The Russian Campaign of World War II. A German soldier walking in front of a damaged hut in the Soviet Union. Debris in the hut. Smoke rising from shelled Russian positions on a field. Debris scattered on the field. Smoke rising from a burning barn. A soldier looking through binoculars. German infantry and tanks moving on a path between fields. Russian prisoners of war with raised hands moving on a path. German tanks moving beside them. Smoke rising from burning buildings. Debris lying on the side of a path. A soldier on a motorcycle moving on the path.
Russian Imperial Cossack cavalrymen water their horses at two wells in winter (snow on ground) during World War 1. They use ropes on large wheels to raise buckets of water from the wells. Soldiers huddle around a fire , each using his own spoon, to eat from a common pot.
Footage dealing with the Russian Revolution. Painting of Vladimir Llyich Lenin speaking to workers. photograph of hand-written speaking notes. Large crowd of Russians gathered and listening to a Bolshevik speaker at a public square. They hold banners and flags. The hide outs of Vladimir Llyich Lenin during exile period and painting of same. massive crowd of Russians raise and lower their hands. Citizens walk through the streets holding banners. Elevated view of Russian crowd of worker demonstrators that scatters and runs as shooting (presumably from Imperial Russian Army forces) begins and breaks up the protest. Debris left after the shooting. Identification papers used by Lenin, with an alias, showing him clean shaven and with a wig. Scenes of Finland where Lenin went, by way of Petrograd, on April 16,1917. Lake, hay stack, rough hay-covered shelter and fire pit with kettle hanging over it. A forest glen and rustic wooden house, with Lenin's office in a hay loft.
Perhaps as part of campaign to denigrate holy relics, and to question incorruptibility, a secular Bolshevik Russian man is seen on an outdoor stage holding an electric device with wires connected to it. He displays bones of a Saint to crowd of persons. Men on stage hold up various bones of the saint. Snow on ground. Crowd of soldiers and civilians shows mixed emotions during this anti-religious campaign of the Russian Civil War, following the Russian Revolution.
A film on U.S. shuttle-bombing operations in "Operation Frantic" over Germany, operating from bases in Great Britain, Italy and the Soviet Union during World War II. Aircraft parked at an air base in Poltava, Ukraine, Soviet Union. Nose art and painted insignias on the U.S. Army Air Force aircraft. American crewmen standing near the bomber aircraft. They sleep in tents. They wake up and get ready. A group of Soviet civilian workers walks by with farming tools. A man shaves. Others wash their faces. American Colonel Albert Kepler and Russian officers confer for their next bombing mission. They select target areas for the bombardment. Gasoline, bombs, ammunition and other supplies are provided to the crew. American and Russian crewmen of a bomber aircraft play baseball and cards and interact. Some American soldiers write letters home. Others milk a cow with a Soviet soldier. Crewmen drive in a jeep to visit the nearby town where German bombing campaigns have destroyed many buildings in Poltava. They view a destroyed leather industry factory, and the grave of Ukrainian writer Vladimir Korelenko. They see only rubble remaining of the birth home of Korolenko. Damaged buildings and rubble in the area. People walking on a street. The American soldiers interact with the Ukrainian civilians of the town. Women and children of the town are seen. Closeup view of the hand of a a U.S. Army soldier as he hands out chewing gum candy to eager Ukrainian children. On the way back to the base the soldiers view the Column of Glory in Poltava, honoring the 1709 Battle of Poltava.
Russian troops rest during a snowstorm in World War 1. Russian soldiers chatting, eating from bowls, and drinking while sitting in the snow. Soldiers waiting in line for food. Rifles arranged as tripods. Campfires are erected beside soldiers. Russian soldiers eating soup in front of campfire.