The 40th Anniversary Parade in Moscow. Red Square during a parade. Soviet dignitaries stand at reviewing point. Marshal Rodion Malinovsky, the USSR Defense Minister, salutes from moving car. Civilian spectators stand on the street. Marshal Rodion Malinovsky steps out from the car. Malinovsky speaks on microphone. Russian naval and infantry troops in review. Troops march with twin guns. Missile similar to NIKE towed in parade. People applaud. Giant missile towed in parade, another giant missile in the background. People applaud. St Basil's Cathedral on Red Square. Parade passes with picture of Lenin. Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev, Marshal K Y Voroshilov and Mao Tse-tung wave. Girl athletes parade. Globe of world with flashing lights, a sputnik in orbit is carried in parade. Balloon is released
The German Army invades Soviet Russia. A map of Soviet Russia, showing cities of Kiev and Odessa. Snow covered roads in Russia. German army vehicles move along the snow covered roads. Scene from First World War, of German General Paul von Hindenburg and his deputy, General Erich Friedrich Wilhelm Ludendorff, leading procession of officials and officers across a railroad train platform. Lieutenant General Helmuth von Pannwitz, Cossack Cavalry Commander, on horseback in a public square. Cossack troops talk and laugh on the streets. German troops on the march. German commanders review troops occupying a city (Odessa, 1918?) What appears to be a baroque-style cathedral in background. Occupying German troops parade through streets of city. German soldiers on guard at a large building entrance. A sign on a building reads in German 'German Commander'.
Communists march on Moscow street, carrying rifles.Russian military personnel load ammunition, and a French 75 artillery piece, on a flat bed railroad car. Russian woman talks on telephone, outdoors. View, from onboard open rail car, as it proceeds. Flanked by Communist flag, Vladimir Lenin gives a speech from balcony of a building. Flat bed rail car carrying French 75 artillery piece with Communist troops sitting around and on top of it. View from open rail cars filled with Communist troops. Communist leaders with large stars on their hats. Communist troops line up beside their rail cars at a depot. A band leads Communist marchers. Men ride horses.Crowds walk to assemble in Red Square. A band of muscians plays while holding sheet music in their hands. Vladimir Lenin converses, on podium, with another Communist leader dressed in leather. Russian women and boys read Communist flyer. Lenin speaks to crowd. Behind him is statue of figure in toga, with scroll over left arm while right arm holds aloft a palm branch.Communists parade in Red Square, as Lenin looks on. A glimpse of Russian troops parading in Red Square in 1957.
Faces of ordinary Russian workers in 1957. Historic footage of Russian leader Vladimir Lenin giving a speech circa 1917. Scene of cheering Russian crowd, including soldiers interspersed waving rifles with fixed bayonets. Another cheering crowd, without any troops mixed in. Men wave their hands and their caps. A nighttime rally in street. Illuminated monument. Leaders stand in moving vehicle as surrounding crowd cheers. Fixed bayonets reflected in partial light