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I am struggling to find an adequate rating for Basov's series. Basically, any rating is possible because I have many objections. Naturally, we cannot avoid the necessary dose of propaganda while watching it, the black and white characters, the fact that the Soviet action elements, which are very rare here, are laughable, and we can end with the fact that furious female Nazis in the film are played by actresses with typical Slavic features, in which even a shortsighted person could reliably identify their Russian origin. The pace of storytelling and the characteristics of film language have, of course, fundamentally changed, but it is still interesting that even though the series is long, it contains a lot of nonsense and in the end, the individual characters and their adventures are depicted inadequately. The fragmented storytelling is also influenced by the large time span because the four-part series takes place in the entire first half of the 1940s. Overall impression: 35%. It is almost amusing how the official Soviet policy affects the series, with individual characters often declaiming the relevant political stances. It is an "international" series, intended for the market in the friendly countries of the Warsaw Pact, so the partisan unit is multinational and composed of members from countries with whom the Soviet Union had the best experiences. Due to the existence of the German Democratic Republic, a surprisingly large number of German anti-fascists appear in the series. (23/05/2010)