Scenes from the Russian Revolution and years immediately after in Russia, roughly 1918-1921. Troops moving in the snow. Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, the Bolshevik leader, makes peace with the Germans. The Civil War breaks out in Russia. White Russians continue war with World War 1 allies, against Germany. Czarist Cossacks seek to restore the monarchy of Nicholas II. Photograph of the Russian Czar and family sitting outdoors on the ledge of a wooden building. Secret police seen arresting people. Bolshevik firing squad executes three prisoners, who fall dead into a mass grave behind them. Lenin, holding a kitten in his hand, seated at a table. March 7, 1921: Workers and sailors gathered on the streets, in Kronstadt, demanding peace, freedom, and bread. Red Army Troops disperse the crowd, shooting many of them. Leon Trotsky, Commander of the Red Army, states that the slaughter was necessary. Trotsky seen walking with other officers. People on the sides of a path watching Trotsky. Families looking over dead workers and sailors in a field.
U.S. propaganda piece about threats by communists against various European countries. The Czechoslovak coup and demonstrations. Czech citizens moving on a street in Czechoslovakia during a strike forcing conservative elements to resign from the cabinet. Scenes of police brutality and beatings against strikers. Communists take over the police. Czech President Edvard Benes with conservative politicians in a government building. Huge crowd on a street. Police clashing with crowd. Czech Prime Minister Klement Gottwald with officials. President Edvard Benes, facing possible civil war or invasion by the Soviet Union, accepts a Communist cabinet. He is seen signing documents to that effect on February 25, 1948. Other officials beside President Benes during the signing. View of the first President of Czechoslovakia Tomas Masaryk's son, Jan Masaryk, who remained the Foreign Minister, and did not agree to the new government. Two days later Jan Masaryk is discovered dead. The body of Jan Masaryk in a coffin. Edvard Benes, who resigned in June 1948 after refusing to sign the communist constitution, is seen walking slowly outside the Parliament using a cane. A guard saluting Benes. View of the body of Edvard Benes, who died in September 1948, laying in a coffin. Mourning citizens offering flowers and cry. Officials bearing the coffin. Shift several years later to street strikes in East Germany in 1953. People during a strike and riot in Poland in 1956. Russian tanks moving on a street and Soviet soldiers are seen. Elevated view of panic and Polish citizens fleeing soldiers. October 1956: Student demonstrators on street in Budapest Hungary during the Hungarian Uprising of 1956. Soviet Russian red star is toppled by crowds from a building roof in a sign of defiance. Russian troops respond with tanks on the streets in Hungary. Crowd fights back. Russians retreat. Crowd overwhelms local police. Imre Nagy, Prime Minister of Hungary, ascends steps. Hungarian crowd on streets burn communist books and papers. Russian tanks invade Hungary to crush revolt. Tanks fire guns on Hungarian street. Imre Nagy's execution announced June 17, 1958.
United States intervention in the Lebanon Crisis. U.S. Marines reaching the coastline of Lebanon. The Marines climb out of rafts. People watching the Marines. U.S. bomber aircraft in flight. Lebanese people on a beach. U.S. Marines unloading ammunition from the rafts. The Marines holding guns moving into the city of Beirut. The Marines guarding Beirut International Airport. U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower during a speech says that U.S. intervention could have serious effects. He says that the United States is neither looking for any material gain nor has it any emotional hostility against any government. The sole aim is the preservation of independence of every state. Several aircraft on an airfield. U.S. 2nd Marine Division enplaning at Cherry Point in North Carolina, U.S. Soldiers holding equipment beside the aircraft. The soldiers walking in columns. Several aircraft on the airfield. U.S. Army airborne troops beside the aircraft. The troops getting into the aircraft. Airborne troops from Germany at Adena air base in Turkey. British paratroops from Cyprus boarding aircraft bound for Jordan. A Royal Air Force aircraft takes off. U.S. aircraft carrier USS Leyte in a harbor. Supplies carried on cranes. U.S. sailors speaking over telephones in phone boxes. Sailors holding cartons moving on a ramp to a vessel. Officials at the United Nations building during a meeting. U.S. Ambassador to the UN Henry Cabot Lodge speaking into a microphone. Officials beside the Ambassador. The Ambassador calls for decisive action by the UN and says U.S. Marines will be withdrawn in accordance with the UN action.
The German attack on the Soviet Union during World War II. An animation map depicting the German advance in the Soviet Union. The President of Germany Adolf Hitler discusses with other officers. General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Joseph Stalin addresses the soldiers. A tank advances. Fire rises as a bomb explodes. The Soviet soldiers attack through crumbling walls and factories. The soldiers fire from the window of a house. The soldiers run on a staircase. The soldiers fire from a damaged building. The soldiers advance. The soldiers push an artillery. A damaged building and a fountain in front. The French, German and British soldiers on the battle field.
A war production worker in a tire manufacturing plant during World War 2 is seen handling a very large rubber tire. Tires are stacked as high as the ceiling in a warehouse. Closeup of countless artillery shells standing side by side with their noses pointing upward. Small arms cartridges spilling from a hopper. Rolls of ammunition being packed into steel boxes by women in a factory. Two army officers watch an M3 Army half track leaving a factory. Lower sections of M7 Priest Howitzer Motor Carriages built on M3 Lee medium tank chassis, are seen leaving the American Locomotive Company factory on a railroad. Their turrets have not yet been installed. One of them is marked as the 50 thousandth manufactured at that facility. M2 medium tanks leaving a factory. M24 Chaffee tanks driving out of a factory in 1944. M10 tank destroyers (3-inch Gun Motor Carriages M10) driving in a parking field. A field full of many M4 Sherman tanks. New jeeps driving out of a factory. A yard filled with parked jeeps. New B-17 bombers being towed out of a Boeing factory. One of them has serial number 44-6519. (Assigned to the 602nd Bomb Squadron, 602nd Bomb Group at Northampstead, Hertfordshire England, It was downed by antiaircraft flak fire over Nienberge, NW of Munster,Germany on 28 October, 1944.) Engines moving on an overhead crane in a factory. Wooden power boats under construction. A huge stack of pipes in an outdoor storage yard. Heavy containers being placed on wooden shipping pallets by fork lifts. Anti-aircraft guns being transported on a railroad train pushed by a steam locomotive. Numerous 105mm covered howitzers lined up with barrels crossing one another. Rows of parked Sherman tanks. Column of parked army field ambulances. A yard filled with parked army vehicles. Crane at work in an industrial plant yard filled with pipes and building materials. Petroleum workers rotating valves on oil pipelines. Men placing fueling pipes into open railroad tank cars. A rail yard fulled with tank cars. Another rail yard with numerous tracks full of freight cars and steam locomotives. A crane moving 55 gallon drums in a petroleum storage yard.
United States Army Air Corps exercises in Sunnyvale, California. Airship or blimp TC-13 taken into hangar and disassembly begins on it (before it's transfer to the U.S. Navy). Man on a ladder. Army soldiers near a net. Men attach helium gas hose into airship to retrieve and store its helium. Narrator notes that the helium gas is valuable and potentially wanted by Germany for its Zeppelin program. Exteriors of the helium storage room. The helium bottles from which dirigible is filled. Airship during dirigible in hanger.
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