German truck convoys move supplies through snow blizzard, advancing to engage Soviet Russian troops on the eastern front in World War II. German soldiers shovel snow and clear pathway through snow. A German soldier with a snow encrusted, frozen mustache. German soldiers walk through a snowy trench with snow roofed area. Wire entanglement placed across open field and a German soldier scans the horizon with binoculars. Tanks and tracked armored vehicles uncovered from barn covering camouflage. Artillery forward observer moves through field on Panzer tank. Signal man relays message. German artillery fired. Fire and smoke. Shells hit objectives. German Tanks roll on the snow covered battlefields. Scenes of destroyed Soviet tanks and dead Russian soldiers on snow covered ground.
People gather to celebrate an event organized for the youth of Russia in August 1939. Soviet Premier Stalin reviews children parading, dancing and doing calisthenics. Boys march with flags. Buildings along the sides of a street. Boys and girls perform on a stage in front of a large crowd. Children march. Boys perform on the ground amidst the crowd. Girls and boys on decorated floats pass through the street. Buildings in the background. Several performances by the young boys and girls in colorful dresses. A crowd gathers in front of decorated buildings. Pictures of dignitaries on the wall of a building. Girls march with flags.
General Timoshenko arrives to review troops in Moscow, Russia during World War II. Buildings along the sides of a street. Troops stand in war against fascism. The soldiers stand in formation. An aerial view of the area in which the troops are gathered. General Timoshenko arrives riding a horse with other officers. The troops march in front of the officials. The General addresses the troops. Armed civilians and Red Army women pass in review.
Russian civilians help soldiers in Moscow, Russia during World War II. Buildings in an area. Soldiers march with weapons. Military vehicles drive past on the streets. Civilians help the army in preparing for the war. Trenches are dug and sand-bag emplacements are erected. Artillery and barrage-balloons are towed through the streets. Civilians enlist as guerrilla fighters. Weapons are issued to the civilians. Women and old men work in a munition factory.
Russian soldiers advance towards the battlefield in Moscow, Russia during World War II . A map of Russia showing places. Joseph Stalin addresses a vast crowd in Red Square. Buildings in the area. Ski troops, cavalry and infantry units march from the square. Tanks and trucks loaded with infantry units roll through the city. Snow covered area. An armored locomotive and a freight train is removed from a camouflaged shed. Trenches are dug in the snow, barbed wire is strung and trees are chopped down to barricade a road. German planes hover over the city and bombard the city. Explosions and smoke from bombardment.
German attack on Russia during World War 2. German He-111 bombers in flight over Gomel, Russia. Pilot in the cockpit of an plane. Bombs dropped. Soviets fire antiaircraft guns and FLAK smoke is seen. Bombers in flight and again drop bombs. On the ground, Soviets set off smoke screens in attempt to obscure targets.