Soviet Offensive
Series
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- War Pictorial News
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 1 / 1
- Summary
- General Sikorski arrives in the Soviet Union and is met by Monsieur Kotz, the Polish Ambassador to Russia, the Vice Chairman of the Council of People’s Commissars and the Vice Commissar of Foreign Affairs of the USSR. Received by Mikhael Kalinin, President of the Supreme Soviet. Visits one of units of Polish Army being formed on Polish territory. Soviet Government awards Order of Lenin to British Squadron Commander. Russian ski-troops harass the retreating Nazis. City of Tula almost surrounded by Germans, but the manufacture of weapons continues. Turning out skis and small arms in a Moscow factory. A tank repair depot. On the Eastern Front, Russian Cavalry recapture towns. The Russian Winter drives the Germans back. Soviet Airforce lead the offensive against the Rhine [sic] Army. Village after village is recaptured. Scenes of devastation after two offensives on a town; German dead and half-frozen German prisoners.
- Keywords
- Politics and government; Aviation; Industry and manufacture; War damage; Prisoners of war; Exile; Military; Awards and honours
- Credits:
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- Commentator
- Rex Keating
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- Imperial War Museum Film and Video Archive
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- The IWM also preserves the original nitrate film copies for the World War II period of British Paramount News, Gaumont British News and Universal News.
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How to cite this record
'Soviet Offensive', War Pictorial News Issue No. 42, 16 Feb 1942. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/newsonscreen/search/index.php/story/156057 (Accessed 09 Jul 2025)