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* BuxomIsBetter: A lively discussion among the horny soldiers of House #6 about Katya includes one soldier insisting that he likes big breasts, and that Katya does not seem to have such.

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* BuxomIsBetter: BuxomBeautyStandard: A lively discussion among the horny soldiers of House #6 about Katya includes one soldier insisting that he likes big breasts, and that Katya does not seem to have such.


* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: It's a 12-part miniseries based on a {{Doorstopper}} book.


* Viktor Shtrum: A physicist, evacuated to Kazan after the Germans came to the gates of Moscow, still there a year later. Viktor is a Jew, who has to deal with anti-Semitism in Soviet society, while worrying about the more dire threat to his mother, somewhere behind the German lines. Although he is married, he's taken a fancy to Maria Ivanovo, the attractive wife of his colleague Pyotr. Viktor is basically an AuthorAvatar for Vasily Grossman, and the actor is costumed to look just like Grossman.

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* Viktor Shtrum: A physicist, evacuated to Kazan after the Germans came to the gates of Moscow, still there a year later. Viktor is a Jew, who has to deal with anti-Semitism in Soviet society, while worrying about the more dire threat to his mother, somewhere behind the German lines. Although he is married, he's taken a fancy to Maria Ivanovo, Ivanova, the attractive wife of his colleague Pyotr. Viktor is basically an AuthorAvatar for Vasily Grossman, and the actor is costumed to look just like Grossman.


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* DearJohnLetter: Col. Novikov gets one when Zhenya decides to return to her husband and follow him into exile.


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* UnresolvedSexualTension: Maria and Viktor never do consummate all that sexual tension, although towards the end of the series she's calling him "my love" and "darling".

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* CrapsackWorld: The Soviet Union at the end of 1942. If you aren't getting shot at by Nazis, you're living under Stalin's dictatorship.


* Viktor Shtrum: A physicist, evacuated to Kazan after the Germans came to the gates of Moscow, still there a year later. Viktor is a Jew, who has to deal with anti-Semitism in Soviet society, while worrying about the more dire threat to his mother, somewhere behind the German lines. Although he is married, he's taken a fancy to Maria Ivanovo, the attractive wife of one of his colleagues. Viktor is basically an AuthorAvatar for Vasily Grossman, and the actor is costumed to look just like Grossman.

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* Viktor Shtrum: A physicist, evacuated to Kazan after the Germans came to the gates of Moscow, still there a year later. Viktor is a Jew, who has to deal with anti-Semitism in Soviet society, while worrying about the more dire threat to his mother, somewhere behind the German lines. Although he is married, he's taken a fancy to Maria Ivanovo, the attractive wife of one of his colleagues.colleague Pyotr. Viktor is basically an AuthorAvatar for Vasily Grossman, and the actor is costumed to look just like Grossman.



* Yevgenia (Zhenya): Lyudmila's sister. Married to Commissar Grymov, but they separated shortly before the outbreak of the war. She was evacuated from Moscow to Kuibyshev in 1941, and is working in a garment factory. She has a lover, Col. Novikov, who is introduced serving in the South Urals but is soon transferred to Stalingrad.

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* Yevgenia (Zhenya): Lyudmila's sister. Married to Commissar Grymov, but they separated shortly before the outbreak of the war. She was evacuated from Moscow to Kuibyshev in 1941, and is working in a garment factory. She has a lover, Col. Novikov, who is introduced serving in the South Urals but is soon transferred to Stalingrad. Commissar Grymov, as it happens, is also sent to Stalingrad.



* KilledOffstage: Tolya is last seen being taken away from Stalingrad after being severely wounded by an artillery shell. The next episode reveals that he died on an operating table at a hospital in the rear.

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* KilledOffstage: KilledOffscreen: Tolya is last seen being taken away from Stalingrad after being severely wounded by an artillery shell. The next episode reveals that he died on an operating table at a hospital in the rear.



** A much more honorable example in the form of Commissar Grymov.

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** A much more honorable example in the form of Commissar Grymov.Grymov, who is embarrassed by the Marxist lectures he's supposed to give to front-line troops.

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* KilledOffstage: Tolya is last seen being taken away from Stalingrad after being severely wounded by an artillery shell. The next episode reveals that he died on an operating table at a hospital in the rear.

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* Major Berezkin: Grekov's superior officer on the Stalingrad front. He worries about his wife and child; they were evacuated to the interior and he hasn't head from them in some time.

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* DyingDream: Just as Grekov dies in the LastStand he has a vision where everyone from the squad shows up and they all embrace.


