- Himself - Narrator: No country, no people, suffered so terribly in the war, as the Soviet Union. Nowhere else are the memories of war so alive today, and so profound. The German invasion brought about a catastrophe which seemed at first no nation could survive. In the siege of Leningrad alone, which lasted for over two years, more human beings died than the total war dead of Britain and the United States, combined. Yet it was here that Hitler was broken. The Russian people faced the possibility that they might perish, and overcame it.
- Himself - Narrator: Russia was saved by its soldiers and by its people. But in the earth, never to welcome the coming of peace, lay 20 million dead.
- Himself - Narrator: [quoting the poem by Antokolsky] Do not call me, do not wish me back. We're on a route uncharted, Fire and blood erase our track. On we fly on wings of thunder, Nevermore to sheath our swords. All of us in battle fallen, Not to be brought back by words. Will there be a rendezvous? I know not." I only know we still must fight. We are sand grains in infinity, Never to meet, nevermore see light.