The real story of a hero of the Soviet Union that got caught in a game of cat-and-mouse with a German sniper during the Battle of Stalingrad in WWII. Subscribe to our second channel: tinyurl.com/Mo...
At the ending the narrator is not telling the truth... the guy sacrificing himself did not think that humanity isn't word saving... he gave a speech how there can never be true communism, never equality, that men will always be man, there is no new man. There will always be rich and poor. Rich in gifts poor in gifts , rich in friends, poor in friends, rich in love, poor in love. There was no talk about saving humanity. The talk was about how communism has failed and there will never be equality.
You no this movie is basically a lie because in real life there weren't officers who is shooting men who were escaping because the soldiers when there because they wanted to protect that country and they also cross the river at night nobody died when they were crossing the river and come on the scene with a rifle shared between 3 people, that's a cap
my dad told me when i was a kid "nobody wins in a fight" that stuck with me even if you win and beat the other dudes ass you just ruin your day or two and walk away th8inking about it for a week. its just a total waste of time i dont got time for nothing.
My great-grandfather's brother was a tanker and fought in Stalingrad. Too bad I can't find out more about him since his nephew (my grandfather) has died. All I know is that he received the Order of the Patriotic War, 2nd class, and a medal for bravery.
My grandfather bombed the Nazis from a B-24 Liberator. He never really spoke of it. He only ever told us two stories of his time in the Army Air Corps. He actually survived the war as a bomber crew member, something most men did not manage to achieve.
@@TehButterflyEffect Cool. Almost all of my male relatives fought until the 5th generation. My great-grandfather's brother, who fought in Stalingrad, was demobilized in 1946 with the rank of senior lieutenant of tank troops. My great-grandfather was a counterintelligence officer of the NKVD and fought in Warsaw, Prague, Berlin. He was in Berlin in 1945-1947. He has the Order of the Red Star. They both survived. My great-great-grandmother's brother also survived, but returned home wounded and crippled. He went to war when he was over 30 years old. He had gunshot and shrapnel wounds to his chest, abdomen, legs, and he was forced to walk on crutches all his life. He could also wake up at night and scream. My great-great-grandfather fought in WW1 in the artillery troops and in the Red Army during the Civil War. I also had a relative (I don’t remember whose brother) and he went to war at the age of 40 as a partisan. He hit a mine
This was a great movie, I remember seeing it when it came out many years ago. In real life Tania and Vasily thought each other to be dead after the events of the movie and somehow managed to never meet up again in their lifetimes..... life sucked before the internet.....
At the ending the narrator is not telling the truth... the guy sacrificing himself did not think that humanity isn't word saving... he gave a speech how there can never be true communism, never equality, that men will always be man, there is no new man. There will always be rich and poor. Rich in gifts poor in gifts , rich in friends, poor in friends, rich in love, poor in love. There was no talk about saving humanity. The talk was about how communism has failed and there will never be equality.
@@BenLW81 I was actually asking for what part specifically about the campaign. I would buy Vanguard, but with recent news of the acquisition, I might just hold off until it comes to Game Pass.
@@moddedinkling4168 Call of duty 1 has the same boat landing scene and the same rushing towards death scene that you see in the movie. Call of duty 2's soviet branch has you playing as Vasily himself. World at War has the exact same Fountain scene with the sniper.
Decent movie, but not without faults. The real life ending would have been better than the movie's Hollywood schlock. In reality, Vasily thought she died in Stalingrad and only found out when being interviewed by the author of "Enemy at the Gates" that she survived the war. They never saw each other again.
At the ending the narrator is not telling the truth... the guy sacrificing himself did not think that humanity isn't word saving... he gave a speech how there can never be true communism, never equality, that men will always be man, there is no new man. There will always be rich and poor. Rich in gifts poor in gifts , rich in friends, poor in friends, rich in love, poor in love. There was no talk about saving humanity. The talk was about how communism has failed and there will never be equality.
At the ending the narrator is not telling the truth... the guy sacrificing himself did not think that humanity isn't word saving... he gave a speech how there can never be true communism, never equality, that men will always be man, there is no new man. There will always be rich and poor. Rich in gifts poor in gifts , rich in friends, poor in friends, rich in love, poor in love. There was no talk about saving humanity. The talk was about how communism has failed and there will never be equality.
@@tanelviil9149 Which could be interpreted, given the guy was a political officer and most likely an avid communist, in the same way as 'humanity is not worth saving (when communism has failed). So it's not the most accurate way to say it, but still fits.
The movie is cool, but as a person who is into researching WW2 I could not bring myself to watch it again after the first time, due to all the historical inaccuracies made to deliver the plot. I guess there is only so much film makers can do to keep the movie presentable in a historical setting.
