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Post-World War II scenes in Communist occupied areas of Europe and Asia

Animated map shows thrust of German forces during invasion of Soviet Russia in World War 2. Stalingrad is highlighted as a turning point. Another animated map shows Soviet territorial gains at the end of the war, as narrator discusses the disposition of those places and their respective populations, as in Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia. He also discusses Soviet zones of occupation. Animated map shows "Iron Curtain." Soviet troops on parade. Soviet ZSU-57-2 self-propelled anti-aircraft guns (SPAAG) on display during a parade in 1945. A stadium filled with people in Soviet-occupied East Germany, in 1949. Friedrich Wilhelm Reinhold Pieck, the first President of the German Democratic Republic, is seen in the stands. Young East German women parade in traditional costumes, clapping their hands, in the stadium. Waterfront scenes show Soviet trade activities with post-war occupied entities. Scenes of conflict as Chinese communist forces expel Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist Chinese forces (ROC) from mainland China to Formosa (Taiwan), in 1949. A litter-borne casualty and a refugee mother and small girl are seen.

Date: 1949
Duration: 1 min 55 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675064331
Winston Churchill arrives at Livadia Palace in Crimea, Soviet Union for the Yalta Conference during World War II.

Allied leaders at the Yalta Conference in Crimea, Soviet Union during World War II. Interiors of Livadia Palace in Crimea. Officials confer and look at papers. British Prime Minister Winston Churchill arrives at the palace. Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin also arrives. Churchill's daughter Sarah Churchill in an army uniform as she talks to Anne Boettiger and Kathy Harriman.

Date: 1945, February 10
Duration: 1 min 6 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675065772
Molotov, Stettinius and Eden during the Yalta Conference in Crimea, Soviet Union during World War II.

Allied leaders meet at the Yalta Conference in Crimea, Soviet Union during World War II. U.S. Secretary of State Edward Stettinius, Soviet Commissar for Foreign Affairs Vyachselav Molotov and British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden pose at an airfield. Stettinius, Soviet Deputy Commissar for Foreign Affairs Andrey Gromyko and Harry Hopkins talk and smile. U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union W. Averell Harriman, Harry Hopkins and Stettinius at the airfield. U.S. Army General George C. Marshal with Harriman, Molotov and others outside a tent. U.S. Navy Admiral Ernest J. King greets Russian officers.

Date: 1945, February 3
Duration: 2 min 11 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675065812
United States and Russian troops in Germany after World war 2; division of West Germany and East Germany

