The collective monograph examines the actual and poorly studied facts of the participation of countries and peoples of the East (Asia and North Africa) in World War II. Along with this, the central place is occupied by the role of the Soviet Union in the war, the price of its victory in the Great Patriotic War as an integral part of the Second World War. The authors relate to the issue of ethnic units in the Red Army and a number of other insufficiently known stories. The book contains documentary photographs, drawings, cartoons of the war years, contains stories about the fate of servicemen, prisoners, emigrants, used data from previously classified archives. The monograph is designed for scientists, teachers, graduate students, students, as well as a wide range of readers interested in the problems of the largest war in the history of mankind.