Leader of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Marshal Josip Broz Tito in Prague, Czechoslovakia. Marshal Tito is greeted and decorated by Czech President Edvard Benes in the Prague Castle (Hradčany, 119 08 Prague 1, Czechia). Cheering spectators on the sidelines as a car containing Russian Marshals Ivan Konev and Pavel Rybalko drives past. Russian officers in the car waving to the spectators. Czech girls waving flower bouquets. Crowds throw flowers at staff car. The Marshals review an honor guard accompanied by Commander-in Chief of Czech Army General Ludwig Svoboda. A building decorated with Czech signs that read “LONG LIVE THE RED ARMY” and “LONG LIVE MARSHAL KONEV” and “LONG LIVE GENERAL STALIN”.
British Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery visits Prague, Czechoslovakia after World War II. An American Douglas DC-3 aircraft taxis on a Czechoslovakian aerodrome. British Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery alights from the aircraft. He is greeted by Czechoslovakian Foreign Minister Jan Masaryk and Commander-in Chief of the Czechoslovakian Army General Ludwig Svoboda. The gathered crowd greets Marshal Montgomery with cheers. He reviews members of Czechoslovakian 1st Armored Brigade which served under him. Marshal Montgomery in a convertible car which drives through the cheering Czechoslovakian crowd.
Celebrations on 4th July, Independence Day of the United States, in Pilsen, Czechoslovakia. U.S. troops and a band march. U.S. Army Major General Ernest N. Harmon at the 4th July celebrations. Czech President Edvard Benes and others on a reviewing stand. The troops march. American mechanized vehicles pass in review.
Russian Ambassador to Czechoslovakia Valerian Zorin in Czechoslovakia. Valerian Zorin addresses the meeting of the Society for Cultural Relations with the USSR. Large posters of Soviet figures Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin hang behind Zorin. The audience listen to Zorin’s speech. Zorin speaks into a microphone. The crowd applauds.
Czech Prime Minister Klement Gottwald at an airfield in Prague, Czechoslovakia. Prime Minister Klement followed by military officials walks on the airfield. Prime Minister Gottwald shakes hands with Russian Ambassador to Czechoslovakia Valerian Zorin. Gottwald boards an aircraft for Moscow. Russia. The aircraft takes off.
Camp for Russian prisoners in Plattling, Germany soon after World War II. Russian prisoners being placed in line by a U.S. soldiers. Prisoners walk along a field and being lined up. Prisoners carry their meager possessions. Line of U.S. trucks. Russian and U.S. soldiers on guard. Line of Russian prisoners being marched to trucks for return to Russia. Prisoners getting into a truck guarded by rifle carrying U.S. soldiers. Truck pulls off. Trucks drive up to a train. Prisoners being searched for knives or weapons of any kind. Historical record accompanying the footage indicates that these Russian prisoners were former Russian soldiers, captured by the Germans, and that some of them then joined and fought for Germany.