@@krishnasanyal7 documentaries follow the narrative and are very selective about historical accuracy. If you want true historism without ideoloy and subjectiveness, if you want nothing but dry facts, read historical documents.
@@mikhailalmaz they definitely did something right because I thought the movie was alright, and I just love Rachel Weisz's face, especially her smiling face, but most of all her anguished crying face.
Only nco squad commanders and fallschirmjaegers had them. But later during Stalingrad and after the mp-40s became more prevalent especially in assault squads.
Yes. But it's the more recognizable weapon associated with the Germans in WWII - so for a movie with time and budged constraints it's the better physical prop to convey the story. It's not accurate - making the movie a bad documentary, but for what it tries to be it's good enough.
This movie portrays attacks by literally unarmed soldiers and machine gun downing retreating troops, you really think too many MP40s in German hands is unhistorical lmao?
@@dhwwiiexpert “quick! He’s getting away!” I always got nervous when that happened as my brother would put it on the hardest difficulty for me and I failed so many times.
One of the things that annoyed me the most in this movie was the absolute exaggeration of Order 227 "No Step Back" (the summary execution of deserters). In the VAST majority of times, soldiers caught deserting were forced to attend penal battalions, punishment units that were made to perform exceptionally dangerous tasks such as clearing minefields and leading assaults. While executions did occur, the total number on the ENTIRE Eastern Front (1941-1945) was "only" a couple of ten thousand which may sound a lot...until you realize the death toll of all the battles in the Soviet Union frequently totalled in the millions. TLDR: Executions of deserters did happen in the Soviet Union, but not as much as commonly portrayed in media, and DEFINITELY not to the extent in Enemy at the Gates.
Sort of. In the vast majority of circumstances Red Army soldiers were simply told to go back to the front, and the vast majority complied. Traumatised soldiers wandering back from the front line has happened in every war, the Red Army simply dealt with them in the way that every other army dealt with them: by telling them to go back. The absolute worst example of this in the movie is where the Russians have an MG that mows down deserters. The only recorded event anything like this was where a soldier fired an MG burst over the heads of retreating soldiers to scare them into fighting.
I would change the title he was not fighting against n@zis he was fighting against german soldiers, many of them were not n@zis but they must fight in the army its very important to see the different, a nice example is the battle of castle itter where german soldiers and americans fight against the ss (n@zis)
@@Berlina08482 Why people are so desperate to clean up the image of the Wehrmacht, I will never understand. The Wehrmacht were involved with some of the worst war crimes of the war, introduced the oath of loyalty to Adolf Hitler on their own initiative, and were Nazi stooges despite being the largest armed faction in Germany and the only ones capable of overthrowing the Nazis. Fuck the Wehrmacht.
@@olivernorth7418 I think cus cold war propaganda that made people think that the Wehrmacht were clean, since they needed the people to support the army again
Shout out the people who played Call Of Duty World at War back in the day (Not the newest one youngings), the first Soviet Mission recreates and pays homage to the Fountain Scene perfectly iykyk 😏😏
This has much of the story of Stalin's Lady Death, Pavlyuchenkova, with 309, was a rifle champion who took the gun from her fallen companion and started taking revenge for the terrible rape and murder she found when going to help at a retirement home. With a degree in history, she toured the west encouraging the US first lady to campaign to supply her fighters. She established the navy's sniper schools, having rewritten and condensed training publications, drawing thousands of women into the field with privligagese that recognised their importance and skills. Her training drew in orders and communications from downed officers, especially the highly decorated German head of their sniper school, whom she tracked and killed. His promotions and awards having killed over a hundred, caused her General to promote his lady Sargent, somewhat eventually to Colonal with Hero of the Soviet union. On her chest.
I would change the title he was not fighting against n@zis he was fighting against german soldiers, many of them were not n@zis but they must fight in the army its very important to see the different, a nice example is the battle of castle itter where german soldiers and americans fight against the ss (n@zis)
@@Berlina08482 that was after hilters dead.. that means. end on war.. so de SS still the enemy, before that all german soldiers belonged to the Nazi party.
@@Berlina08482 not rly no thats, german propaganda "the average wehrmaht troop is just following orders and protecting the father land" sure not all in the wehrmaht were nazıs but most of them are and if your gonna say "but rommel" lets face the facts he was a nazi but just a logical one, when he knew the war is lost he wanted to surrender to the allies thus his esexution he may seem like a nationalist german but thats american propaganda to make the american populus not hate the germans
@@b.p2359 simo häyhä killed soldiers easy kills pavlichenko killed officers and ohter snipers harder kills im not trying to discredit simo häyhä he was still a great sniper
The Germans definitely did not surrender in 1943. They may have withdrawn from the area...but still in the fight. The Americans didn't land in France until June of '44. Almost another year of fighting before the Soviets burned the Reichstag in Berlin in May of 1945.
