Prior to the rewriting of history - Russia's war

This was prior to the rewriting of history, albeit during the Cold War. It was also from the era in which the BBC made top-notch documentaries.

The World At War 1973 - Red Star The Soviet Union (1941–1943) - Episode 11

The rise of the Red Army, mobilisation of Soviet production, the Siege of Leningrad, the Soviet partisans and the Battle of Kursk.

Bent on fulfilling Hilter's policy of colonizing Russia, German forces invade subjecting inhabitants of occupied lands to servitude or death. Russians respond with a mass evacuation and scorched earth policy, reestablishing their industrial capacity far to the east. After German forces fail to break Leningrad or to capture Kursk and the surrounding Russian forces Russia goes on the offensive with its military production at full capacity.

The series has 26 episodes. Producer Jeremy Isaacs asked Noble Frankland, then director of the Imperial War Museum, to list fifteen main campaigns of the war and devoted one episode to each.