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Soviet steamer Soyuz Vodnikov returns to the Soviet Union after facing attack by fascist Spanish Nationalist forces.

Soviet Russian steamer Soyuz Vodnikov, also spelled SojusVodnikov (later renamed Kreml’ during 1938), returns to the Soviet Union. Shot up and damaged parts are seen on the deck of the motor tanker ship due to a fascist attack. (The ship had been moving supplies from the Soviet Union into Spanish Morocco, and, on November 13, 1936, it was chased and detained by Spanish Civil War Nationalist forces at Ceuta harbor, on suspicion of delivering arms to the Republican loyalists. It was freed on November 17, 1936, after which it went to Terneuzen, Netherlands for repairs, and then on to the Soviet Union.) The ship is seen nearing a Soviet harbor. Soviet officers on board inspect the ship. The crew members are given a warm welcome on their return. The crew arriving on the harbor dock are welcomed with flower bouquets and hailed for their bravery.

Date: 1936, November
Duration: 50 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675063418
Stalinism after Lenin's death and several people are purged after Moscow Trials and the Great Purge in Russia.

Scenes in the Soviet Union from 1923 to 1938, including the Great Purge in Russia. On March 14, 1923 : A newspaper headline reads 'Lenin Suffers a stroke, Condition is Serious; Announcement Causes a Sensation in Moscow'. On January 21, 1924 : Another newspaper headline reads 'Lenin is Dead'. Bolshevik leader Lenin laid in a coffin. Senior Soviet officials carrying the body of Lenin in a funeral procession through the snow. People watch the funeral procession. Joseph Stalin with an officer. Stalin comes into power after Bolshevik revolutionary Leon Trotsky is forced into an exile. Views of workers pursuing 5-year plan goals: At a railroad train siding building rail infrastructure, with shovels; in logging operations in the snow; in a steel plant. View of coal being transported on conveyer. View of mining operations, with steam shovels filling rail cars. Views of chemical and petroleum facilities. View of hydroelectric power plant turbines and electrical distribution towers and wires. Workers in agriculture, with a truck in a field. Construction workers at large building site. Young machinist working on a lathe in a factory or manufacturing plant. Tailors working in a shop with pictures of Lenin and Stalin on the wall. Steam locomotive pushing train cars including boxcars up a mountain side in Siberia. Time frame of the "Great Executions" during the Great Purge: Soviet "executioner" Nikolai Yezhov and other officers inside a building and footage from the Moscow Trials or sometimes called Moscow Show Trials from 1936 - 1938. Stalin with Bolshevik revolutionaries Lev Kamenev and Grigory Zinoviev who were disposed off during the Great Purge. Scenes of Moscow Trial proceedings, with participants wearing earphones during a trial dealing with alleged conspiracy with Trotsky at the Hotel Bristol in Copenhagen in 1936. Picture of Nikolai Yezhov, who was also purged.

Date: 1930
Duration: 2 min 45 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675066491
Soviet Russia during the first two of its five-year plans, under Joseph Stalin

Views of industrial development projects and activities during first 5-year plan under Joseph Stalin in Soviet Union. Mining activities, with ore being moved on conveyor belts and open rail cars. view upwards toward piping and towers in a petroleum refining plant. Steel plant and open hearth furnace. Turbine deck in a hydroelectric power plant. Electric transmission lines. Farmer irrigating crops with machinery. Workers shoveling grain out of open bed trucks. Apartment houses under construction. A machinist turning metal on a lathe. Factory workers in a room with pictures of Lenin and Stalin on the wall. Freight trains underway (ostensibly to Siberia). Officials visiting a machine shop, during the 2nd Five Year Plan, in 1935. They present worker's medals to Stakhanovites (superior workers). Views of Stakhanovites conversing and comparing medals at a presentation occasion. View of criminal (political) proceedings conducted in the Great Purge (Yezhovshchina) during 1937-38. Photograph of N.I. Yezhov (called Stalin's executioner, by the narrator). Picture of Stalin walking with Felix Dzerzhinsky, Lev Kamenev, and Gregory Zinoviev, Ca. 1925. The latter two images are circled as narrator says they were quickly disposed of after Stalin seized power. View of trials in which persons are accused of plotting with Leon Trotsky, in 1936, at the Hotel Bristol, in Copenhagen (according to narrator, who notes that the hotel was no longer in operation in 1936). More trial scenes. Image of N.I. Yezhov is shown, again, as narrator states that he was purged in 1938, along with other officials.

