May Day celebration in Kiev, Soviet Union. Parade through the city streets. Civilians parade with banners and big cut outs of Stalin in streets as Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin along with other leaders , Georgy Malenkov, Anastas Mikoyan review the parade. Russian tanks and search lights mounted on jeeps during the parade.
Romanian Dictator, marshal Ion Victor Antonescu accompanied by German officers, visiting Romanian troops in Odessa during World War II. They review a welcoming parade with a military band and troops marching across a field. He converses with soldiers and decorates several with medals. He and German General von Manstein present awards to German soldiers and aviators. The Romanian Order of the Crown decoration is displayed on a recipient officer's uniform blouse. As Marshal Antonescu is leaving, General von manstein presents him with a book.Marshal Antonescu boards his Junker JU-52 aircraft. A cresent moon and man's head wearing a fez, are painted on the cowling of the center engine on the airplane. Marshal Antonescu peers out of the cabin window as the aircraft taxis for takeoff.
View of a beet Kolkhoz (a collective farm) near Kiev in Russia. Farmers at work. Beet is processed into Sugar. Russian women in a farm. Cotton is picked and unloaded at Commune of Paris cotton Kolkhoz, located in Armenia. Rice is threshed and stacked in North Star Kolkhoz in Turkestan.
German soldiers arrive in the Kerch Peninsula during the Battle of the Kerch Peninsula of World War II. Animated map shows Kerch, Stalino and other places. German ships arrive at the Kerch Peninsula after evacuating a Cuban bridgehead. A soldier looks at Russian aircraft in flight through binoculars. An antiaircraft gun downs attacking Russian aircraft. Bombs dropped from the aircraft. A convoy of ships at sea. German soldiers walk in columns. Soldiers load material in a truck. A railroad engine used to pull down a tower. German engineers detonate installations to cover their retreat.
Artillery fire is directed on Russian lines from observation balloons in the Kerch Peninsula during the Battle of the Kerch Peninsula of World War II. A German observation balloon is raised. Wire reel and gear box of the balloon are raised. A soldier looks through a binocular. A soldier talks over a field telephone. Soldiers work with a map at a table. The soldiers fire field artillery. They push bombs to be loaded.
German bombers strike Russian positions during the Battle of the Kerch Peninsula of World War 2. German He-111 bombers in flight. A German gunner seen at the window of bomber. Crew in a German bomber aircraft. Bombs are dropped on Russian positions. Aerial view of bomb explosions on targets. A pilot and a copilot in a cockpit. Aerial view of bombs dropping on Russian positions.