Test Baker during Operation Crossroads at Bikini atoll in the Pacific Ocean during the Cold War. U.S. Navy LSM-60 landing ship anchored in the midst of the target fleet at the Bikini atoll. Large smoke cloud mushrooms up after atomic bomb blast beneath ship.
Communists march in New York City. Many carry American flags. They hold banners which read 'Communist Party New York State Committee'. Spectators gathered on the street to watch the rally. A float in the rally. Banner reads: "Abraham Lincoln Brigade Fights Again." and veterans march for peace. Workers of Celeste shop and United May Day Committee members participate in the rally. Several workers unions are represented. A man collects money for charity. A float of Italian Americans moves on the street. Contingents of Army and Navy veterans in uniform participate in the march.
The Parliamentary Election day in Prague, Czechoslovakia. A tramway with number 1 (Communist Party) on it passes the Communist Party headquarters and through a crowd of Czechoslovakian citizens. Czech citizens on a street read newspapers. A car with loudspeakers on its top passes through the crowd. The street littered with election literature.
A Communist party meeting held in Prague, Czechoslovakia after the parliamentary elections. Views in the lobby of the Communist Party headquarters shows people looking at photos of Vladimir Lenin and Czech personalities including Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, Bedrich Smetana and others. A meeting of the Communist party after the elections. Members at long tables stand up and applaud. Party officials seated at a long table in the front beneath large hanging pictures of Stalin and Gottwald. Communist Interior minister Václav Nosek proposes Chairman of the meeting Klement Gottwald as their new Prime Minister. Closer view of the photos of Klement Gottwald and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin with two sentences written in Czech: 'With Gottwald we won' and 'With Gottwald we must achieve our plan'.
A commemoration ceremony for the Lidice massacre by the Germans during World War II. A crowd gathered on the emplacement of Lidice which had been leveled by the Germans. The place is marked with a cross with a crown of thorns. Russian emblems surrounding the respective flags. An official tribune decorated with flags of Allied nations. The crowd listens to speeches given by dignitaries.
A cemetery in Terezin, Czechoslovakia, site of the Theresienstadt Ghetto. Terezin was a concentration camp for political prisoners in Bohemia during World War II. Graves at the cemetery. A rough cross made of a vertical piece of wood crossed with metal slabs with words '26,000 victims of German Nazism' in French, English, Czech and Russian.
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