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Nazi Germany Luftwaffe bombers bomb Leningrad's industrial area and sink the battleship Marat during the Siege of Leningrad.

The Nazi Germany attempt to capture Leningrad during the Siege of Leningrad in World War 2. A map depicts Leningrad in the USSR. German artillery bombards Kronstadt on the Kotlin Island. An artillery barrel as it is fired. Soldiers load and fire artillery guns. Smoke due to the explosions. German aircraft attack the Kronstadt harbor. Explosions in the water. A soldier mans a gun. The Soviet battleship Marat (Petropavlovsk) is hit by a German Junker Ju 87 or Stuka. The battleship enveloped in smoke. German Luftwaffe bombers in flight overhead. The aircraft bomb the industrial area of Leningrad. The bombs descend to the target area. Smoke due to the explosions.

Date: 1942
Duration: 2 min 5 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Portuguese
Clip: 65675021783
Soviet Union mobilizes to defend against German invasion in June, 1941, World War II

A film titled ' Our Russian front. It shows Soviet Russia's state of preparedness and national mobilization at the time of the German invasion (Operation Barbarossa) in 1941, during World War 2. Soviet troops on parade in Red Square, Moscow, carrying Tokarev SVT-40 semi-automatic assault rifles, with curved magazines and fixed bayonets. Glimpse of a Soviet heavy gun (possibly 152mm howitzer). A Soviet Navy gunboat speeding toward the camera. A formation of Polikarpov I-16 aircraft inflight overhead. Several views of soviet forces, including units composed entirely of women; Closeups of troops, some holding Russian RPD 7.62 cal m44 light machine guns. A Soviet T-26 speeding in Red Square with flag flying, during a parade. View from the rear of a line of Soviet Zvezda BT-7 light tanks being deployed along a dirt road. Russian civilians, most of them women, work digging hillside fortifications. Closeup of woman with small boy in her arms. Views of destroyed buildings and dead civilians in a Russian town Aerial view of bombs bursting on Russian city. Smoke rising from resulting fires. Several views of light flashes from artillery firing at night. American envoy, W. Averell Harriman, participant in the U.S.-British military mission to Moscow, broadcasts about Soviet determination to defend against the Nazi invasion, at all costs. He refers to Soviet mechanics assembling American aircraft (Provided under "Lend Lease"). Narrator identifies Harriman as Chairman of the Board of Union Pacific Railroad. View of Russian airplanes in formation, flying high above the State Museum building in Red Square, Moscow. An American Government aircraft (C-47 /DC-3) aircraft lands at Moscow Airport. View of the aircraft parked and surrounded by a large crowd of military and diplomatic attendees. Harriman steps from the plane. Next he is seen with British Lord Beaverbrook and Soviet diplomat, Andrey Yanuaryevich Vyshinsky. Another view of Russian aircraft flying over the State museum in Red Square. U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt (unseen) is heard in the background extolling the Russian efforts against the Nazis. Soviet Tupolev SB bombers in formation overhead. Flags waving Aerial view of a formation of Polikarpov I-16 aircraft in flight. A Komintern Artillery Tractor,carrying Soviet soldiers, tows a 152mm field howitzer. A formation of army vehicles carrying Russian troops along paths already formed in the dirt by prior tracked vehicles. Seen are Komintern Artillery Tractors and ordinary army trucks.

Date: 1941
Duration: 8 min 18 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675038613
Fireworks in Red Square. Tehran, Iran, conference in 1943. Potsdam conference, 1945.

A crowd enjoys fireworks in Red Square, Moscow, Soviet Union, at night. Past events show Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winston Churchill of the United Kingdom in Tehran, Iran for the Tehran Conference of 1943. U.S. President Harry S. Truman in Germany during the Potsdam Conference of 1945. The Grand Kremlin Palace in Moscow, Soviet Union. Soviet people along a street in Moscow. Foreign Minister of the Soviet Union, Vyacheslav Molotov with others applauding at the Bolshoi theater, in Moscow. Anti-soviet disorders. Street cars being overturned. (Hungary?).

