The Unknown War - Ep19 The Last Battle of the Unknown War avi

The Unknown War is a major series consisting of twenty programs showing newsreel films taken during the siege of Leningrad in World War II. Originally The Unknown War television series was intended to be shown nationwide over network television. When the project was proposed, network officials verbally encouraged it, but then the networks turned their backs on The Unknown War series. The television series contains scenes of unspeakable suffering by the Russians. Most viewers, haunted by the enormous tragedy unfolding before their very eyes, can't help feeling some sympathy and admiration for the Russians who endured all that.

The problem with so much of the history of WWII on the Eastern Front is that for decades, little was known from the Russian side because of strict Soviet censorship and historical archives being closed to foreigners (and even to most Russians.) Moreover, many German archival documents and films were captured by the Soviets, so even more info was withheld from public view. Worse, the memoirs of skilled Soviet leaders like Zhukov, Chuikov and Vassilevsky were littered with the obligatory Red propaganda which was a requirement for being published at all.