Date: 1938
Duration: 2 min 17 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675064328
Meeting of the Eighteen-Nation Disarmament Committee at the U.N Palace of Nations, Geneva Switzerland, in 1967

As film starts, the loud sound of jet airplanes is accompanied by views upward of clocks and the control tower at Geneva, Switzerland airport. The flag of the Canton of Geneva and that of Switzerland are displayed in tall flag poles. A jet passenger plane begins its takeoff roll in the background. An observation deck atop the airport building is filled with visitors. A Swissair Boeing 707 passenger plane is taxiing to the ramp after landing. Snow covered mountains fill the background. Narrator says "tomorrow, the 4 year old, 18 Nation Disarmament Conference, co-chaired by the Soviet Union and the United States, will once again, convene." Photographers ready cameras as a mobile stairway moves to the aircraft doorway. Closeups of spectators on the observation deck, including families with children. The American delegate, William C. Foster, Director, United States arms control and disarmament agency, is seen walking away from the airplane, across the airport ramp, accompanied by persons greeting him. Inside a building, Foster is mobbed by surrounding reporters and photographers. An interviewer asks him what is the most important item on the agenda for the United States. He replies: "The achievement of a Non-proliferation Treaty." Newsmen continue to press him about prospects of success in negotiations with the Russians. Scene shifts to the shore of Lake Geneva and the original League of Nations, Palace of Nations building there. Camera pans over the building to a tablet in its wall, memorializing U.S. President Woodrow Wilson, Founder of the League of Nations. View from a high hill overlooking the lake, shows the second home of the League of Nations built in 1936, adjacent to the original building. (It is now the European Headquarters of the United Nations.) Camera pans across the building and its grounds, where a flag and a large sculptured globe of the world are seen. Scene shifts to a parkway with several cars on it. The camera focuses on the shaded building of the Soviet Mission, just off the parkway. In downtown Geneva, the camera focuses on a large building of glass and aluminum, which houses the United States Mission, where the United States Disarmament delegation is headquartered. William C. Foster is seen at a large conference with the delegation staff. Closeup of him and staff members as they consider the best ways to approach the negotiations. Various closeups of Mr. Foster as he works over texts at his desk. He is heard saying: "The important thing is to get complete control of a possible exchange of nuclear weapons on a grand scale." Brief view of Lake Geneva at night. Next, the camera pans downward from the ceiling to the council chamber floor where delegate seats are arranged around a huge table in readiness for the next days activities. It is the next day, and an American flag flutters on the fender of a car carrying William Foster to the Council chamber for the day's session. Closeup of him in the back of the car. The camera also captures scenes outdoors as the car drives along the scenic lake front drive to the Palace of Nations. A daytime view from overlooking hill of the Palace of Nations and Lake Geneva. In the outer hall of the Palace of Nations building, some 200 reporters mill about discussing world events of the day. William Foster's car arrives at a curb and a white-capped officer greets him as he steps from the car. Other delegates, including a woman, are also seen arriving and entering the building. Inside the building, delegates are seen socializing (with many languages heard). Closeup glimpse of Mr. Foster among the group.

Date: 1967
Duration: 5 min 20 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675037570
Joseph Stalin talks with Russian pilots, planes fly over Moscow before WWII.

Soviet Air Forces bi-winged aircraft flying in a star-shaped formation. Stalin talks with Russian pilots. “Russia is strong, he warns,” says the narrator. A group of Russian bombers in flight over the Red Square in Moscow. Soviet paratroopers jumping from Russian planes before WW2.

Date: 1936
Duration: 22 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675079784