# WORLD WAR II SOVIET PARTISAN OPERATIONS BEHIND GERMAN LINES 48864

This post-WWII Soviet propaganda film (entirely in Russian) pays tribute to the role played by partisan groups in fighting the invading German Wehrmacht during the Great Patriotic War. The film includes rare footage and re-enactments depicting a variety of operations, from harassing German rear areas and supply lines, administering rough justice to persons who collaborated with the Germans (a firing squad is seen around 1:35 ), and working to re-assure Soviets in isolated and occupied areas that Stalin will liberate them. A Soviet newspaper is seen being published at 2:30 . Field communications are seen at 2:57 , and biplanes fly secret missions into German territory to support the partisans and deliver weapons at 3:20 , as well as evacuate a wounded comrade. Women fighters are seen at 4:30 being decorated in the field, along with boys (one of them looks about age 10-12) who have joined the fighting forces. The Soviet partisans were members of resistance movements that fought a guerrilla war against the Axis forces in the Soviet Union and the previously Soviet-occupied territories of interwar Poland in 1941–45. The activity emerged after the Nazi German Operation Barbarossa during World War II, and according to Great Soviet Encyclopedia it was coordinated and controlled by the Soviet government and modeled on that of the Red Army. The primary objective of the guerrilla warfare waged by the Soviet partisan units was the disruption of the Eastern Front's German rear,…

- Kind: Film
- Genres: War, Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/48864UnknownRussianFilm10)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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