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Battle for Moscow ()

Overview

While still heavily influenced by the official version of events, the film unflinchingly covers the disastrous policies and inefficiencies, which allowed the Germans to rapidly advance and take the newly incorporated lands of Belorussia and Ukraine into their hands, as well as large portions of western Russia and Ukrainian lands east of the “old border”. Nevertheless, it is painfully skewed in its portrayal of Stalin and those around him: Stalin is benevolent; wise; heeds the advice of his cronies in the Supreme Soviet and allows his generals to make the final decisions when the chips are down. Presented in two parts; Aggression and Typhoon.

Length 336 minutes

Actors

Yakov Tripolsky | Nikolay Zasukhin | Vladimir Troshin | Vyacheslav Ezepov | Anatoly Nikitin | Stepan Mikoyan