The Russian Campaign of World War II. A German observation balloon in flight in Soviet Union. An airman looking through binoculars. German soldiers beside artillery on a field. German infantry and tanks moving on a path between fields. Troops and StuG III tank destroyers entering a city. A few German soldiers outside the entrance door of a building. Russian troops surrender and soldiers with raised arms step out of the door. Russian prisoners of war move in columns. German soldiers beside damaged buildings on a city street. Debris strewn on the street. A few soldiers on the bank of a water body. Smoke rising from shelled Russian positions in the background. A German 38t tank moving in water with a soldier atop the hatch. Artillery fired at more positions and smoke rising from the areas. Beute French Hotchkiss and Somua tanks firing at night and flares from the explosions.
The Soviet Red Army in cities in Ukraine during World War II. A map showing the path of movement of Red Army troops through various cities. Russian soldiers on tanks moving along a path on a hill side. Dead German soldiers and horses on the ground. Russian soldiers firing artillery from trenches on the hillside. Explosions occur on German positions and smoke rises. A soldier firing a mortar. A soldier loading shells into the mortar. Soldiers firing guns beside a wire fence. Soldiers in prone position beside artillery. Dead German soldiers lying on the ground. Damaged buildings. Debris strewn on ground. Aerial view of a damaged city. Tanks moving along a path on a street in Yalta. Buildings along a street. The troops moving on tanks. Civilians on a side of a road watch the soldiers. German prisoners marched along a path. A German soldier's body washed ashore on a beach. Dead bodies of several German soldiers lying on the beach. Dead soldiers beside a wire fence. Troops moving on tanks along a Yalta city street.
The Red Army in Yalta, Ukraine during World War II. Scenic views of Yalta. Barrels kept in rows on the ground outside a building. Soviet soldiers are served wine by civilians. The soldiers drinking the wine. Red Army soldiers inside a building. Women officers looking in a mirror. A fort in the city. The soldiers in the fort. Huge statues of lions outside the fort. The soldiers beside the statues. They climb down the steps of the fort. German prisoners of war marched in columns along a path escorted by Russian troops. A map showing the path of movement of Red Army troops through various cities.
Scenes from the Russian Revolution and years immediately after in Russia, roughly 1918-1921. Troops moving in the snow. Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, the Bolshevik leader, makes peace with the Germans. The Civil War breaks out in Russia. White Russians continue war with World War 1 allies, against Germany. Czarist Cossacks seek to restore the monarchy of Nicholas II. Photograph of the Russian Czar and family sitting outdoors on the ledge of a wooden building. Secret police seen arresting people. Bolshevik firing squad executes three prisoners, who fall dead into a mass grave behind them. Lenin, holding a kitten in his hand, seated at a table. March 7, 1921: Workers and sailors gathered on the streets, in Kronstadt, demanding peace, freedom, and bread. Red Army Troops disperse the crowd, shooting many of them. Leon Trotsky, Commander of the Red Army, states that the slaughter was necessary. Trotsky seen walking with other officers. People on the sides of a path watching Trotsky. Families looking over dead workers and sailors in a field.
The Cuban Revolution in Havana, Cuba. Peasants at work in sugar cane field. Clusters of huts in city slums. Poor people in the slums. Small huts along the slums. A girl bathing a child in front of a hut. Fidel Castro, a revolutionary leader, with other guerrillas in a hilly area. Castro, who supports the middle class people, in a crowd. People on streets applaud. Castro with Cuban people. His brother Raul Castro and his associate Che Guevara during a revolution in Guatemala. Castro speaking in a microphone. Other officials beside him. A large crowd listens to him and applauds. Fidel Castro with Cuban Prime Minister Jose Miro Cardona, former Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev and other officials after the overthrow of the Batista government. A Cuban firing squad executing a prisoner.
The Normandy Landings on D-Day in France during World War II. A part of a wrecked LCVP (Landing Craft, Vehicle, Personnel) on the Normandy beachhead. A U.S. Navy LCU (Landing Craft Utility) on the shore. 'US 87' written on the LCU. Several soldiers on the shore. Men going up a gangway to the LCU. A U.S. Navy LCT (Landing Craft, Tank) moving in towards the shore. Several soldiers on the craft. 'US 541' written on the side of the craft. German prisoners standing crowded on the LCT. The LCT moving towards a U.S. Navy attack transport.
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