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Women serving in the Soviet army and women with children, preparing gifts for soldiers during World War II
A battalion of Soviet women soldiers stands at attention in formation as officers address them, during World War 2. . Change of scene shows one bandaging the arm of a wounded soldier. A shell bursts nearby. Several Soviet soldiers advancing in a field. Closeup of a Soviet woman soldier. Another shell explosion. View reverts to the battalion of women soldiers in formation. Closeups of several of them. The battalion members break formation and board open army trucks that will take them to the battle front. Views of civilian women and children behind the lines at home, filling parcels with cakes, socks, handkerchiefs, and the like, for soldiers at the front. Closeups of women knitting and sewing items for the troops. One little girl has painted a design on a box for the soldiers. Camera zooms in on the painting. Closeup of a package ready for shipment. In bold letters the main heading on the parcel reads: "подаркн боицам" (Gifts for Fighters). View of a package being opened by soldiers at the front, reveals newspapers and other small items. Soldiers reading an enclosing message from the senders. View of a letter, with many signatures on it. Smiling soldiers share contents of the box, which includes cigarettes
Home guard cavalry unit training during World War II in Soviet Union
An old bearded Russian Cossack stands in the midst of a contingent of Soviet cavalry, seated on the ground, during World War 2. Closeups of some in his audience. Next, the old man is seen riding at the head of a troop of cavalry. They pass close to the camera, and then are seen from above, as they proceed along a dirt path. Marshal of the Soviet Union, Semyon Audyonny, is seen consulting with other officers. (Narrator states he is involved in training home guard cavalry.) Cavalry mounting up and heading out, past a fence where several rural people wave to them. A troop of Cossacks in Papaha (black Cossack hats) is put through their paces by their commander. He directs one of his troop to charge on horseback, brandishing his sword. The Cossack charges through a series of wooden stakes, swinging his sword at each as he passes. Closeup of one cut clean through. Final scene shows the entire troop charging in formation
Soviet women donate blood for use at the battle front during World War II.
Waiting room of a city hospital in the Soviet Union, during World War 2. it is filled with women waiting to donate blood. A nurse in white, calls one of the women, who follows her. Several women are seen in the donor station of the hospital. The women show some identification and are accepted as blood donors. One woman writes a letter that will be sent with her blood donation. A laboratory technician takes her letter. She follows him, dons on a white gown and mask and goes to a table where she lies down. View of her blood entering a collection flask. Technicians preparing the vials of blood by wrapping them and placing them in refrigerator containers for shipment to the battle front. The woman blood donor sits upright, removes her mask, and smiles.
Soviet Union builds railroads and drills for oil in Siberia during World War II
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 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 men 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 youth 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 drilling operations are seen, with Soviet roughnecks tending the drills and pipes. . A pump operating and crude oil flowing. A camel is seen behind a roughneck tending an oil drill.
Steel manufacturing in Stalinsk and mining of coal and copper in Siberia, USSR, during World War II
Map of Siberia and environs highlights the Urals, Magnitogors, and Stalinsk ( now Novokuznetsk) in Russia. Camera pans over industrial complex in the city of Stalinsk, Soviet Union, during World War 2. Numerous plants and smoke stacks are seen. Closeup of flaming coke being discharged from a coking furnace. Cooled coke being discharged into a large pile. Interior of a steel mill where workers have just tapped an open hearth furnace, amidst fire and smoke. Fiery molten steel pouring from the furnace. Hot ingots being moved to rolling mills. Russian steel workers controlling the mills. Large long ribbons of steel emerge from the top of a rolling mill. Workers lift them up and place them back into the mill below the roller, this time, which then pulls them away in a second pass, moving away from the camera. Hot ribbon of steel moves in a circular path within a pathway atop a large machine. Men working at machinery with numerous valve handles. Closeup of a steel worker. Change of scene to a mine where a miner tends five drills boring into the ceiling of a mine cavity. He installs a shaft onto one of the drills. Small gauge rail cars transport ore out of the mine. Next, an open air copper mine is seen with Steam shovels digging the ore. A meeting of factory workers with a poster of Joseph Stalin displayed. A speaker extends thanks from Soviet leaders and from Soviet soldiers at the front. Closeups of speakers and listening workers. A woman operating controls to rotate a drum of crushed copper ore and empty it. Workers tending numerous banks of copper ore washing machines.
Soviet forces engage invading German forces during World War II
Opening scene shows Soviet troops gathered in a forest during World War 2. Artillery fire is heard in background. Next Soviet artillerymen are firing a 122 mm howitzer M1910/30 at a front line position during World War 2. . A Soviet Polikarpov I-16 aircraft is seen briefly, in flight overhead. Soviet infantry advancing across a field behind a T-34 tank. Heavy smoke clouds nearby in the background. Soviet infantry moving through forest as machine gun fire is heard. One soldier places a slit shield in front of himself and fires through it with his rifle, while standing in a trench. View of him firing alongside a comrade in the trench. Soviet troops jumping from an army truck to take up positions in the field. Soviet Marshal Semyon Timoshenko is seen at the battle front accompanied by another officer. . A string of dropped bombs explode in the distance. Soviet soldiers in a trench looking for enemy aircraft with binoculars. Infantry passing through barbed wire. One carries a mine detector. Soviet machine gunners duck as a shell explodes near them. Infantry charging through the woods.Soviet Polikarpov.I-16 aircraft attack German tanks that maneuver in attempt to escape them. Bombs explode among the tanks. A Soviet Polikarpov I-16 aircraft climbs rapidly overhead. View from Russian aircraft of German tanks racing across a field, that appear to be emitting smoke screens. Soviet tanks moving past a blazing wooden structure. Wrecked German army motorcycle and side car displaying the Totenkopf (death head) symbol. Closeup of the symbol. Dead German soldiers in the grass and lying next to a motorcycle. Remains of a downed German airplane, in flames. Dead German flyer entangled in remains of parachute. Soviet soldier examines a knocked out German Panzer I tank. Partial views of other destroyed German tanks. Smoke drifts across a quiet battlefield. Soviet infantry moving forward. Several views of German prisoners of war being marched in various locations. Closeup of Totenkopf and number 13 on the side of a German armored vehicle. A Soviet soldier begins to scrub it off the vehicle. Camera pans closely over some of the prisoners. A German soldier, who wants to stop fighting, presents a pass to a Soviet soldier as he surrenders. Closeup of the pass, one of many that had been scattered among the German forces, by the Soviets. It invites a bearer, who is fed up with killing, to come to the Soviets. The document states boldly, "Geht mit diesem ausweis durch die front." (Go with these identification papers through the front.) Soviet soldiers escort the German soldier away. Soviet soldiers help a wounded comrade from a tank camouflaged under hay. Soviet medical corps women and a male doctor tend to the wounds of a soldier. A Soviet non-commissioned officer speaks at a battlefront funeral in woods. Afterwards, all attending stand and remove their hats in respect. View of the grave marker and flowers covering the grave.
