicious hatred to our people, they burned the Red Army's wounded,

They shot the farmers.

Bastards! They raped and then killed our women.

Each village has traces of fascist atrocities.

Fascists insulted Russian culture by destroying the monuments of the country's glory and pride,

They burnt down the picturesque town of Istra to the ground.

Chekhov's home was burnt to the ground.

They left the famous New Jerusalem Cathedral, built by the great architects Rastrelli and Kazakov, in ruins.

The great Russian composer Tchaikovsky's home was mercilessly destroyed in Klin.

Fascists destroyed Yasnaya Polyana, the estate of the great Russian writer Leo Tolstoy,

They destroyed the vaulted room where Tolstoy wrote War and Peace,

a book about the heroism the Russians demonstrated in the War of 1812 against Napoleon.

They dared to bury their looters and criminals near Leo Tolstoy's tomb,

Chasing the enemy, the Red Army moved to the west.

Moscow's environs after the defeat of fascists,

Germany lost more than 85,000 troops near Moscow alone from November 16 to December 10,

From November 16 to December 10, 1,434 German tanks, 5,460 trucks, 575 guns, 339 mortars,

and 870 machine-guns were destroyed or seized near Moscow alone, not counting the actions of the aircraft.

Hitler's plan to encircle and capture Moscow was thwarted!

The site of fierce fighting

The nation was proud to learn about Red Army units'victory over fascist troops near Moscow.

Soviet people held meetings to support their Red Army.

They promised to work better, make more shells, cannons, tanks, airplanes, and thereby help it defeat the enemy.

Another strike on the enemy!

The road to Moscow and back.

The Red Army continued chasing fascist troops,

General Konev's troops near Kalinin.

Units under the command of General Maslennikov and General Yushkevich are ousting Germans from the city,

Kalinin was liberated!

Russian units freed Volokolamsk,

General Katukov's guards units saw a terrifying picture of fascist atrocities in Volokolamsk.

The soviet people will never forget these animals!

The Red Army will liberate all of its soviet cities and villages!

Chasing Germans, General Govorov's troops approached Mozhaisk,

On January 20, Soviet troops ousted Germans from Mozhaisk, the fascists' last stronghold in the Moscow region.

The entire Moscow region was cleared of fascists,

Borodino, the monument of Russian military glory.

Red Army units moved through Borodino, the 1812 battlefield, further on to the west, chasing the retreating enemy,

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