Great Victory: Shared by all

The Great Patriotic War united the peoples of the Soviet Union in the fight against fascism. This film tells the story of a monumental feat of courage – one in which each of the USSR’s 100 nationalities played a role in achieving Victory.

The heroism of the Panfilov Division, made up in part of soldiers from the Kazakh and Kyrgyz SSRs, helped stop the enemy at the gates of Moscow. Tajik cavalry units delivered crushing blows to Nazi troops, including elite divisions like the Death’s Head Units and the Grossdeutschland. In Dushanbe, 22 evacuation hospitals treated wounded soldiers from across the front. 220 factories, as well as the Leningrad and Moscow film studios, were relocated to Kazakhstan, which also took in hundreds of thousands of refugees. In Kyrgyzstan, 18-year-old Toktogon Altybasarova welcomed 150 children evacuated from besieged Leningrad, offering them warmth and care. In the forests of Belarus, partisans derailed German trains, paving the way for the Red Army’s 1944 offensive. Georgian troops defended the Caucasus, holding the line to keep Baku’s oil out of enemy hands.

Historians, experts, and descendants of wartime heroes share stories of courage, unity, and the high price paid for peace. How did these millions, from frontline soldiers to factory workers, unite to defeat fascism? Their legacy lives on in monuments and in the hearts of their descendants across the former USSR.

Watch “Great Victory: Shared by all” on RTD website and on RT’s live feed. The time of the broadcast is available on RT’s schedule page.