History Awesome / EnemyAtTheGates

** Taken UpToEleven by the [[https://youtu.be/pV8QJZ0NRJo thunderous accompanying orchestral soundtrack,]] one of the late, great composer James Horner's most criminally underrated works.

--> '''Commissar reading letter''': Everyone here knows that you will not fall back! Everyone here is proud of you! Your father is dead! Your brothers are dead! Avenge us on the hordes of fascists!

* Konig, earlier in the film, shooting one of the soldiers as he jumps between buildings midair within a second of seeing him.Vasily even takes this as proof that Konig is a formidable threat.

** In an Insider video [[https://youtu.be/HB0CZ_5sPPw?t=985 reviewing sniping scenes from movies]], former Special Ops Sniper Nicholas Irving remarks that not only do the details of this scene feel accurate, but also that Vasily takes out the five soldiers ''in the same order that he would have'', faced with that situation.

* Danilov gets one just after the first entry, when he speaks up to Khrushchev about the need to inspire their soldiers instead of just terrorizing them. Considering that Khrushchev's predecessor has just blown his brains out in the other room, and the fact that the Red Army wasn't exactly known for letting its officers speak their minds, and that Khrushchev is taking charge on the authority of [[UsefulNotes/JoesephStalin Stalin]] himself, it took no little courage to speak out like that.

* Danilov gets one just after the first entry, when he speaks up to Khrushchev about the need to inspire their soldiers instead of just terrorizing them. Considering that Khrushchev's predecessor has just blown his brains out in the other room, and the fact that the Red Army wasn't exactly known for letting its officers speak their minds, and that Khrushchev is taking charge on the authority of [[BadBoss Stalin himself]], it took no little courage to speak out like that.

* When Vasily is trapped by Konig in an abandoned warehouse, hiding behind an old oil drum and unable to move without getting himself shot, we get one for each character. First, Vasily had dropped his rifle out of reach, and was throwing his pocket knife attached to a string to retrieve it. He caught it, and started pulling it toward him...only for Konig to shoot the string in half. Then Tania, who followed Vasily, temporarily blinds Konig with the reflection of the sun off a piece of broken glass, and Vasily gets off a shot that hits Konig's trigger hand.

* Vasily and Danilov are lying in between dead soldiers in a fountain when they spot a group of Nazi officers in a nearby building. Danilov wants to shoot them, but he doesn't know how to operate the bolt-action rifle; Vasily takes it, loads five cartridges, and proceeds to score five [[BoomHeadshot headshots]] in twenty seconds or so, timing the shots to coincide with the church bell so the enemy can't hear them. Danilov himself considers the feat awesome enough that he makes a hero out of Vasily.

* Vasily and Danilov are lying in between dead soldiers in a fountain when they spot a group of five Nazi officials in a nearby building. Danilov wants to shoot them, but he doesn't know how to operate the bolt-action rifle; Vasily takes it, loads five cartridges, and proceeds to score five [[BoomHeadshot headshots]] in twenty seconds or so, timing the shots to coincide with the church bell so the enemy can't hear them. Danilov himself considers the feat awesome enough that he makes a hero out of Vasily.

* When Vasily is trapped by Konig in an abandoned warehouse, hiding behind an old oil drum and unable to move without getting himself shot, we get one for each character. First, Vasily had dropped his rifle out of reach, and was throwing his pocket knife attached to a string to retrieve it. He caught it, and started pulling it toward him...only for Konig to shoot the string in half. Then Tania, who followed Vasily, temporarily blinds Konig with the reflection of the sun off a piece of broken glass, and Vasily gets off a shot that hits Konig's trigger hand.

** And later became one himself, when he helped Vasili pinpoint the German sniper's location by [[spoiler: raising his own head up from cover and letting himself be shot and killed]]. Definitely a posthumous [=CMoA=] award.

* Danilov gets one just after the first entry, when he speaks up to Khrushchev about the need to inspire their soldiers instead of just terrorizing them. Considering that Khrushchev's predecessor has just blown his brains out in the other room, and the fact that the Red Army wasn't exactly known for letting its officers speak their minds, and that Khrushchev is taking charge on the authority of [[BadBoss Stalin himself]], it took no little courage to speak out like that.

* Danilov gets one just after the first entry, when he speaks up to Khrushchev about the need to inspire their soldiers instead of just terrorizing them. Considering that Khrushchev's predecessor has just blown his brains out in the other room, and the fact that the Red Army wasn't exactly known for letting its officers speak their minds, and that Khrushchev is taking charge on the authority of [[BadBoss Stalin himself]], it took no little courgae to speak out like that.