Soviet civilians in a factory in the Soviet Union during World War II. Soviet men and women work at machines inside the factory. Water being poured over a machine. Women work on various machines.
Soviet civilians at a ceremony in the Soviet Union during World War II. Soviet officials and collective farm workers seated inside a room for the ceremony. Soviet women farm workers being presented mementos. Other collective farm workers receive mementos.
A wrecked German aircraft in the Soviet Union during World War II. Civilians gathered on a street. Traffic moves in the background. The civilians look at a downed German aircraft on the street. Interiors of the aircraft. Bombs and shells recovered from the aircraft. A soldier picks up a shell and shows it to the civilians. Wreckage of the German aircraft with people gathered around it.
Views of Moscow, and the Kremlin, in the Soviet Union, during World War 2. View of snow covered mountains in the Urals. Map of Russia and environs focusing on areas east of the Ural mountains including Siberia. A pointer highlights areas where raw materials such as coal, bauxite copper, oil, and nickel are found. View from above of numerous Soviet workers in the Steppes, where blasting occurs during road building. Giant trees are seen being felled to clear the way for roads. Young Russian men and teenage boys are seen at a camp, marching with shovels and other tools over their shoulders. Next some are seen driving spikes as others in teams swing iron rails into place for a railroad. A group of boys are seen shoveling sand into the road bed as a steam locomotive passes pulling a train of box cars on an adjacent completed track. Siberian engineers, examine a construction site and converse. Workers digging a deep ditch for a pipe line to cross the plains. A field of oil derricks and oil drilling operations are seen, with Soviet roughnecks tending the drills and pipes of the oil wells. A pump operating and crude oil flowing. A camel is seen behind a roughneck tending an oil drill.
Waiting room in a clinic in the Soviet Union, during World War 2. it is filled with women and a few men waiting to donate blood. A nurse in white, calls one of the women, who follows her out of the room. One woman, seated at a table in the waiting room, writes a letter that will be sent with her blood donation. Closeup of her writing. A laboratory technician speaks to her. Closeup of her letter. She gives it to the technician and then leaves the room. Next, she is seen being helped to don a white gown. Then, also wearing a surgical mask, she goes to a bed where she lies down and is covered with a blanket by a woman nurse or technician. Closeup of her smiling. View of her blood entering a collection flask. A technician is then seen wrapping vials of blood and placing them in an insulated container for shipment to the battle front.
Slate reads (in Russian) "Departure from Moscow by Mr. Harry Hopkins." Harry Hopkins, President Franklin Roosevelt's personal envoy, steps from a car and receives farewell expressions from a British Admiral and army officer, as he prepares to board an airplane departing Moscow, after negotiating American Lend Lease assistance to the Soviet Union, during World War 2. Soviet Chairman Mikhail Kalinin, arrives in a car and walks to the group saying goodby to Hopkins. Two Soviet officers and two men in civilian clothes stand on the airport ramp. American Ambassador, Lawrence Steinhardt and British Ambassador, Sir Stafford Cripps chat with an American Army Air Forces pilot. Group of diplomats and military officers gather wishing Hopkins well. Hopkins conversing with Chairman Kalinin. Hopkins making the rounds shaking hands with diplomats and a final vigorous one with Kalinin. He climbs aboard the waiting C-47 transport plane. It taxis out and is next seen flying overhead as those on the ground wave goodby.