Name: Friedrich Ermler. She Defends the Motherland (1943) @seventeenmomentsinsoviethi4921
Uploaded: 2014-04-03T01:29:31-0400
Duration: 8 min 17 s
Description: The leader of this partisan band, who has lost her husband and child to Nazi marauders, and whose powers seem to include joining the younger members of the group in marriage, uses her unshakeable faith in the durability of Moscow and the Soviet government to rally her people.

Uzbeks and Meskhetiian Turks Clash (1991) @seventeenmomentsinsoviethi4921

Uploaded April 2014 | Updated September 2026, 3 days ago

Ethnic conflicts among Uzbeks and Meskhetiian Turks in the city of Orsh, Kirghiziia, June 18, 1990. The film pins the blame for the conflict on the 1921 agreement with Turkey dividing Nakhichevan and Nagorno-Karabakh between Armenia and Azerbaijan, rather than on Soviet-era nationality policies. From the documentary «Mine Field of Perestroika»

Uzbeks and Meskhetiian Turks Clash (1991)

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Friedrich Ermler. She Defends the Motherland (1943)