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A 1975 Soviet epic based on Mikhail Sholokhov's unfinished novel, following a battered Red Army regiment defending a Don River crossing during the German summer offensive of 1942. A tribute to ordinary Soviet soldiers in the tradition of socialist realism.
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The 1975 Soviet epic, based on Mikhail Sholokhov's novel, follows a rifle regiment's last survivors fighting a desperate rearguard action on the Don River st...
The summer of 1942 saw German forces advance to the Don and Volga rivers in Operation Blue. Soviet units fell back under catastrophic pressure before Stalin's Order No. 227 — 'Not one step back' — issued in July 1942....
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