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Italian battleships and other warships carry Russian crews underway at a port in Augusta, Italy.
Italian battleships and other warships carry Russian crews underway at a port in Augusta, Italy. The ships leave for Soviet ports. Italian Naval flag flutters aboard a battleship.
General strike and rioting in Rome, Italy
General strike in Rome Italy. Strikers marching into Rome, carrying signs. The Reparto Celere, a special jeep-riding riot squad of the Italian police, disperse rioters using jeeps, clubs, and a light tank. A Reparto Celere Autoblindo AB41 armored car in Via delle Mantellate. Several views of rioters being beaten with clubs. Some are apprehended.
Troops march onto a military carrier ship in a harbor in Rome, Italy.
Military troops with gear board a ship along a pier in a harbor in Rome, Italy.. A military carrier ship in the harbor. Troops in uniform gather. They walk on a wooden pier towards the ship. The soldiers on the deck of the ship wave.
Pope Pius XII warns the world against communism during Easter in Vatican City, Italy.
Pope Pius XII appears before a huge crowd during Easter in Vatican City, Italy. Huge crowds gathered at Saint Peter’s Square (00120 Vatican City) for the Easter papal audience. The Obelisk stands in the middle of the square. Easter ceremonies take place. Crowd gathered to hear the Pope's Easter message. Pope Pius XII, formerly known as Eugenio Pacelli, warns the world against communism during his speech. Pope Pius XII raises his arms and blesses the crowds. Crowd cheers as Pope is raised on his chair. Pope Pius XII blesses the crowds while raised on chair by the Papal Swiss Guards.
American officials and Pope Pius XII welcome the ships that bring first European Recovery Program shipments
First European Recovery Program shipments under the Marshall Plan reach Italy and are unloaded. Priests read out prayer from scriptures. Pope Pius XII along with American officials welcome the shipments.
Life under Soviet domination in Eastern Europe following World War II
Legislators entering a hall in Czechoslovakia, in 1948. Inside,an image of the Small Coat of Arms of the Republic of Czechoslovakia (1920) dominates the scene. New scene shows Gustav Husak, acting Prime Minister, delivering an address urging support for the Communist Party. The next sequence shows violent Communist-led demonstrations, as armed trade unionists riot in the Prague streets, attacking the offices of the political opposition. Police attempt to restore order. On February 25, 1948, the communists achieve a Czechoslovak coup d'état. On February 27th, Czech President, Edvard Benes, receives a delegation including communist Premier Klement Gottwald and the 12 new members of the cabinet, at the Presidential Palace. He is seen signing documents accepting the communist cabinet. Change of scene shows Czech Foreign Minister, Jan Masaryk, giving a speech rejecting the change. (He remained in office, but died under suspicious circumstances on On March 10, 1948.) View of Masaryk in his casket. Mourners at his funeral.The Czech Parliament Building with flag at half staff. President Benes seen strolling, using a cane, accompanied by his wife, Hana Benes, in the garden of their summer home, Benesova vila, in Sezimovo Usti. Narrator notes that he refused to sign a new constitution drawn up by the communists. He died of natural causes at his villa on September 3, 1948. Scenes of his funeral and of him in his casket. Views of Benes' state funeral, with mourners lining the streets. View of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. Narrator describes circumstances using Churchill's term "Iron Curtain." A communist parade in an Eastern European city. A person who was roughed up on the street. View of East German uprising in 1953, being suppressed with Soviet tanks. Uprising in Poland in 1955 being put down by local police and Russian soldiers. Polish musicians playing and examples of Polish political cartoons permitted under relaxed communist rule.