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* LastStand: Grekov and everyone else in House #6 is killed when the house is literally wiped out by a German attack.


* TogetherInDeath: Katya is killed by a German shell. Tolya is cradling her in a PietaPlagiarism shot when the next shell lands, and he collapses and dies on top of her.


* KilledMidSentence: Two Russian soldiers are in the middle of a pitched argument about a gun placement when a German shell kills both of them.



* ThePoliticalOfficer: Commissar Roushkin, a minor character in the first episode. He is introduced wearing a flower in a buttonhole of his uniform. And he's drunk.

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Commissar Roushkin, a minor character in the first episode. He is introduced wearing a flower in a buttonhole of his uniform. And he's drunk.drunk.
** A much more honorable example in the form of Commissar Grymov.


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* TogetherInDeath: Katya is killed by a German shell. Tolya is cradling her in a PietaPlagiarism shot when the next shell lands, and he collapses and dies on top of her.


* Yevgenia (Zhenya): Lyudmila's sister. Married to Commissar Grymov, but they separated shortly before the outbreak of the war. She was evacuated from Moscow to Kuibyshev in 1941, and is working in a garment factory. She has a lover, Col. Novikov, serving in the South Urals.

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* Yevgenia (Zhenya): Lyudmila's sister. Married to Commissar Grymov, but they separated shortly before the outbreak of the war. She was evacuated from Moscow to Kuibyshev in 1941, and is working in a garment factory. She has a lover, Col. Novikov, who is introduced serving in the South Urals.
Urals but is soon transferred to Stalingrad.



* HistoricalDomainCharacter: [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasily_Zaytsev Vasily Zaytsev]] pops up and tells his tale of [[Film/EnemyAtTheGates a duel with a German sniper]].

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[[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasily_Zaytsev Vasily Zaytsev]] pops up and tells his tale of [[Film/EnemyAtTheGates a duel with a German sniper]].sniper]].
** Lt. General Chuikov, commander of the Russian forces in Stalingrad, is also seen on a couple of occasions.


* Viktor Shtrum: A physicist, evacuated to Kazan after the Germans came to the gates of Moscow, still there a year later. Viktor is a Jew, who has to deal with anti-Semitism in Soviet society, while worrying about the more dire threat to his mother, somewhere behind the German lines. Viktor is basically an AuthorAvatar for Vasily Grossman, and the actor is costumed to look just like Grossman.

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* Viktor Shtrum: A physicist, evacuated to Kazan after the Germans came to the gates of Moscow, still there a year later. Viktor is a Jew, who has to deal with anti-Semitism in Soviet society, while worrying about the more dire threat to his mother, somewhere behind the German lines. Although he is married, he's taken a fancy to Maria Ivanovo, the attractive wife of one of his colleagues. Viktor is basically an AuthorAvatar for Vasily Grossman, and the actor is costumed to look just like Grossman.


* Captain Grekov: Commanding officer in a house at the front lines of Stalingrad, which is being used as a fortress against the Germans. At the start of the series, he welcomes Katya, a pretty young radio operator who attracts a lot of attention from all the soldiers in the house.

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* Captain Grekov: Commanding officer in a house House #6 at the front lines of Stalingrad, which is being used as a fortress against the Germans. At the start of the series, he welcomes Katya, a pretty young radio operator who attracts a lot of attention from all the soldiers in the house.


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* BuxomIsBetter: A lively discussion among the horny soldiers of House #6 about Katya includes one soldier insisting that he likes big breasts, and that Katya does not seem to have such.


* ManOnFire

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* ManOnFireManOnFire: A whole armored personnel carrier of Men On Fire, as one Soviet sniper hits a flamethrower's pack, setting a whole squad of Germans ablaze.


* Yevgenia: Lyudmila's sister. Married to Commissar Grymov, but they separated shortly before the outbreak of the war. She was evacuated from Moscow to Kuibyshev in 1941, and is working in a garment factory.

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* Yevgenia: Yevgenia (Zhenya): Lyudmila's sister. Married to Commissar Grymov, but they separated shortly before the outbreak of the war. She was evacuated from Moscow to Kuibyshev in 1941, and is working in a garment factory.
factory. She has a lover, Col. Novikov, serving in the South Urals.


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* HistoricalDomainCharacter: [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasily_Zaytsev Vasily Zaytsev]] pops up and tells his tale of [[Film/EnemyAtTheGates a duel with a German sniper]].


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* ManOnFire


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* ObstructiveBureaucrat: Zhenya has enormous difficulties with a bureaucrat who won’t give her a residency permit in Kuibyshev, seemingly out of sheer dickishness.

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