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Regional issues are discussed by world leaders during the Moscow Summit

Regional issues are discussed during the Moscow Summit on Soviet troops in Afghanistan, the Iran-Iraq War, Middle East Peace, and Nicaragua cease fire. Soviet Union army troops in Afghanistan. A Russian tank is stationed. A camel wearing a mask in the foreground. Soviet soldiers marching. United States President Ronald Reagan speaks on the Soviet Union's decision on the removal of the soldiers from Afghanistan. “The next few months will be no time for complacency, no time to sit back and congratulate ourselves. The Soviets have rarely before--and not at all in more than three decades--left a country, once occupied. They have often promised to leave, but rarely in their history, and then only under pressure from the West, have they actually done it.” President Reagan said. Soviet Army trucks and tanks are driven. Soviet soldiers patrolling on streets in a town in Afghanistan. A United States officer in a press conference. A Soviet aircraft in flight dropping supplies. Soviet soldiers on tanks. Scene changes to Iranian and Iraqi soldiers as they fire artillery, rockets, and from tanks during the Iran-Iraq War. Scene of United Nations meeting in progress with George Schultz representing the United States. Missile fired by United States Navy ship at Iranian target. View of firefighting operations and wreckage of Iranian oil platforms following U.S. missile attack in Operation Nimble Archer on 19 October 1987. The U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz visits places in the Middle East, working to convince Arabs and the Israelis about a peace agreement. Scenes in Nicaragua, as a cease fire with the contra rebels is signed by Nicaraguan Defense Minister Humberto Ortega, on March 23 in Sapoa. Figures seen include Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega, Joao Baena Soares, (General Secretary of the Organization of American States), Cardinal Miguel Obando Y Bravo, and Alfredo Cesar, director of Nicaraguan Resistance.

Date: 1988
Duration: 3 min 15 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675032114
Officials speak on the issues of human rights and religious freedom as interest groups protest in the Soviet Union and the U.S.

The US-USSR Moscow Summit on Human rights in Moscow, Soviet Union. U.S. president Ronald Reagan speaks on issues relating to Human rights. Other officials seated in front. He speaks about the right to immigrate and travel. View of the Kremlin in Moscow. U.S. Secretory of State George Pratt Shultz speaks about strategic arms reductions in light of the weapons race. The White house press secretary Marlin Fitzwater at a press conference. The board reads 'Department of State'. Exteriors of the building. View of protesters permitted to demonstrate in the Soviet Union indicating some improvement in conditions. In Washington DC, citizens march on streets demonstrating for the freedom of Soviet Jews. The soviet scholar Peter Reddaway speaks about the reforms and highlights reforms and changing Soviet policy on open-ended internment of mental health patients. People pray inside a church in the Soviet Union. George Weigel, the president of the James Madison Foundation, speaks of importance of religious freedom in the Soviet union on a news panel. Weigel states that religious freedom is a key test of Glasnost and Perestroika. Exterior view of the Ukrainian Catholic National Shrine of the Holy Family under construction in Washington DC, built by Ukrainian American Catholics. People in the Soviet Union protest, marching on a street and holding signs and pickets. A large military parade in the Soviet Union in Red Square.

Date: 1988
Duration: 4 min 19 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675032117
General Secretary Gorbachev of the Soviet Union extends New Year greetings to people of the United States.

Opening scene shows closeup of a large illuminated Red Star displayed during New Year holidays atop Nikolskaya Tower in the Kremlin. It is seen again, from Red Square, along with Kremlin wall. A light snow covers evergreen trees in foreground. The General Secretary of the communist party of Soviet Union Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev speaks on world net telecast in Moscow, Soviet Union. He begins his remarks by saying: "Ladies and gentleman, friends, as we celebrate the New Year, I am glad to address the citizens of the United States of America and to convey to you season's greetings and best wishes from all Soviet people." He speaks of the improving interactions and relations between "our two peoples." Among other things, he states: "Human life is equally priceless, whether in the Soviet Union, the United States, or in any other country. So, let us spare no effort to affirm peace on Earth. He finishes by saying: "In concluding this New Year address to the people of the United States of America, I wish peace, happiness, and joy to every American family. A happy New Year to all of you."

Date: 1988, January 1
Duration: 5 min 40 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675032119
Treaty signing between Romania and Soviet Union. Petru Groza, Vyachesla Molotov, Ana Pauker, Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej and Joseph Stalin in Moscow

Signing of a twenty year Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation, and Mutual Assistance between the Soviet Union and Romanian Peoples Republic. Dr. Petru Groza, signs for the Romanian Peoples Republic, making Romania the first People's Republic to sign such an agreement with the Soviet Union. Among those present are: Soviet dictator, Joseph Stalin, Soviet foreign minister Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov, Romanian foreign minister Ana Pauker, Romanian Communist leader Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, and Joseph Stalin, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union's Central Committee. The official keeps a pen in a stand. The dignitaries move out of the room.

Date: 1948, February 4
Duration: 8 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675032177
75th birthday of Mikhail Prishvin, Moscow.

Russian writer Mikhail Prishvin (February 4, 1873 - January 16, 1954, Moscow) is shown hunting and writing. The writer is celebrating his 75th birth day with his admirers and other writer. 4 February 1945

Date: 1948, February
Duration: 1 min 33 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Russian
Clip: 65675032342
German Wehrmacht Generals and their forces surrender in Soviet Union after the Battle of Stalingrad (WW2)

Soviet troops in fierce fighting with German forces at Stalingrad in World War 2. They fire numerous artillery field pieces. Soviet infantry stooping low as they advance. Soviet soldiers firing machine gun.Soviet infantry advancing in courtyard of apartment building, past body of fallen German soldier. German troops abandoning a concrete building behind one carrying a white flag of surrender. German Generals surrendering, walk past body of a fallen Soviet soldier on the frozen ground. German Lieutenant General Alexander Edler von Daniels, Commander of the German 376th Division, salutes as he surrenders. German Lieutenant General Werner Sanne, Commander of the German 100th Jäger Division, is seen in White winter gear, as he walks to surrender. Romanian Brigadier General Demetriou, Commander of the 20th Romanian Infantry, salutes as he surrenders. Five more German generals standing in a group. Closeup of German XIV Corps commander, General Helmuth Schloemer(Schlömer). Lieutenant General Max Pfeffer, Commander, German 297th Infantry Division. Lieutenant General Renoldi, Medical Chief of the 6th German Army. German Field Marshal Friedrich Wilhelm Ernst Paulus, commander of all Axis forces at Stalingrad, is seen stepping from a staff car and entering the wooden building headquarters of Soviet General N. Shumilov, commander of the 64th Soviet Army. He takes a seat at a table surrounded with by Soviet officers and listens as Shumilov reviews his record. Scene changes to regular German Wehrmacht (Army) troops, outdoors in the cold, along with some of their officers. Long lines of surrendered German soldiers making their way in the snow down slopes and up hills, on their way to POW camps. View of German prisoner lacking adequate footwear during the march. The Red Soviet flag being waved from balcony of a tall building, as line of German prisoners of war proceed below. The line extends as far as can be seen. (Note: At TC: 00:27-39 an apartment house and courtyard is seen in Stalingrad South. As of 2015, it is reported to be the House of Specialists for the Hydrolytic Plant, and still stands west of the intersection of Barrikadnaya & Rozlovskaya Streets.)

Date: 1943, January 31
Duration: 4 min 24 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675033497