Daily pictures : the cranes are flying

(The Cranes Are Flying, Soviet Union, 1957)

The Cranes Are Flying (original Russian title: Летят журавли) is a Soviet film by Mikhail Kalatozov, released in 1957, the cinematographic adaptation of Viktor Rozov’s play, Eternally Alive, tells the sacrifices made by the peoples of Soviet Union to achieve victory over Nazi Germany. In 1958, the movie received the Palme d’Or at Cannes Film Festival

The ending

The complete movie

September 29, 1941 : Babi Yar

the German Einsatzgruppe C and Ukrainian nationalist auxiliaries slaughter more than 30,000 Jewish civilians

November 19, 1942 : operation Uranus

when the European Nazi armies lose WW2

January 12, 1943 : operation Iskra

the blockade of Leningrad is broken

January 31, 1943 : victory in Stalingrad

Nazi Feldmarschall Friedrich Paulus surrenders

January 27, 1945 : the Red Army liberates Auschwitz Vernichtungslager [extermination camp]

Never Forget the Soviet Heroes Who Liberated Auschwitz – Scott Ritter

Soviet Union crushed Nazi Germany

79 years ago, Soviet Union achieved victory in Berlin. Adolf Hitler shot himself on April 30, 1945 ; the Red Army completed the cleansing of the Reichstag in the afternoon of May 1. The shoot of the banner raising was made in the morning of May 2

Nazism in Ukraine

its roots before WW2, its collaboration with Nazi Germany, its legacy in modern Ukraine, how NATO has continually supported Nazism in Ukraine

Nicolas Cinquini