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The films are a dramatized account of the liberation of the Soviet Union's territory and the subsequent defeat of Nazi Germany in the Great Patriotic War, focusing on five major Eastern Front campaigns: the Battle of Kursk, the Lower Dnieper Offensive, Operation Bagration, the Vistula–Oder Offensive, and the Battle of Berlin.
War and Peace (1966–67, USSR) (Война и мир in Russia) The Last Battalion (1967) Prussian soldiers fight against rushing Frenchmen; Waterloo (1970), depiction of the Battle of Waterloo; The Guerrilla (1973) Napoleon and Love (1974) Napoleons relationships with his women as a backdrop to his rise and fall; Love and Death (1975) Die ...
Goodbye Soviet Union (Estonian: Hüvasti, NSVL, Finnish: Näkemiin Neuvostoliitto) is a 2020 Estonian-Finnish tragicomedy film and the first Ingrian film. It was written and directed by Lauri Randla .
On 25 February 1956, Nikita Khrushchev delivered a speech condemning Stalin's cult of personality in front of the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. In the midst of it, he told the audience: "Let us recall the film The Fall of Berlin. Here only Stalin acts. He issues orders in a hall in which there are many empty chairs.
Using stock footage shot by the BBC, the series chronicles the collapse of the Soviet Union, the rise of capitalist Russia and its oligarchs, and the effects of this on Russian people of all levels of society, leading to the rise to power of Vladimir Putin.
Even as the economy of the Soviet Union strengthened, film production continued to decrease. A resolution passed by the Council of Ministers in 1948 further crippled the film industry. The resolution criticized the work of the industry, saying that an emphasis placed on quantity over quality had ideologically weakened the films.
Citizen K is a 2019 documentary film about Mikhail Khodorkovsky, written and directed by Alex Gibney. [5] [6] [7] It is a film about post-Soviet Russia [8] featuring Khodorkovsky, Anton Drel, Maria Logan, Alexei Navalny, Tatyana Lysova, Leonid Nevzlin, Igor Malashenko and Derk Sauer.
Liberating a Continent is about the role Pope John Paul II played in the demise of the Soviet Union. It argues that John Paul II's 1979 visit to Poland was a critical event leading to the fall of the Berlin Wall and ultimately the dissolution of the U.S.S.R. It theorizes that John Paul engendered a "revolution of conscience" which ultimately ...