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Instructions: Please share your thoughts about two or more most important from your point of view events happened in Russia during the period 1924-1953. Length: 300-500 words.

Only use sources that provided down there, no outside sources allowed!!!

Video Details:

· Russia 1941-1945: Great Patriotic War: Movies with subtitles

Enemy at the Gates. (2001). Jean-Jacques Annaud – director https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IiKcMt0mfc

· The Dawns Here are Quiet. Two Parts (1972). Director Stanislav Rostotskiy. Composer Kiril Molchanov.

Part 1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfftHKf164E&list=PLgjWe5mDnN7-QkXXgu_Clu4qjyMzwgyCK

Part 2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5mf6tTBNq8&list=PLgjWe5mDnN7-QkXXgu_Clu4qjyMzwgyCK&index=2

· Hot Snow (1972). Gavriil Egiazarov – director. Alfred Shnitke – composer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ay vJ4OUDjM&list=PLgjWe5mDnN7-QkXXgu_Clu4qjyMzwgyCK&index=209

· The most recent Russian movies about WW2: T-34 (2019). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SV4BqDsmcc

· Stalingrad. (2018) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7dtyaKvaMk&list=TLPQMjQwODIwMjBoK_9mOO39Lw&index=2

Details:

Russia Chronology 1924 -1953

1929 - Stalin started the soviet industrialization and collectivization.

1934 - Stalin's Great Purge begins. Stalin eliminates any opposition and hundreds of thousand people are killed.

1939 - World War II begins. Russian invades Poland in an agreement with Germany.

1941 - Germany invades Russia. Russia joins the Allies.

1942 - The Russian army defeats the German army at the Battle of Stalingrad. This is the major turning point in World War II.

1945 - World War II ends. The Soviet Union controls much of eastern Europe including Poland and East Germany. The Cold War begins.

1945-1951 Soviet Union rebuilding the European part of its territory destroyed by Germans during the War.

1949 - The Soviet Union detonates an atomic bomb.

1953 - Stalin died.