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.
View of Mont Blanc in the Alps. A cable car in transit. French and Italian workers riding on an open narrow gauge railroad train carrying cases of champagne to celebrate the "holing through" of a 7 mile tunnel,through Mont Blanc from Chamonix, on the French side of the mountain, to Courmayeur in Italy. It is to facilitate road travel directly between the two countries. Workers fasten French and Italian flags,to the tunnel wall. Professor Loris Corbi, in charge of the Italian tunneling project is seen with his French counterpart, Professor Andre Borie, as they exchange congratulatory kisses. The French and Italian workers cheer and celebrate this remarkable engineering achievement.
The Greco-Turkish war, circa 1921. Men preparing ammunition, weapons, and explosives.Women sewing and knitting. Women carrying supplies. Stockpile of supplies. Women driving oxcarts loaded with supplies for the militia. One woman with baby on her back, as she leads oxen. Turkish Nationalist militia moving supplies up hills in Anatolia. Turkish Nationalist cavalry riding up steep slopes. Mustafa Kemal Ataturk with members of his officer staff, standing on mountain overlooking battleground. Shell explodes near entrenched Turkish troops. Turkish gun crew firing a Vickers machine gun, and others advancing in the field. Battle scarred buildings on side of a hill.
A parade to primarily advertise the new Fordson Tractors. The rally includes several Road Graders attached to Fordson tractors.Heavy trucks with Fruehauf Trailers loaded with goods and people.Tractor drawn earth scoops,maulers, thrashers,and several industrial grade vehicles. Rally moves down the wet snowy streets with streetcars,trams and other vehicles moving on other side of road.1921.
Experiments on the aerial bombing of water crafts off Virginia Capes in the United States. July 13, 1921: Destroyer G-102 under bombing attack. Explosions in water around the ship. Two 300lb bombs, a direct hit on the ship. Smoke from the explosions. The destroyer on fire. Sinking by the bow.
Experiments on the aerial bombing of water crafts off Virginia Capes in the United States. July 18, 1921: The ex-German cruiser Frankfort (Frankfurt) at sea. The ship under bombing attack. Explosions near the ship. Aerial view of the attack. Explosions on the cruiser. A mushroom cloud of black smoke. Fragments of the vessel. 600lb bomb loosens all her bow plates. The cruiser going down. Turbulence and debris cause bubbles on the water surface as she sinks completely.
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