A documentary based on activities in Stalingrad after World War II attack. The first May Day celebrations since war shows young Soviet communist men and women singing aboard a steamer underway in the Volga River.
A documentary based on reconstruction of Stalingrad after World War II attack. Soviet women work and reconstruct damaged buildings in Stalingrad. Women walk over a wrecked Nazi German aircraft. Women constructing a brick wall and working on roof tops. Men work on roof tops. Engineers survey the bombed out factory. The salvaged equipment and material. Workers work in the factory.
Views of the signature page on the German surrender document, ending World War II in Europe. Scenes of devastation in Berlin with many buildings and bridges reduced to rubble, including the Reichstag building. A victory parade in Moscow, Russia after signing of Nazi surrender. Victory parade by military troops in Moscow. Troops march with rifles, salute Josef Stalin and others on review stand. Huge crowd gathered singing victory hymns. Soviet citizens cheer and present bouquets to Russian soldiers and lift them. Women laugh. Fireworks at night in Moscow to celebrate the victory.
Contingents of Soviet and American soldiers march in military tribute to Soviet-American friendship. The pageant is reviewed by Major General John Russell Dean, Commander of the U.S. Military Mission in Moscow, and his Soviet counterpart. The exercise concludes with a Soviet officer and an American officer saluting one another and shaking hands. Snow is falling. Spectators include official Soviet and American families, all dressed warmly, some in furs, Small boy seen in huge white fur coat. U.S. National Seal displayed along side Soviet Red Star. (World War II period).
May day celebration in Leningrad, Russia near end of World War 2. Masses of Russian troops parade before Russian dignitaries. Troops in Palace Square of Winter Palace, with Arch of the General Headquarters in background. Photographs of Lenin and another dignitary on a wall. Troops march, while dignitaries watch. View of marching Soviet troops, some from stationary elevated position and some from moving camera. General Georgy Zhukov on mausoleum. Troops salute and dignitary salutes back. Naval troops march. Russian trucks and artillery parade. People carry a photo of Lenin during a rally. Balloons being released as they head for the sky.
Soviet troops march at a victory parade in Red Square after the Allied victory over Germany in World War II. Joseph Stalin, Vyacheslav Molotov, Nikita Khrushchev, General Semen Budennyi and other officials atop Lenin's tomb as they review the victory parade. Nazi German flags and banners thrown at the foot of Lenin's tomb. High ranking Soviet military officers are seen watching the parade.