Soviet Union mobilizes in wake of the Operation Barbarossa, invasion by Germany and its allies in World War 2. At beginning, the film shows a large crowd of Soviet citizens gathered as they learn about the invasion on June 22, 1941, Camera pans over the crowd and shows many closeups of individuals and groups. Brief view of Joseph Stalin broadcasting to the Soviet people on June 22nd, saying, "This war is not an ordinary war. It is a war of the entire Russian people, not only to eliminate the danger hanging over our head, but to aid all people groaning under the yoke of Fascism." High speed printers produce news reports for distribution across the land. Views of men on horseback leaving a rural village to answer the call for recruits to defend the nation. Views of conscripts being marched in formation on a city street, under direction of a Soviet officer. Film emphasizes the roll of women in the war effort, showing women pasting patriotic posters on a wall. A cadre of uniformed women soldiers is seen marching along a city street past spectators. A large group of many kinds of Soviet citizens walking together, including men, women, and youths. A boy works, checking a newly manufactured rifle, in an arms factory. Boys digging with pickaxes alongside older miners in a coal mine. Women in an army unit wearing full uniforms including bed rolls. A Soviet army unit containing both men and women. A woman operating a lathe in a war plant machine shop. An old man seen along with women harvesting grain by hand, on a farm. A steam locomotive moving on a rail road. A woman at the helm of a ship. Women operating farm equipment. Soviet soldiers removing usable metal objects from a dwelling to use in the war effort. Women and children gleaning remains in a farm field. Cattle being driven to prevent their capture by the enemy. An old man with an old fashioned rifle, tanding watch over rural fields, on the lookout for German airplanes.
Night scene of a V-2 rocket test launch (also known as an A4 rocket) from Peenemunde Rocket Development Center in Peenemünde, Usedom, Nazi Germany. V-2 rocket ignition and liftoff. View as it rises in the sky. A trail of fire at its tail end during flight. Brief camera view of fire on ground near launch site. Flames arise. (World War II period).
Film opens showing animated map of the Finnish Front during World War 2. Two Finnish women are seen search the horizon with binoculars and keeping a log of some kind. Uniformed Finnish men and women ride with supplies on sleighs pulled by tractors. A group of them are seen at an outdoor field kitchen getting a meal. Women take blood from a uniformed Finnish woman volunteer donor. Women lined up in a wooded area are being decorated by a Finnish officer. A large number of Soviet prisoners of war (some showing minor wounds bandaged) is directed up a hill to begin work on defensive positions. Some carry long logs. Closeup of some prisoners passing the camera. Prisoners shoveling sandy soil and carrying building materials.
Rocket test site construction area in Peenemunde and Kummersdorf Germany during World War 2. Clip begins at Peenemunde and then continues at Kummersdorf at 45 seconds into the clip. Buildings under construction with various signs in German shown. Men enter a completed building. Construction materials, including pipes and bricks, are seen on the ground. Some signs on the building being entered (translated to English): "Police Auxilliary Registration Office"; "barber shop"; "Newspapers, magazines, stationery"
German scientists experiment with rocket propulsion units in Peenemunde, Germany. A static test stand in Peenemunde. A vertically raised platform, the frame support of the mounting units at the stand. A load is moved over tracks on the stand. A propulsion unit is lifted and placed in the vertical test stand. An equipment is railed inside. Buttons on the control panel in the control room. Two scientists preparing for the tests (one appears to possibly be Wernher von Braun). A scientist views through a telescope and adjusts settings. The propulsion unit fires. It releases smoke. The emission exhausts. The scientists monitor from the control room. (World War II period).
German scientists experiments with rocket propulsion units in Peenemunde, Germany. A static test stand in Peenemunde. A vertically raised platform, the frame support of the mounting units at the stand. A scientist (possibly Wernher von Braun?) views through a telescope and adjusts settings. The propulsion unit fires. It releases smoke. The emission exhausts. The scientists monitor from the control room. The experiment is repeated. (World War II period).
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