<i>&gt; Especially check out episodes 5, 9, and 11 to see how the Soviet people, not the army, beat the Nazis.</i><p>It&#x27;s worth noting that the DVD release of <i>The World at War</i> starts each episode with some remarks from the series producer about its production, and for those episodes he alludes to them having to agree to soft-soap parts of the story of the USSR at war that skewed against the regime&#x27;s approved line in order to get access to interview subjects and rarely seen archival footage.<p>Which is not to knock the series in any way, it&#x27;s a fantastic work of documentary filmmaking -- just to note that the episodes dealing with the Soviet war experience should be approached with a skeptical eye.