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BALLAD OF A SOLDIER
(in Russian with English Subtitles)


SUBJECTS — World/WW II; Russia;
SOCIAL-EMOTIONAL LEARNING — Courage in War;
MORAL-ETHICAL EMPHASIS — Trustworthiness.

Age: 10+; Not Rated; Drama; 1960, 89 minutes; B & W.


1941
This is a classic WW II propaganda film produced by our then ally, the Soviet Union. It tells the story of a young Russian soldier who disables two German tanks and is rewarded with a trip home. The movie is the story of that journey.

The TeachWithMovies.com Learning Guide will show how to use Ballad of a Soldier to extend a child's understanding of: WW II, the Eastern front from the Russian point of view, the massive hardships suffered by the Russian people during WW II, and their heroism in repelling the German invaders.


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Stalingrad

To give you a sense of how our Learning Guides can be used by teachers as lesson plans and by parents to supplement school curriculum or for homeschooling, we have set out below two paragraphs of the Learning Guide to Ballad of a Soldier.
Millions of Soviet soldiers were captured after the German armies encircled them. Some were simply annihilated while others were sent to slave labor camps. There were 1,250,000 Russian military and civilian casualties from the siege of Leningrad alone.

The German invasion stalled in the winter of 1941. The advance on Leningrad was checked in September 1941 and the advance on Moscow was turned back a month later. However, the Germans did not give up easily. The Russians permanently gained the offensive only after the battle of Stalingrad which raged from August 1942 to January 1943.




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