A film about war activities in the Soviet Union during World War II. A man stands guard on the top of a cliff. A water fall in the foreground. A group of Soviet ski troops. Snipers shoot at the ski troops. Head of one of the skiers being bandaged. Two skiers bring in one of the wounded.
A film about war activities in the Soviet Union during World War II. Soviet Navy ships underway in sea. A barrage balloon overhead. A cameraman runs on a deck and enters a submarine. Interiors of the submarine. Marines at controls. A gauge in the submarine. The periscope in water as the submarine is underway. The conning tower. View of a burning ship through the periscope.
A film about war production and war worker activities in the Soviet Union during World War 2. A train on tracks. A worker fills a tank car with oil. The tank car train pulls away. Two workers talk. A worker works in a mine setting up multiple drills. Women workers labor in mines to help create resources needed for the war effort. Cars driven through mine shafts.
A USSR woman writes to American women to speak about the importance of Soviet women participation in war efforts during World War 2, known in the Soviet Union as the Great Patriotic War. Hands writing a letter. A Soviet war production factory for war materiel manufacturing in Ural Mountains. Overhead crane moving inside factory. Molten metal inside factory foundry ladles. Factory workers shoveling coal into foundry furnace. A hot steel bar rolls on factory assembly line. Soviet women working in mines, swinging pick axes at mine wall. Russian woman operating a lathe. A Soviet woman assembles a gun stock. A Soviet woman, with a short Pixie cut hairstyle, aims a newly made rifle. Woman puts gun onto assembly line. Women make artillery shells. Rows of high explosive bombs, T-34 tanks, Howitzer artillery, made by Soviet women in factories.
Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin addresses the people of the Soviet Union during World War II. Men, women, and children listen to mounted loudspeakers broadcasting the speech made by Stalin. “This war is not an ordinary war! It is the war of the entire Russian people.” the narrator translates Stalin’s speech. A printing press prints Russian newspapers. Man distributes newspapers. Russian men riding horses. Patriotic Russian men marching into a town to enlist in the war effort. Women plastering Soviet propaganda posters. Women and children trained for military tactics. A short-haired Russian woman tests a rifle. Boys use pickaxes in mining. A woman joins the Soviet Army. A female factory worker works with a lathe. An elderly Russian man harvesting wheat. A locomotive train driving. A woman piloting a ship. Women driving tractors. Women carry large sacks on their backs. Russian soldiers taking a metal bedframe. Farmers raising cattle. Houses, factories, and other infrastructure destroyed by fire and dynamite by Russians themselves. View of the Dniepropetrovsk dam in Ukraine. Russians blow up the Dniepropetrovsk Hydroelectric Station to prevent it from falling to Nazi hands. A woman torches her house. Farmers produce in fields. An old man with rifle watches sky for Nazi bombers. Burning houses and villages due to Soviet scorched earth policies, burning their own villages so no resources are left for the invading German forces. Guerrilla units trained and they march. Guerrilla soldiers with rifles. Men and women Soviet guerrilla soldiers talking. Soviet men hide in the bush. Guerrilla soldiers push down a telegraph post. A burning train. Guerrilla fighters shoot down German soldier. A burning oil depot. Exploding Nazi installations such as bridges, buildings, and warehouses. Russian guerrilla soldiers fire with machine guns. Animated map depicting Nazi German forces stopping outside Moscow. The Kremlin in Moscow. Fresh reserves of the Soviet Red Army march in Moscow.
A film about farm activities in Kazakhstan, Soviet Union during World War II. A Soviet on horseback. A herd of cattle grazes. A mountainous area. A boy stands in the middle of a flock of sheep. A combine harvester in operation. A thresher on a field. Men carry a sack of grain. Women pick tea leaves. Camels pull carts loaded with sacks, passing under arch gate into city.