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so, this is russia-24, we continue to talk about the main thing for today. so, the year that marked the eightieth anniversary of the victory in the battle of stalingrad is coming to an end, but a new documentary film that will be on our air now, timed to coincide with this date and that. that 80 years ago, at the peak of that battle, diplomatic relations between the soviet union and cuba were first established. exactly 80 years ago , soviet ambassador andrei gromyka arrived in havana. there is one more date: 60 years ago , fidel castro arrived in stalingrad-volgograd. so, next on our air is a new and unusual film, and just such mysticism in the relations between moscow and govana. the film is unusual because it has two leads at once, it is a joint production.

viva la amistad entre los pueblos soviéticos y el pueblo cubano.

this will be an unusual film, yes, for the eightieth anniversary of the victory in the battle of staligrad, but an unusual one about what kind of surroundings it is a little later, but you already guessed correctly that abroad in the light of cabaret, dancing, rhythms, cigars we will have cuba, the very it was no coincidence that we started showing the famous cuban in volgograd, so... another date: exactly 60 years ago, in sixty- three, fidel undertook a grand tour throughout the soviet union. we then stood up in defense of the cuban revolution and gave it massive help. but when fidel arrived in volgograd to the sites of the stalingrad battles, the symbolism was not even double or triple, but multiple. so, today we have the great patriotic war, stalingrad and cuba. under a microscope.

the co-host of today's film , nadezhda kuleshova, dances so deftly to cuban rhythms on the volga embankment. now she has the floor.

from the history of russian-cuban relations, for example, during the period of the great patriotic war, the great patriotic war, no, on this issue i will frankly say that, well, no, i don’t know, but it was during the battle of stalingrad that the cubans became the first in latin america to restore the war to diplomatic relations with our country, here you go, it was then that such iconic soviet diplomats as... gromyka and maxim letvinov visited cuba for the first time, and this cuba was the first to provide then we will receive massive help. but now we are already together. do you know where? this is the moscow museum of medicine. now we will have the first example of how cuba helped us during the great patriotic war. as you may have already guessed, this is a drill. and here it is

x-ray device. and here there are also microscopes, all of them are model years, all of this came to the soviet union as part of deliveries from the uk and the usa. what does cuba also have to do with this, you ask? look: we are in havana, cuba, from where those same microscopes came to the soviet union, well, more precisely, they came from america under lend-lease for money, so the cubans bought american microscopes with their own money and sent them to the soviet union as a gift . and most of the parcels to our country came from cuba during the stalingrad battles. here in moscow we will exchange impressions and come up with, for example, why the cubans were so worried about the outcome of the battle on the volga so far from them, why they were

grateful to the red army and why we can be grateful to them. this film is also an opportunity to talk about the fact that at all times there was some kind of if between russia and cuba. it was built for the home fifa world cup in 2018, but...

she was there, she was at that stadium, by the way, what did you say, what passion did they have for him? listened. arthur dzhaginov is responsible for one very special repository in volgograd, which includes a record with the cuban anthem labaya mesa. the way arthur literally jumped up at the sounds of this anthem proves that he has great reverence for that part of world history when in 1956 fidel castro, his brother raul, camillos, ernesta chaguevara and so on landed from the yacht granma in eastern cuba further, in order to

overthrow the dictatorship of batisto by january fifty-nine, to establish a revolutionary power at the side of the united states, which has become a faithful friend and ally of the ussr. independence, being the last colony in 1868, cuba declared a course towards spain on the continent, which had already achieved, yes, had already achieved independence, only cuba and...

loved ones remained, well, for example, churchie, he was addicted to cigars here from govan , but he spoke very skeptically about cuba’s prospects for independence, they don’t really like him here, but the russian... there were volunteers in that war of independence back in the 19th century, and even when yuri alekseevich gagarin came here, but again even before that era in havana got there yet one of our eminent compatriots, now we’ll explain everything about him.

