
Fascist Italy's prime-minister Mussolini is arrested following the Allies landing in Sicily. Meanwhile, Soviet troops plan their offense towards Kyiv. Lt. Col. Lukin's regiment crosses the Dnieper river as the division's vanguard. Unbeknownst to them, they're merely a ploy to mislead the Germans so the rest of the army can catch them off guard.

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as Zoya

as Orlov

as Sashka

as Lukin

as Gromov

as Vasiliev

as Dorozhkin

as Janek

as Maksimov

as Leontyev

as Zhukov

as Rokossovsky

as Vasilevsky

as Vatutin

as Antonov

as Konev

as Moskalenko

as Rybalko

as Katukov

as Stalin

as Roosevelt

as Churchill

as Hitler

as Mussolini

as Keitel

as Manstein

as Kluge

as Model

as Skorzeny

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as Helena

as Henryk

as 'Blacksmith'

as old man




as Vyacheslav Molotov

as Voroshilov





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as Gromov's adjutant


as Mikhail Malinin


as Savchuk


as Vlasov







as Arthur von Cristmann





as Hans Krebs




as The German Soldier

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