Chapayev is with Us

Short propaganda film released to raise army morale during first months of war Civil War hero and Red Army commander Vasily Chapayev killed in 1919 by White Army officers then drowned in the Ural river swims ashore but its the summer of 1941 Chapayev asks who are Soviets fighting off this time hears that its Germans once again and then gives an inspiring speech He is played by Boris Babochkin who famously portrayed Chapayev in 1934 biopic