
Moreover, it was in the East that the Nazis carried out their worst atrocities.

It was on what Germans called “The Russian Front” or “The Eastern Front” (“Ost Front”) that Adolf Hitler’s Wehrmacht deployed the bulk of its forces, and suffered the bulk of its casualties.Īfter early disasters, Joseph Stalin’s Red Army learned to counter Germany’s innovative mechanized tactics in battles like the offensive against Moscow the nightmarish street fighting at Stalingrad the titanic armored clash at Kursk and the even more colossal “Destruction of Army Group Center” on the Polish border.Īnd eventually, it was not the Union Flag or the Stars and Stripes that was raised over Berlin’s Reichstag, but the Red Banner. He agrees only because he has a much bigger plan in mind - a daring and carefully planned but also virtually impossible escape.Though it is not apparent in the Anglophone popular culture that dominates the cinema, broadcasting and publishing industries globally, the bulk of the combat in the European theater of World War II - which ended 75 years ago - took place in the East. Ivushkin is offered to become the commander who operates the T-34 and pick his crew from fellow camp prisoners. When the Wehrmacht establishes a new training center for its elite armored forces using the latest T-34 as a running target. Miraculously, he succeeds but gets captured.ġ944: Ivushkin is confined in a concentration camp in Germany.

Second lieutenant Ivushkin, who has just graduated from the tank academy, is dispatched on a suicidal mission - with one T-34 tank and a small crew he must stop a dozen of top-notch German tanks from attacking a nearby city. The release will be available for purchase on June 11. Independent distributors Well Go USA will bring to Blu-ray Russian director Aleksei Sidorov's war drama T-34 (2018), starring Alexander Petrov, Viktor Dobronravov, Vinzenz Kiefer, Irina Starshenbaum, and Pyotr Skvortsov.
