Tourists visit Red Square in Moscow, Soviet Union. View of the Nikolskaya Tower, Kremlin Arsenal and the Spasskaya Tower at the Moscow Red Square (Red Square, 3, Moscow, Russia, 109012). The tourists stand in front of Lenin's Tomb (Red Square, 1, Moscow, Russia, 109012). Former Soviet Parliament building in the background.
Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin addresses the people of the Soviet Union during World War II. Men, women, and children listen to the speakers broadcasting the speech made by Stalin. “This war is not an ordinary war! It is the war of the entire Russian people.” the narrator translates Stalin’s speech. A printing press prints Russian newspapers. Man distributes newspapers. Russian men riding horses. Patriotic Russian men marching into a town to enlist in the war effort. Women plastering Soviet propaganda posters. Women and children trained for military tactics. A short-haired Russian woman tests a rifle. Boys use pickaxes in mining. A woman joins the Soviet Army. A female factory worker works with a lathe. An elderly Russian man harvesting wheat. A locomotive train driving. A woman piloting a ship. Women driving tractors. Women carry large sacks on their backs. Russian soldiers taking a metal bedframe. Farmers raising cattle. Houses, factories, and other infrastructure destroyed by fire and dynamite by Russians themselves. View of the Dniepropetrovsk dam in Ukraine. Russians blow up the Dniepropetrovsk Hydroelectric Station to prevent it from falling to Nazi hands. A woman torches her house. Farmers produce in fields. An old man with rifle watches sky for Nazi bombers. Burning houses and villages due to Soviet scorched earth policies. Guerrilla units trained and they march. Guerrilla soldiers with rifles. Men and women Soviet guerrilla soldiers talking. Soviet men hide in the bush. Guerrilla soldiers push down a telegraph post. A burning train. Guerrilla fighters shoot down German soldier. A burning oil depot. Exploding Nazi installations such as bridges, buildings, and warehouses. Russian guerrilla soldiers fire with machine guns. Animated map depicting Nazi German forces stopping outside Moscow. The Kremlin in Moscow. Fresh reserves of the Soviet Red Army march in Moscow.
Newsreel coverage of the successful space flights of Soviet Russian astronauts in Vostok 3 and Vostok 4, during timeframe of "space race" between the Soviet Union and the United States of America. The Russian astronauts Andriyan Nikolayev and Pavel Popovich climb into manned space vehicles. Massive cloud of smoke arise as space ship lifts off. The vehicles travel through space and orbit around the planet within 24 hours of each other. Views from the spaceships while in orbit. The space crew at controls on the ground in Russia. Many newspaper headlines showing coverage of the Russian advance in space. Civilians in Red Square in Moscow cheer the new space heroes. They hold banners and pictures including a large photo of Andriyan Nikolayev.
Embalming laboratory in Moscow, Russia. A technician works with chemicals. Scene changes to funeral of General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin in Moscow, Russia, Soviet Union. Embalmed body of Joseph Stalin, Lying in State. Mourners gathered to pay homage to Joseph Stalin. Women weep. A large crowd of civilians gathered at Red Square. Men carry Stalin's body in a coffin to Lenin's Tomb, where it lies, next to the body of Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars Vladimir Llyich Lenin, preserved in the tomb. Views from years prior of Joseph Stalin descending stairs and leaving after visiting tomb of Vladimir Lenin. Brief scenes of a Soviet chemical laboratory with many vials, flask, and beakers, and a scientist or chemist at work in the lab. Scenes of Soviet citizens waiting in line to file into the tombs of Lenin and Stalin.
A film titled 'Why we fight : Battle of Russia' about German aggression in the Soviet Union during World War II. A dramatization depicts Soviet troops as they defend their land against foreign invaders over the years. A map of the Soviet Union depicts the advance of German forces up to Moscow. Red Army troops march. A picture of an ancient Russian warrior. Snow covered surroundings with the onset of winters. St. Basil's Cathedral in Moscow. People pray in a church. A bishop conducts a service. Soviet soldiers listen to an order read out to them. Aircraft parked on a field. Soviet paratroopers, infantrymen and cavalry units. Artillery being fired at an enemy position.
Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin is given a welcome ceremony in Moscow, after he became the first human to voyage into outer space. From a Russian newsreel with English narration, created during the "Space Race" between the United States and the Soviet Union. Yuri Gagarin arrives by an Aeroflot plane (CCCP-757) at a Moscow airfield. Premier of the Soviet Union, Nikita Khrushchev, greets Gagarin. A huge crowd holds pictures and banners of Gagarin and Khrushchev. Gagarin reports to Premier Khrushchev that he has fulfilled his mission and feels well and ready for his next assignment. Gagarin greets his wife, Valentina Gagarina. He moves in a car through crowd filled streets. At a ceremony in the Kremlin Premier Khrushchev and Defense Minister Marshal of the Soviet Union Rodion Malinovsky congratulate Gagarin and award him the title "Hero of the Soviet Union".
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