in 1917, cuba broke off relations with russia, but mayakovsky ends up here like a passenger on an ocean liner in transit for just

a few hours, but that’s enough for him , so that if he takes a look around the world in an instant, a paradise country, a country that’s right, there are flamingos standing under a palm tree on a leg, calario is blooming all over vedado, sergey, what is vedado? vedado is a district in havana, by the way, my mistake was made here, because it is a masculine word, and he writes everything as feminine. i think we are we can forgive the poet such a small inaccuracy, all the more important that he became the first soviet author who, in principle, wrote about cuba, which would later be connected with so many things, to be completely precise, he was the first eminent soviet author who turned out to be, so they wrote about her , he talks about, in the era of everything... chess, back in the soviet union the name of such a cuban as the grandmaster, world

chess champion, jose raul capablanca, was rumored, this word mirador means an observation deck, new, very beautiful, in havana named it the name, here it is, this new platform, but the truth is the beauty of the name of capablanca, in the soviet union his name was so popular that ilyev and petrov, nothing more. without explaining, they put it into the mouth of astap bender when he arrived at the chess club of the city of vasyuki, where, as we all remember, he was carried away, the international basyukin tournament in 1927, the arrival of chigorin, the stelnitsa of lasker, olekhin, khasar, coablanca, well, so on case, we must remember one more film, a joint soviet-cuban one, about capablanca himself and generally speaking, his wife should not be invited to the screenwriters of this film.

good, well, i mean my husband’s family, so i was received very well, larusa is everywhere, my popular, very popular, we’ll stay in volgograd for now, fidel castra rusa and his companions visited the famous mamayev kurgan. on the mamayev kurgan in volgograd, fidel castro met the sculptor vuchetich, who was then just beginning to build the famous memorial, for example, the motherland monument was just under construction. and here in volgograd with fidel there were many meetings with workers. this is us in the hall

of military labor glory of the administration of the volgograd region. here on the walls are the names of volgograd residents, holders of gold stars, including sirkov af. joiner at the red october plant. including him, with alexander firsovich sirkov, for whom, by the way, the great vuchetich himself created a bust. these are definitely them in cuba. here in cuba, sirkov was invited not just to fidel castro, but to his naval residence. and then in her autobiography it was called “wake me up early.” tserkov remembered fidel as in in many ways, a very strong and dexterous person. together with fidel, we swam in the bay, dived, played tag, just

like the boys on the volga. since childhood, i knew how to swim well, but it was difficult to catch him. he caught me more often. amazing. the water was warm, clean, light , to be completely precise, the first volga among the new leaders of the revolutionary cube was not fidel, but chagivara, he arrived in volgograd in the sixtieth year, that is, 3 years before castre’s visit, you see us? this is a television tower on mamayev kurgan, where our television and radio company is located. let's take a look at the editorial office. this is another photo of chegi vara, definitely taken in volgograd. pay

attention to these columns on this chandelier. the photo was taken here at the tsaritsyn opera, which is now a theater, and for many years there was a palace of culture named after lenin of the red october metallurgical plant, that is, the recreation center of those same carpenters. this word “joiners” will be useful to us again and again today, but now it’s not about them, but about the fact that, oddly enough, the cuban story in volgograd is about the great patriotic war. and the paradox is the fact is that it was in the panorama museum of the battle of stalingrad, where the curator already familiar to us works, that one of the things happened. the month of september, aid is being collected in uruguay for the howling stalingrad. what kind of help was that? monetary. with the money raised from philanthropists like argentines and brazilians, they bought

food packages for stalingrad, among other things. in our previous film , stewed elephant intelligence, we showed that he is truly famous. pictures already in the liberated, victorious stalingrad the day after the end at the battle of stalingrad on february 3, a red banner was hoisted, the banner of victory over stalingrad, based on this photograph , a whole picture was painted on that cube and sent to stalingrad, this is the square of fallen fighters, that’s right, the square of fallen fighters,

the legendary department store building, the place of captivity paulus. dimy stalingrad, the cemetery of german fascism. this inscription was already made in russia, in the soviet union, no, it was sent like that, that is, it was signed by a resident of havana in russian. even though we don't know for sure what kind of havana artist sent his painting to stalingrad in 1945, but in 1962, when volgograd steelworkers arrived here, they were offered to get acquainted not only with the nature of cuba, but with the nightlife of havana. and this is cabaret, or tropicana, or...