Bomb damaged and ruined buildings of Nazi Germany in 1945, including the Reichstag. Nazi Eagle symbol of Third Reich pulled down from building and crashes to the ground at end of World War 2. United States Army of occupation marches into city as German population lines sidewalks and watches them parade. Sign on a shop reads "Gaststatte Schosser." Many buildings in view are damaged or destroyed from bomb attacks during World War 2. American soldiers occupying German give candy to German children who at first hide from them. Nazi leaders including Hermann Göring, Rudolf Hess, Joachim von Ribbentrop, and Wilhelm Keitel, seen on trial in the Nuremberg war crimes trials. German people struggling to rebuild. women and children trying to gather wood from stumps of trees for fuel. A woman sawing a log. Women and children scraping food from inside trash cans and refuse bins, to stay alive during scarcity and shortages after the war. Americans providing food assistance and feeding German children in relief lines. Close up of a smiling boy as he receives food or drink. Soviet Russian Army soldiers occupying East Berlin and marching in formation. Russians removing an industrial lathe and other machinery and tools from Germany as the Soviet Union continues to strip Germany of resources after the war. A map of Germany and Berlin seen with divided regions as American, British, French and Soviet zones. Views of empty streets and heavily damaged buildings of Berlin after the end of the war. Children play amidst the desolation and destruction in East Berlin. View of Kammergericht, Headquarters of the Allied Control Council. Leaders seen meeting inside include American General Joseph T. McNarney, French General Marie Pierre Kœnig (Marie-Pierre Koenig), Soviet General Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov,. British Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery. View of Spandau Prison guarded by troops of occupying powers. Soviet and American troops drill and march on the grounds of Spandau Prison. An American soldier relieves a Soviet soldier at a watch post. Soviet blockade of West Berlin begins in June 1948. View of a man shutting down power in a power plant and lights going dark in Berlin. Blackout conditions in Berlin during the blockade. Germans plant vegetables in city to survive. Germans exchange goods in black market setting. A man plants vegetables in view of the Brandenburg Gate. The Berlin Airlift operations underway. U.S. Air Force C-54 aircraft flying low and arriving in Berlin, bringing supplies to West Berlin. C-97 landing. U.S. military forces unloading relief supplies and food from airlift aircraft. American C-47s and C-54s in the Berlin Airlift. Soap and milk being unloaded from airplanes. German children gather on a hill and watch low-flying American airlift planes as they approach to land at Tempelhof Aerodrome in Berlin. An Air Force airman throws a package out of the aircraft. It is a very small parachute with candy that drops from the American airplane to the waiting children. Children run to retrieve it and they share and eat the candy. Blockade is lifted in 1949 and rebuilding of West Berlin resumes. View of railroad tracks being re-linked, a locomotive running on tracks, and trains cross between East and West Berlin. Ships loading goods onto trains for Berlin. A coal processing factory running again in Germany. German workers producing industrial parts and goods again in production factories. West German construction workers rebuilding structures in West Germany. German people cast votes, establishing Federated German Republic (West Germany). Figures seen include U.S. General Alfred B. Gruenther with Konrad Adenauer, President of the new German Republic, together in Bonn, Germany. Soviet Russian troops marching on parade in East Germany. East German workers rioting in 1953, in protest of increased production quotas in Communist controlled East Germany. Soviet forces in armored vehicles patrol the streets and disperse the crowd. A large electronic billboard banner flashes West German messages and propaganda to those who can view it in East Berlin. Citizen refugees from East Germany arriving in a processing center in West Germany, carrying bags and luggage. East German refugees laying on the ground on blankets in a crowded immigration processing center of West Germany. A woman irons clothes in the immigration center, while a child plays with dolls.

Date: 1949
Duration: 7 min 36 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675040632
Highlights of 1949 including Berlin airlift, formation of West Germany, Cardinal Mindszenty imprisonment, Marshal Tito, Communist China, and American communists.

Berlin airlift during Cold War in Germany. German people gather on the street. The Berlin airlift, 'Operation Vittles' lifts food and supplies to overcome the blockade by Russia, Soviet Union. A Berlin Airlift airplane in flight. Vehicles on the street. Men near a sign board. Scene changes to early meeting of the West German government in Bonn with Conrad Adenauer and Theodor Heuss speaking and taking oaths. Next scene shows newspaper articles about Communist expansion. View of Cardinal József Mindszenty of Hungary who narrator says became a martyr for his faith. People in Rome praying for the exiled Cardinal at a service conducted by Pope Piux XII. Next scene shows closeup of Marshal Tito of Yugoslavia with other military leaders, and flags of Yugoslavia and Soviet Union flying together side-by-side. Military buildup in Yugoslavia during strain with Soviet Union under Tito. Military Trucks fill a bridge. Next scene shows a victory parade in Shanghai China by Communist soldiers loyal to Mao Zedong. View of the Chairman of the Nationalist Government of China, Chiang Kai Shek, exiled to Taiwan. A flag of Communist China flying over docks at a port. Scene changes to view of the Foley Square Federal Courthouse in New York, where 11 members of the Communist Party of the United States (CPUSA) were on trial for conspiracy to overthrown the government by violent means (violating the Smith Act). The defendants are shown standing together (Stachel, Potash, Winter, Davis, Gates, Green, Thompson, Winston, Dennis, Hall, Williamson, and Foster). Close-up view of Judge Harold Medina. After conviction the group of men is shown climbing into a U.S. Marshal paddy wagon for transport to prison.

Date: 1949, December
Duration: 2 min 12 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675051641
Exteriors and interiors of the Vorontsov Palace at Alupka, Crimea, Soviet Union.

The Vorontsov Palace in Alupka, Crimea, Soviet Union (Voronstov Palace Dvortsovoye Hwy, 10 Alupka, 98676 Crimea). Exteriors of the Vorontsov Palace. Tourists sit on benches in the palace garden. Busts lined up inside the palace. A fountain in front of the palace. White marble lions at the entrance. People come down the steps of the southern facade of the palace. A mermaid statue.

Date: 1930
Duration: 1 min 19 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675065775