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Crowd of ten thousand students demonstrate in support of Hungary's fight against Red domination by Russia, in Rome Italy.

Students in Italy demonstrate in support of Hungary's fight against Soviet domination (during the Hungarian Uprising or Hungarian Revolution of 1956). A crowd of more than ten thousand students carries posters to against communist rule. Riot and violence follows as efforts of the crowd are controlled by police. People fighting and beating. A policeman tries to stop the rallying students from entering the Communist Party headquarters office in Rome.

Date: 1956, November 1
Duration: 54 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675036658
Russian Tushino air show, 1956.

Five MIG-19 fighters in V formation and AN-8 assault transport flying by during Russian Tushino air show in 1956. A TU-104 passenger airplane and a YAK-26 fighter flying. Views of Ye-2 and Ye-4 test jets from the MiG Design Bureau flying singly. Eight Mi-1 helicopters flying by. U.S. Air Force General Nathan F.Twining in conversation with other USAF (United States Air Force) officials. Views of Soviet flags.

Date: 1956, June 23
Duration: 2 min 42 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675032562
Images pertaining to advance of communism during 20th century, especially in East Germany

Statue of Karl Marx on his grave stone in Highgate Cemetery, London. A picture of Karl Marx. Scenes in Russia around the time of the Russian Revolution circa 1917 and creation of the Soviet Union. Soviet soldiers walking slowly in loose formation. Bolsheviks standing with a large banner. Images spanning many years thereafter: Damaged shops on a street. "One way" street signs in several languages. Large gathering of people carrying signs reading: "Frieden" (Peace, in German). A sign reading: "HALT, Landesgrenze" marking a German provincial boundary. A sign in German, designating the customs border at Furth im Wald, Bavaria ("Zollgrenz-Bezirk, Furth i.Wald"). East German border guards setting obstacles and sentry paths at barbed wire barriers (constituting the Berlin Wall, early on). Picture of Günter Litfin, a twenty-four-year-old tailor, who swam across the Spree Canal to West Germany on 24 August 1961. View of him being fatally shot from across the border, by East German guards, as he is being pulled into West Germany (the first such fatality at the East West German border). Animated map of the world with label references to Berlin,1961; Havana, 1959; Budapest, 1956; Coyoacan, 1940; and Kronstadt, 1921.

Date: 1961
Duration: 2 min 7 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675064322
The opening of the VI Lenin Stadium (Luzhniki Stadium) in Moscow on 31 July, 1956

Spartakiada, a Soviet Union festival of sports held on the opening of the VI Lenin Stadium (Luzhniki Stadium) in Moscow on 31 July, 1956. Participating athletes from all over the Soviet Union as well as other countries, are seen parading in the opening ceremonies. Almost all carry flags and banners. Some accompany decorated floats. Massed flags of participating Soviet republics and other nations are carried in a parade. Pigeons are released as in Olympic openings. Some participants appear to be from Sudan. Behind them in the background a stadium clock displays a sign in Cyrillic reading "МИР," (the World). Women participants dance. Some Asian women dance with fans. Band members massed on the field create a "wave" with a large net over their heads.

Date: 1956, July 31
Duration: 54 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675037536
Obninsk Nuclear Power Plant and electrical towers to transfer power in Russia, Soviet Union.

A scientific documentary film titled 'Atoms For Peace' about peaceful uses of atomic energy in Russia. Aerial view of the Moscow Kremlin. Exteriors of Obninsk Nuclear Power Plant in Obninsk Russia, the world's first nuclear power plant, built in 1954. It is also known as APS-1 Obninsk (Atomic Power Station 1 Obninsk). Interiors of the plant and some of the apparatus. Electrical towers on a field.

Date: 1956
Duration: 1 min 46 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675068347
People giving gifts to be shipped to Russia along with the house bought by Russian engineers, in San Bruno, California.

A documentary titled 'News in Brief' in San Bruno, California. A group of men, women and children in front of a building, collecting things in a carton to be sent to Russia along with the house bought by Russian engineers. The people standing around the box carton. Small girls putting toys into the carton. A man holding a miniature mail box. Another man holds a picture frame with Russian letters. A few men standing beside the wooden house bought by Russian engineers. A carpenter and another man working on the house. A man putting an address label on the house which will be shipped to Russia. The parts of the house on a truck trailer.

Date: 1956, July 30
Duration: 45 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675066314
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