Post May-Day parade celebration in Moscow. Children enjoy various rides at an amusement park. A post-parade celebration follows with a carnival, dancing and fireworks.
German Heinkel He 111 bombers strike Russian positions near Gomel, Soviet Union during World War 2. German bombers in flight. Pilots in the cockpit of the aircraft. Bombs being dropped. The bombs hit Russian positions and billows of smoke rise up. Explosions occur and smoke rises. The bombs are released from the bombers and hit the targets. Pillars of smoke rise up. The bombers in flight.
The Battle of Stalingrad in Stalingrad, Soviet Union during World War II. Soldiers fire guns. Wreckage on a battlefield. Soldiers push a field artillery. They fire field artillery. A soldier fires from a house. A bomb explosion near a building. The soldiers run out of a house. The soldiers fire from a house. Ruins of bombed out buildings. German aircraft fly in formation. They are attacked by Russian ground fire. A soldier crawls on a battlefield. The soldiers advance and move from under a box car. A bombed out station building. German soldiers advance through the ruins of a bombed railroad station.
Nazi Luftwaffe aircraft drop bombs over Leningrad in Soviet Union during beginning of its siege by German forces in World War II. Buildings in flames, dead and injured civilians. Many anti-aircraft guns and artillery fire on German aircraft. Many search light beams scanning the sky for aircraft. Scenes of night time bombing and destruction in Leingrad. An ambulance being loaded with injured civilians. Russian fire fighters train fire hoses on burning fires caused by bombing. Civilians dig and remove rubble following night blitz bombardment by Luftwaffe. Civilians crying and mourning loss of life. An abandoned baby doll. A dead child on a stair. Crying women and a sad looking boy. Quick scenes of bombing aftermath in London blitz, in Rotterdam, and in Warsaw. Dead elephant from Leingrad Zoo lying on its side. German soldier with orders in hand runs and leaps into sidecar of motorcycle that drives away. German Army soldier helmet shot through with bullet holes lies atop a post.
After bombing Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) in Soviet Union, German forces besiege the city. Soviet troops with weapons in snow covered areas of Leningrad. Soviet tanks on the streets and soldiers escort an inflated barrage balloon down a street. Russian anti-aircraft guns setup and manned in Saint Isaac's Square, with St. Isaac's Cathedral in the background. Russian citizens move about in bitter cold and snowy winter conditions. Some pull sleds with belongings along bomb-damaged streets. Russian soldiers in trenches outside the city work to defend the city. A Russian soldier with a frozen moustache. Soviet soldiers in winter coats lay prone in the snow with rifles and machine guns ready. Dragons teeth anti tank obstacles seen at city edges. Civlians facing disease and famine walk in the streets and gather together. People stand over a frozen blanked-covered body on a street. A man pulls another person hunched over in a sled. A train locomotive covered in snow, idle with no fuel. Idle streetcar trolleys in the streets covered with snow, as there is no electric power to operate them. Streets filled with workers walking to work. After water is shut off due to frozen pipes, civilians gather around a hole dug in the streets and a ditch alongside a street to get to water. They dip buckets into water-filled holes and trenches in the city. A sign describes food rations allowed. Baker cuts bread ration for a civilian factory worker. An army of civilian women workers gather together in the streets to dig and remove rubble from the streets to try to ward off disease and contamination.
Germans fire artillery to shell Leningrad heavily during World War II. Russian people work in factories continuing war production while bundled in warm clothing due to cold. Baker cuts loaves of bread into ration pieces. People move on snow covered streets. Close-up view of German soldiers readying and firing a massive Karl-Gerät (040/041) self propelled siege mortar (also known as Thor or Mörser Karl). Writing on side of the mortar says, "Thor." Other large German rail guns and a variety of German field artillery fire shells at Russian targets in Leningrad A building collapses from shelling. Men and women factory workers continue factory production of war materiel and supplies throughout bombing campaign by Germans. A woman operating a grinder. Rapid montage of scenes of men and women forging iron and creating weapons and arms including shells and grenades. A woman stacks finished artillery shells. A woman war production welder operating a welding torch. People in streets transport dead bodies on sleds and coffins on runners in the snow, as people die from cold, disease, hunger and bombing.