This Soviet propaganda film celebrates the nation’s victory in World War II while showing the strengthening of Socialism and the USSR in the 20th Century.

Narrator: The more years pass since the war ended, the brighter seem the feats of the Soviet nation that fought a cruel and powerful enemy and protected its motherland’s freedom, happiness, and future. (02.09) We keep remembering those who hastened victory with their own blood, life, and effort. The Soviet Army, its commanders, and soldiers were the creators of the Great Victory. The soldiers’ fortitude, bravery, and great willpower amazed the whole world. (02.43) The heroes of the home front were also creators of victory. Their labor merits were united with soldiers’ efforts. (02.56) Lenin’s Party was the wise chief in this sacred war, the Communist Party. It appealed, ‘Everything for the front, everything for victory!’ It directed the mind, will, and energy of the nation to achieve a single goal, to win over Fascism. (03.22)

The path to victory was long and hard. Nevertheless, the long-awaited day came. (04.32) Our social system won. The Soviet Socialist government, born in October, won. The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the union of big and small nations that are nevertheless equal. (05.05) In our country, for the first time in history, a government was born where everything that was created by nature and the nation’s effort belongs to the nation itself. We are proud of it. We are also proud of the fact that it is not exploiters or rich men who govern our country, but those who earned nation’s love, respect, and trust through their honest labor. (05.51)

Nowadays, everyone knows that the most responsible and strong modern revolutionary class is workers. The Communist Party is the militant vanguard of this class in every country of the world. But it is in our country, where the Party was led by a genius thinker and a fearless revolutionary, Lenin, that the working class managed to raise to battle all the people, to create the greatest revolution in history and take power. (06.46) Why was it done? To put an end to exploitation of one man by another, to lead the country on the path of socialism. Vasily Chapaev, a carpenter, Kliment Voroshilov, a locksmith, and millions of other peaceful people became soldiers and commanders in the Red Army to achieve these goals. (07.21)

The working class of Russia was not the only one striving for a revolutionary change of the society. Toiling peasantry, which was the most populous class in Russia back then, was its faithful ally. What were peasants expecting from the revolution? They had already got the soil they had been craving from the government. Peasants, like workers, wanted just one thing – that nobody would again impinge on the fruits of their labor. That is why a plowman in a greatcoat became the main supporter of the working class from the first days of the revolution. The union of the hammer and sickle became the foundation of the power of the Soviet government. (08.08) Who was against the proletarian revolution, against its main idea of eliminating private property? They were depicted on the October caricatures. (08.31) Nevertheless, it is possible to see the enemies of the revolution in their natural appearance, so to say. Those who served the last Russian tsar were the enemies of the revolution. Exploiters of all sorts, land owners and capitalists were the enemies of the revolution. (09.59) Their interests were protected by a counterrevolutionary interim government lead by the swaggerer Kerensky. When the civil war unleashed by Western imperialists broke out, all the enemies of the working people united. (09.24) Foreign patrons generously sponsored them with weapons. Then, thinking that it was safer, those foreign patrons reached out their own hands for Russia. Intervention began. White Guardsmen, invaders surrounded the young Soviet republic.

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