This reminds me of a guy named Jarman Cale who fought for a liberation army in Iraq. He had over 100 kills and disabled an estimate of 20-30 vehicles with metal piercing bullets. Very interesting guy, look him up some time.
I remember watching this moving with my father and brother as a kid. I still love this movie kinda a coincidence how i had a dream of me fighting in WW2
@@breezy3054 and being a civilian in all of that? F that, my parents were cauggt between two enemies, besieged in a city on all sides by all sorts of soldiers and weapons. Finally, some time later, my dad got a rifle and uniform, he then went onto the frontline to defend his hometown, and many friends of his died: both soldiers and civilians. It broke him, he still drinks and can barely function like a human without alcohol. What has he seen? No one will ever know.
In real life he actually killed the German in the same manner as saving private Ryan through the scope but since it came after saving private Ryan they changed the way of the death
In reality vasili existed and was made a hero by Propaganda Major König in the other Hand didnt exist and his first (and only Mention in documenta ever) was written in 1954 iirc... So 9years after the war has ended
To be clear: the vast majority of this film is pure fiction. It's based loosely on things that happened, and as far as depictions of the Battle of Stalingrad go, it's pretty decent, but most of the events that do transpire in the film never happened, and most of the characters either never existed or were changed so much they may as well have.
not a sniper but he is badass, jump on top of a burning tank destroyer and used the M2HB and managed to capture a lot of Germans, it even sounds like a typical Hollywood cliche
I remember that this movie is best war movie that always watching it when I was young. It's my first movie to makes me interested to Russian army, Russian war history, and video games. And I also remember the scene where Vasili shot 5 German officers that is very similar to the Call of Duty World at War Vendetta. The theme song of this movie is my favorite too.
@@WEMBLEYNE Yes, the movie completely slanders the red army. Painting them as cowardly mobs blindly thrown forward with no weapons only to be shot by their own side. None of this happened. The red army was a highly skilled, professional army, there were certainly ammo shortages in Stalingrad, but soldiers were never thrust forward in a suicide charge and gunned down. It was incredibly offensive to veterans. It doesn't even try to give credit to the soviets.
Ironically there is evidence that the great 'Sniper Duel' at the end of the movie was made up by Vasily Zaytsev himself. There is no record of Eron Konig in any German military records from the time, and the only source of that name comes from Zaytsev memoirs. It is widely believed that Eron Konig was created by the Soviet Union as a means of boosting moral of their soldiers. Creating the legend of Zaytsev. So, the "Real Story !!" in the name of the video is technically a misrepresentation.
They won thé battle of Stalingrad by offering there population and their troops. It's typical communisme, the society is above thé individual. The communist fought like pigs, , no respect nor for thé enemy nor for their own people. This is a Hollywood shit film that romantisses a period that was terrible for the entire world .on every side. And the nazi's were stopped in 45, but communism is still active. They are the same .
this is one of the worst war movies ever mad everything in this movie is made up it has not even 0 % of truth its somehow below that this is one of the least accurate movies not just war movies but movie in general literally everything is made up
now, load your rifle, but hold your fire. wait until the bombers are directly overhead, the sound of the engines will drown out your shot. man when that game dropped it was one of the greatest years of my life :)
the longest day beats spr spr has a super inaccurate dday scene there were no bunkers the beach was 300 yards long the boat drivers were all British mortars killed most of the us troops,. not mg fire,. the us troops stayed in the water for a long time ,.until the tide went up,. there were only 2 rows of x chezch hedgehogs they were not all over / all on the beatch there were other obstacals flamethrowers don't explode the shingle was concrete not sand the us troops were not scared as they though the germans were killed by the two bombings of the beach and the mg42 could only fire for 10 sec (: edit mg42 can fire for 2 not 10 sec (: 4 days later edit (:
At the ending the narrator is not telling the truth... the guy sacrificing himself did not think that humanity isn't word saving... he gave a speech how there can never be true communism, never equality, that men will always be man, there is no new man. There will always be rich and poor. Rich in gifts poor in gifts , rich in friends, poor in friends, rich in love, poor in love. There was no talk about saving humanity. The talk was about how communism has failed and there will never be equality.
The real nightmare of the nazis is that one guy who took a freaking broadsword to battle AND WON Also I’m pretty sure this can be used as an example of Florida people Because they can bring a sword to a gunfight and win
This movie is fine but I hate that they changed some things for shock value. 1: Soviet officers were not abusive to the soldiers. They understood the situation and a lot of soldiers were young, they helped boost morale instead of just executing them. 2: Soviets did not kill soldiers falling back. When soldiers retreated they would be rounded up to regroup in larger numbers and sent back to the fight when they have calmed down. I hate hearing people say the Soviet army was a place of hell because I can tell they only know their history from Call of Duty. The Soviet army were extremely loyal to the mother land. They are fighting for their families back at home because they’re told the Germans are going to slaughter them of they get past them. Young soldiers loyal to the country took this to heart and fought till the very end.
