A documentary based on activities in Stalingrad after World War II attack. The first May Day celebrations since war shows young Soviet communist men and women singing aboard a steamer underway in the Volga River.
A documentary based on reconstruction of Stalingrad after World War II attack. Soviet women work and reconstruct damaged buildings in Stalingrad. Women walk over a wrecked Nazi German aircraft. Women constructing a brick wall and working on roof tops. Men work on roof tops. Engineers survey the bombed out factory. The salvaged equipment and material. Workers work in the factory.
The ruins of Stalingrad at the end of World War II. The Soviet people walk past ruined buildings in Stalingrad, including the main railway station and its water tower in the first few seconds of the clip, followed by theUnivermag building. A Red Army Parade in Red Square. Signs held up by men marching along the street. The Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin with other officials. The Founder and Commander of the Red Army Leon Trotsky poses. The Dnieper River dam of Soviet Union. Civilian marchers disbanding at end of march on Red Square.
A film about war activities in Leningrad, Soviet Union during World War II. Damaged buildings of the Russian city. An antiaircraft gun position and a streetcar running in the foreground. Explosions on buildings as German shells impact. Injured Soviet people standing by. An old woman is made to sit on the ground. A woman cries. A young boy looking downward, sadly. A dead child lying on steps. People help clear debris in the streets following bombardment.
View of a refugee camp in Stalingrad (now Volgograd) following the defeat of German Nazi invading forces in the Battle of Stalingrad during World War 2. Stalingrad youth emerge from refugee camp tents to work on rebuilding destroyed buildings in the city. Boys break mortar away with hammers to harvest bricks. Young men and women fix machines. Boys break apart a wall to harvest bricks. Aerial view of ruined Stalingrad after the end of the infamous Battle of Stalingrad. Destroyed buildings in Stalingrad seen from ground level. Map of Eastern Europe depicting occupation by Nazi Germany in World War 2, with the map of Texas superimposed. An animated hammer hits Stalingrad on the map. Animation depicts how the Soviet Union gradually took over territories from Nazi Germany.
Soviet troops and tanks enter the city of Bryansk after its liberation from German forces during World War 2. Buildings heavily damaged in Bryansk. Soviet soldiers speak with women about a mass grave in Bryansk. A sign written in Russian and German (“Entering this area is prohibited under a death penalty” in English). Bodies of Soviet victims of Operation Barbarossa, mainly civilians, found in mass grave in Bryansk.