In 1961, when the African National Congress, an organization whose purpose was to fight against the apartheid regime, was threatened by the increasingly repressive policies of the South African government, it resorted to armed struggle and created uMkhonto weSizwe (MK), its paramilitary wing, led by Nelson Mandela.

In June 1941, Nazi troops invaded the USSR. It's an “ideological and racial war”, says Adolf Hitler. Marshal Zhukov stopped the Germans at the gates of Moscow. But in July 1942, the Führer decided to head for the Caucasus, where there was oil. A modern industrial city, 80% of Stalingrad was raised to the ground in just a few days of bombing. But the Soviet Generalissimo and Chairman of the State Defense Committee, Stalin, decided not to evacuate the city. A single motto: “Not one more step backwards”. [episode 1/3 of series]