Вторжение - Season 1

In the late 1930s, European politicians smiled, shook hands, and signed agreements. But each new compromise only brought disaster closer. They called it a fight for peace. In reality, they were surrendering country after country to Hitler.
             

1937-1938. Fascism had already made its presence felt. Japan had begun a new phase of its war for the conquest of China. Germany and Italy were fully assisting General Franco's fascists in suppressing the Republicans in Spain.
             

1938-1939. The Munich Agreements between England and France, Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy gave Hitler a huge part of Czechoslovakia and invited him to new conquests in Eastern Europe.
             

By September 1939, the war had been raging for years—Japanese aggression in China, Italian aggression in Ethiopia, Nazi aggression in Spain, and Hitler's annexation of Austria and Czechoslovakia. Each time, the Soviet Union aided the victim of aggression, while the West repeatedly succumbed to Nazi aggression.
             

By the end of 1940, the Soviet leadership had no doubt that a major war was imminent. Intelligence revealed that Germany was intensively, systematically, and comprehensively preparing for an attack on the USSR.
             

June 22, 1941. At 4 a.m., Germany, without declaring war, unleashed the might of the most advanced military machine ever created on the Soviet Union. Documentary footage captures the first hours of the invasion: the Russian army puts up unprecedentedly daring resistance, the Nazi vultures are destroyed in the air, and Great Britain, only yesterday an adversary, becomes an ally.
             

Autumn 1941. The enemy is at the gates of Moscow. Hitler is throwing all his forces at the capital, hoping for its fall. It is under the walls of Moscow and Leningrad that not only the outcome of the war but also the survival of the Russian people is being decided. Bloody battles unfold, and the enemy suffers heavy losses. The entire world looks to Russia as a force capable of stopping the German invaders.
             

In the Soviet Union, new, well-equipped divisions were being formed, ready to come to the aid of Moscow under attack by the Nazis. The enemy, on the other hand, was suffering heavy losses, but this did not stop Hitler, who set his sights on capturing and destroying Soviet cities. Germany's thirst for victory led to a crushing and shameful defeat.