Czech newspapers announcing the illness and later death of Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin. Newspapers dated 4th March 1953. Czech civilians read announcement from bulletin boards. Families listen to radio.
Czechoslovakian Chief of Police swears in new officers in Prague’s Old Town Square (Staroměstské nám., 110 00 Josefov, Czechia). Police troops parade around Old Town Square and surrounding streets. Czechoslovakian Interior Minister Vaclav Nosek meets Security-Service General Frantisek Janda. Vaclav Nosek speaks to assembled officers and Catholic priests.
Czechoslovakian women soldiers watch a demonstration during their emergency wartime duty training (early in the Cold War). Female Czechoslovakian soldiers learn first-aid wrapping techniques. Czechoslovakian women go over obstacle course by climbing, jumping and crawling. Spectators cheer on their comrades going over the obstacle course. A young Czechoslovakian woman stands up after crawling from obstacle and runs. Young Czechoslovakian woman successfully blocks her classmate holding pistol during self-defense training. Czechoslovakian women watch self-defense demonstration during training. Young Czechoslovakian women toss hand grenades together during training. Czechoslovakian women lying face down in field. Czechoslovakian women lie down and aim rifles in formation during rifle firing lesson. A box with small human figures as targets for rifle firing training. Young Czechoslovakian woman soldiers adjusts her rifle, aims, and shoots targets.
French military police with motorcycles stand near a crowd of French civilians outside a church in France near the end of World War 2. U.S. Army personnel with handheld cameras take pictures of services. Parisian girl standing with a U.S. Army soldier. Military Police lined up in front of the cathedral entrance. Bishops emerge from the church. General de Gaulle leaves the church in a motorcade. French car with a military official seated inside and four stars on the pIate. French soldiers as they give rifle salutes. Church cleric talking to a French officer. Gendarmes standing among civilians and American officer standing with a WAC (Women's Army Corps) officer. British guards lined up as people emerge from the church. Guard of Honor in the fore ground. Elderly French woman and man leave the church. GIs enters the church. Russian Bishop emerges from the church and enters car. French civilians around the church including children and a young boy on the shoulders of a man.
Two trucks and a bus full of liberated French prisoners drive down an avenue in Paris. A large Parisian crowd including young girls watch their arrival. People wave out to welcome the prisoners as they wave back. Sign on bus stating 'Repatriated Prisoners'. Shots of French prisoners as a civilian offers them cigarettes. A Parisian volunteer nurse. Trucks of prisoners pull up before a building. Algerian prisoner as he drinks from a bottle of wine. A French soldier. (World War II period).
A large crowd including elderly women welcomes the liberated French prisoners to France. Truck of liberated French prisoners arrives amidst the waiting civilians. French girls wave to disembarking prisoners as the smiling prisoners wave back. Young girls hug and kiss the prisoners.Civilians cheer and applaud their return. Little girls wave in the crowd. Prisoners eat bread and drink from wine bottle. A prisoner holds the French flag. Liberated Senegalese prisoners. (World War II period).
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