we also tried not to gasp, not to close our eyes. the soviet and cuban worldviews were indeed different and different, amazingly, but as we have already begun to find out, there are striking coincidences in history, in feelings. this is in havana, the national library of the republic of cuba. went here sergei, to sort out the files of govan newspapers for the period not yet of the battle of stalingrad of 42-4, but of the first days of the weeks after hitler’s attack on the ussr in the summer of forty -one. and in moscow everyone knows the former leninka, now.

the soviet pact of struggle against hitler, but a group of young people attracted special attention; they wore a cage in which a dog was sitting,

a swastika and the slogan were hung on it: behind the shower of fascist dogs. during the second world war , cubans, of course, identified with the soviet union, with the great patriotic war with the russian people. let's start with those cubans who were already in moscow through the comintern, and whose children went to soviet schools; we know about three of our compatriots who gave their lives for the soviet union. but they were not the only cubans who went to world war ii, more than 200 cubans fought on various fronts of the allied armies, generally speaking, and cuba itself hosted. direct participation in the war, german submarines sank many ships here, allied ships, merchant ships, cuban ships, cuban merchant ships, matzanilla, santiago de cuba, many cuban sailors died. in memory of

those sailors, this monument is in the very center of havana. true, those cuban ships did not go to the soviet union itself, but to the united states, where cuban goods were reloaded onto northern convoys. the question is, when will non- mediated, direct relations with govana-moscow arise? so, in the midst of the battle of stalingrad. still doesn’t know at all how it will turn out, cuba became the first latin american republic to restore diplomatic relations with our country during the war, and this is the same republic whose constitutional convention, literally a year and a half earlier in the forties, condemned the soviet union for the war with finland, generally made it clear that there would be no further relations with moscow. well, here’s another question: in 1941 there were no diplomatic relations between the ussr and cuba, but as we have already found out, moscow, news. well, and most importantly, what is it about the ussr with its such

a different culture and mentality that those same cuban sailors were so worried about in distant cuba, and what strategic cuban goods were actually brought to the ussr? well, about this later in our film. in the gorodishchi district of the volgograd region , nadezhda went to where the hottest battles on the outskirts of stalingrad took place in the summer and autumn of '42. the positions were found using aerial photography, german aerial photography from the period of the battle of stalingrad.

we have an artillery canopy in which the gun was placed, let’s see, well, our signal is deep enough, now we’ll see , we can already hear that it’s on the iron, and a shovel will hide , yes, it’s not yet visible visually, some kind of structure, as if the wall of something - yes, no wall, from some kind of frame. in addition to this rather large metal part, we find something else. here, by the way, the cartridge case from the mosin rifle, well, 762, it also went to the svt, to the machine guns, to the maxim, the dikterel machine gun. the sleeve is curious, steel. but what about the material with which the sleeve is usually associated, what about brass, that is , a copper-based alloy, where the main alloying component is zinc, also with non-ferrous metals, well... we saved non-ferrous metal so that the ferrous metal used in the sleeves does not rusted, as if that would make it cheaper.

so it was, the americans tried to land troops to suppress the cuban revolution, but were repulsed, and for the tenth anniversary of this victory , such a souvenir bag of the historical place bleichiron was released - this is cuban stalingrad, the former presidential palace, now the museum of the revolution, this is where the soviet statue was installed in havana self-propelled gun now we will come closer and read what

is written on the memorial plaque. it is written like this: during the blast, fidel personally accurately hit one of the american transports with this soviet self-propelled gun. soviet tanks and self-propelled guns the cubans were enemies in the sixties, in the forties our soldiers in stalingrad used what came through landlease through the usa, but in fact from cuba, which is another consideration, an association, now there was clear sand with a beach. but long before sand from the playron beach came to the ussr, cuban sugar sand came to the ussr, but by the way, there is a popular misconception that white sugar is made from beetroot, and brown sugar is from cane, in reality , cuban sand can be both this and that , it’s all a matter of the degree of purification, and this and that cuba produced a lot of sugar; in fact, that’s what the club was called back then, the sugar bowl of the usa, according to very official

statistics, almost 42.