A collective monograph on the history of the Victory of the Soviet people in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 was prepared as part of the work of the Joint Working Group of Historians of the Russian Federation and the Republic of Kazakhstan. The authors of the book are leading historians, archivists, museum workers from Russia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan. The experience of multilateral work with scientists from different countries using data from various national archives and collections, different projections of the perception of the movement of people, ideas, the interweaving of the fate of those who fought and those for whom they fought, gives a new angle for a more detailed look at the Great Patriotic War from 2021