Year 1941: The Sacred War

12 hrs. 43 min.

Language Russian

Authors Alexander Mikhaylovsky, Yulia Markova

Author Alexander Mikhaylovsky

Author Yulia Markova

Narrator Boris Pavlyukov

The beginning of July 1941 was black with grief: German tank divisions drive toward Moscow and Leningrad. Six Soviet armies of the first strategic echelon are encircled and completely smashed in border fighting. The front, torn to shreds, rushes eastward, while from the depths of the Soviet Union, in columns, troops of the internal districts are hurried forward to stand before the enemy as an “impregnable” wall and perish in the following battles—because these forces are not even enough for active defense, and Marshal Timoshenko dreams of counteroffensives.

The Soviet military doctrine of “little blood on someone else’s territory” has already been shattered into dust, and Comrade Stalin has already said his historic words: “Lenin left us a great power, and we’ve…,” but still orders fly from Moscow to the troops: “Stop, defeat, destroy.” And the generals of peacetime are drawing Napoleonic plans for which they have neither the strength nor the means, nor even the military talent.

And then, at that moment…

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Год 1941, Священная война