Date: 1945
Duration: 46 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675075170
President Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin, and other Allied officials at the Yalta Conference in Crimea, Russia during World War 2

Allied leaders at the Yalta Conference in Crimea, Russia during World War II. The meeting was also codenamed the Argonaut Conference. British Prime Minister Winston Churchill in British uniform removes his hat as he enters the Livadia Palace. Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin in a uniform enters the palace along with Vyacheslav Molotov, Andrei Vyshinsky, Pavlov and Russian diplomat Andrei Gromyko. Allied leaders seated around a table at the conference, including: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, U.S. Secretary of State Edward Stettinius (on Roosevelt's right), Harry Hopkins (seated away from the table behind Roosevelt's right shoulder), Roosevelt's chief diplomatic advisor Alger Hiss (on Roosevelt's right), Roosevelt confidant James F. Byrnes, British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, Permanent Under Secretary to Foreign Secretary Alexander Cadogan, Prime Minister Winston Churchill, Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin, People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs Vyacheslav Molotov, Soviet Ambassador Pavalov (primary English translator for Stalin), Deputy Commissar for Foreign Affairs Andrey Vishinsky, Andrei Gromyko, Ivan Maisky, and Ambassador Gusiev. Also seen seated at a table: U.S. Army General George C. Marshall, U.S. Navy Admiral Ernest King, President Franklin Roosevelt, U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union W. Averell Harriman.

Date: 1945, February
Duration: 3 min 0 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675065762
Soviet Navy warships defend allied convoy against German air and submarine attack during World War II

Elements of the Soviet Navy Nothern Fleet escorting a supply convoy in the Barents Sea during World War 2. Soviet destroyers in camouflage are seen moving amongst the transport ships of the convoy. Soviet officers conferring in pilot house of a ship. Scene of some heavy seas. A Soviet Leningrad class destroyer moving rapidly astern the photo ship. Cargo ships steaming in background. Soviet antiaircraft gunners near their weapons, search skies with binoculars. Three German airplanes are sighted overhead and an alarm is sounded. Soviet sailors run to their battle stations. One gun crew is seen uncovering their weapon and beginning to fire at the German aircraft. A German three-engine Ju-52 flies low over the ship and drops a bomb that explodes in the water. Soviet gunners continue their barrage. Black flak begins to appear in the sky. A German Ju-78, Stuka dive bomber heads toward a ship. Two Soviet officers, on deck in heavy clothing, looking through binoculars. sailors load shells. Sequence shifts to a fast moving Soviet MO-4 small guard ship. View from aboard the MO-4 as it speeds through the water. Officers seen on the open foredeck. A crew member signals and the ship launches a depth charge to defend the convoy against German submarines. She continues to lay a cordon of depth charges. Final scene shows convoy transport ships continuing safely.

Date: 1941
Duration: 3 min 19 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Russian
Clip: 65675072021
Soviet nuclear weapon buildup prompting NATO’s Double-Track Decision response during the Cold War

Three Soviet soldiers standing in position, two of them holding their guns. Soviet soldiers holding their guns at attention. Soviet Union Leader Leonid Brezhnev discussing with Soviet Union officials during the Cold War. An artist impression of portable nuclear warhead installations. A parade in the Moscow Red Square. The camera zooms into Vladimir Lenin’s Mausoleum in the Red Square. Soviet soldiers marching. Soviet tanks rolling through a desert-like field. Helicopters flying over the field. An explosion near tanks. Tanks roll away from the smoke. A Soviet tank fires. Missiles being fired. Soviet Navy ships shooting missiles. A jet fighter aircraft taking off. United States Air Force man speaks to the camera from an Air Force office. A Soviet fighter jet (Yakovlev Yak-38) takes off vertically. A large jet propelled Soviet test sled vehicle taking off. A ballistic missile is fired. Military truck carries a missile. Soviet soldiers adjust a missile. View of the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, from the other side of the Moskva River.

Date: 1979
Duration: 1 min 18 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675078974