A map shows area around Orel in Russia. German forces fall back from Orel. Military trucks and trains carry material to the front. German tanks, artillery, antiaircraft guns, buses and aircraft. German soldiers in a field. Soviet prisoners. A German officer talks to a captured Soviet soldier. The Soviet prisoners stack arms. Large quantities of captured armor and equipment and arms. German Pz.IV Lang tank beside a cottage. Soldiers sit in a group as one plays an accordion. German soldiers bathe, get a haircut and clean themselves. Two German soldiers read a newspaper with a German Shepherd dog beside them. Others eat and drink. (World War II period).
Christmas preparation in Petrograd (Saint Petersburg), very soon after the Russian Revolution (or "October Revolution") brought Lenin, the Bolsheviks, and Soviets regime in control in Russia. People move goods on the snow covered streets using sleds. Facing shortages of fuel, people collect and carry wood to burn from a dock. Citizens stacking and carrying timbers for fuel. With men involved in revolution and in World War I, women workers clean roads of city, working together in a group with brooms.
Soviet-United States cultural exchange program in Moscow, Russia. Eric Johnston, President of the Motion Pictures Association of America (MPAA) and Turner Shelton of the United States Information Agency (USIA), are seen together with Russian Deputy Minister of Culture Vladimir Surin (also director of Mosfilm Studios), as they sign an agreement in the Soviet Union (the Lacy-Zarubin Agreement). Documents on the table. Flags of the United States of America and Soviet Union on the table. The agreement will make available ten top Hollywood films for distribution to Soviet movie theaters. The officials stand and shake hands after signing the agreement.
Shows large numbers of war planes in the skies over Moscow, Russia during a military strength demonstration for Soviet leadership. Tupolev TB-3 transports and bombers among the aircraft (civilian designation ANT-6). The TB-3 were the world's first cantilever wing, four engine heavy bombers. They had corrugated skin covering. Joseph Stalin and Vyacheslav Molotov watch the skies during a review in World War II. Russian planes drop bombs on fields. Bombs explode on the fields. Russian paratroopers climb out onto the wing of Tupolev TB-3 aircraft in flight. Troops on wings of the TB-3 aircraft in mid air. Paratroopers slide off from the wings and are airborne, opening parachutes.
Romanian delegation headed by Romanian Prime Minister Petru Groza, foreign minister Anna Pauker, and Communist leader Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej is leaving from Moscow, Russia, Soviet Union, after signing a Mutual Assistance treaty on February 4, 1948. The delegation at a railroad train station is seen off by the Russian foreign secretary Vyacheslav Molotov and vice foreign secretary Andrei Vyshinskii. Prime Minister Groza gives the departing address on Russian-Romanian relations. February 1948.
Views of the signature page on the German surrender document, ending World War II in Europe. Scenes of devastation in Berlin with many buildings and bridges reduced to rubble, including the Reichstag building. A victory parade in Moscow, Russia after signing of Nazi surrender. Victory parade by military troops in Moscow. Troops march with rifles, salute Josef Stalin and others on review stand. Huge crowd gathered singing victory hymns. Soviet citizens cheer and present bouquets to Russian soldiers and lift them. Women laugh. Fireworks at night in Moscow to celebrate the victory.