Military Tuesday : Pobediteli : Soldiers of the Great War
Pobediteli : Soldiers of the Great War (or Victors in Russian) is an award-winning Russian interactive multimedia resource which retells major events of the war on the Eastern Front during WWII, starting with Operation Barbarossa, the over-ambitious German invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941. Completed in 2005 to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the end of WWII, Pobediteli was one of the 5 winners in the e-culture category of the World Summit Award that year.
Watch the offensives and counterattacks unfold on a virtual map of Eastern Europe and Russia, complete with rarely-seen footage from the archives and first-hand accounts by Red Army veterans which provide insights of the conflict from the men and women who fought against the German invaders during the war.
A Russian Il-2 pilot recounts a chance encounter with a flight of Ju 87 Stukas
Pobediteli allows you to appreciate the scale of the conflict in ways that books can’t – especially when you visualize the relentless advance of the German panzer armies towards Moscow in 1941 as well as the equally breakneck charge of the victorious Soviet armies towards Berlin in 1945 on the animated map.
The German gains by the end of 1941
The endgame : Berlin surrounded by the victorious Red Army
The video clips show memories of victory – Soviet infantry advancing on the German Reichstag with the Soviet flag in hand.
… of defeat – Field Marshal Friedrich Paulus at the surrender of the German 6th Army at Stalingrad.
… and the devastation of war – the city of Minsk reduced to rubble.
Learn more about war on the Eastern Front with Pobediteli : Soldiers of the Great War.
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