At the ending the narrator is not telling the truth... the guy sacrificing himself did not think that humanity isn't word saving... he gave a speech how there can never be true communism, never equality, that men will always be man, there is no new man. There will always be rich and poor. Rich in gifts poor in gifts , rich in friends, poor in friends, rich in love, poor in love. There was no talk about saving humanity. The talk was about how communism has failed and there will never be equality.
While Vasily was a very real person, hero and sniper the duel with the German Master Sniper was just Communist Propaganda... no Major Konig even existed.
This movie made me want to be a sniper so bad I watched it time and time again, then when I turned 18 I joined the army and they didn't want me to be a sniper they talked me out of it, and I was a 15t my biggest regret was listening to them idiot recruiters, although I had a good time and have a good job now I always think about where I'd be and what I'd done if I went to sniper.
I know good and damn well a soldier wouldn’t use not only that poor of grammar but call a recruiter an idiot, second, most don’t give a shit where you go once you sign that contract, but even if I assume all of what you wrote is true, you better be kissing and calling your family every night that you never used a rifle for them, btw it’s a rifle, not a sniper
Think again.. To be a sniper, you have to give up your way of living, family background, personalities, bank account, credit card, friends, amost everything about you.. Meaning to say government still watching you even you retired.. You even need to report to them your status from time to time.. Because with your skills, you cud be the threat/mole to government/enemy/organization.. They will be rooting you until the day you die.. Your skill is your curse..
This movie was frankly epic. One of my favorites. It’s too bad it gets lumped in with B roll and crappy CGI movie reviews on this channel by a AI voice who just tells you the plot.
@@cfilorvyls457 you dont even know what b roll is, nothing to do with a tier shenanigans lmao. hes saying that the movie is one of his favorites and doesnt like the way its presented in 13 min
@@WM-gf8zm Show me valid sources that he inflated numbers in his diary, shot at practically new army, and name all of the better snipers than him. Go on.
It's a great movie with incredible acting. But it is inspired by historical events and not historically accurate. Many of the characters shown in the movie never existed and there was no sniper-engagement as shown in this movie. The whole character of Major Koenig was fabricated. There are also some minor details in the movie that don't fitt the timeline like T34/85 tanks.
@@cesarefildani5023 Eh. The USSR was pretty terrible. And they have been pretty cruel even to their own soldiers. I heard a very old Soviet Veteran once say in a documentary, he had the choice between two dictators and he chose to fight for the one that spoke his language. The Soviet army was not like shown in this movie. But there have been no-step-back orders by Stalin. And the Soviet Politcomissars have been known for their cruelty. Stalin himself is known for saying, I quote "In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance.". So there is that.
@@CrniWuk The soldier could have just been a cherry picked disillusioned veteran. I wont discredit his story, but find out who made the documentary. If it was a western nation/company or just a private company or capitalist supporting group, then look at it with a critical eye. No step back was not directed at the soldiers but at higher officers who would give up swaths of land to the Nazis, along with it thousands of people and lots of industry and farmland. Stalin made the order because he was infuriated that they would just throw so much so easily with the thought that that land contained so many people and so much material. the order said nothing about shooting soldiers who fell back. If soldiers fell back from a failed attack, they weren't killed. Deserters were dealt with in the same way every country dealt with deserters. That quote was misattributed to Stalin. In fact, it turns out most 'quotes' from Stalin were misattributed and created through plays, books, rumors, or just older quotes being slapped with a 'Stalin' label by some western "intellectual".
"Wie oft?" ("How often?") was a phrase understood by everyone in Berlin in the immediate aftermath of the second world war. "How often have you been raped by Russian soldiers?" was what was really meant. Such a matter-of-fact exchange summed up how much it came to be taken for granted that German women suffered at the hands of Russian soldiers who captured Berlin. An estimated 2 million German women fell victim to the troops, 100,000 of them in Berlin. An estimated 10% of rape victims died, mostly from suicide. Many had abortions and those who did give birth often gave their babies up for adoption. In 1946 almost 4% of Berlin-born children were estimated to have Russian fathers.
even though i consider war to be bad and dont encourage such atrocities, after what the soviet had gone through , it was just a revenge for the evils that German soldier had brought upon them n their families
Holliwood 'Schlock' of the worst variety. It is a very carefully crafted but historically inaccurate and tainted with the 'Western' mythology around Soviet methods tactics and strategy, which was post-WW2 established by.... the surviving German generals.
At the beginning when they were going to the front lines with the boats, I immediately recognized it from a mission in a old CoD game for the PS2, I think it was Call Of Duty, Finest Hour but I don't know.
