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Marshall Goldman speaks about attempts by Gorbachev to improve sluggish Soviet economy; also early 1980s Poland solidarity movement scenes

The USA-USSR Moscow summit on perestroika in Moscow, Soviet Union. A boat sails in water in front of Red Square buildings in Moscow, Russia, Soviet Union. Traffic on road in Moscow. The expert speaks on the sluggish Soviet economy. Soviet Russian people walk on the streets in a Soviet city (likely Moscow). Some are shopping; some are reading posted material on bulletin boards. Marshall Goldman, a Soviet economist, speaks during a world net telecast. More views of Russian people in front of the shops and on the streets in the 1980s. The U.S. president Ronald Wilson Reagan and General Secretary of the communist party of Soviet Union Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev sign a pact limiting nuclear weapons. Mikhail Gorbachev waves to the people. The people hold balloons as they stand to greet him. Soviet Officials including Gorbachev stand at Kremlin in Red Square during a military parade. Flashback scene during the formation of the Solidarit Labor Union in Poland. ‎Lech Wałęsa, Polish Solidarity leader, speaking to a crowd in the early 1980s. Crowd protests on streets in Poland during time of formation of Solidarity movement. Final scenes of clip show rally in Red Square Soviet Union as balloons rise during celebration or parade, and view of large banner of famous deceased Soviet leaders is seen hanging from buildings.

Date: 1988
Duration: 3 min 53 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675032116
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
Soviet Union mobilizes to defend against German invasion in June, 1941, World War II

A film titled ' Our Russian front. It shows Soviet Russia's state of preparedness and national mobilization at the time of the German invasion (Operation Barbarossa) in 1941, during World War 2. Soviet troops on parade in Red Square, Moscow, carrying Tokarev SVT-40 semi-automatic assault rifles, with curved magazines and fixed bayonets. Glimpse of a Soviet heavy gun (possibly 152mm howitzer). A Soviet Navy gunboat speeding toward the camera. A formation of Polikarpov I-16 aircraft inflight overhead. Several views of soviet forces, including units composed entirely of women; Closeups of troops, some holding Russian RPD 7.62 cal m44 light machine guns. A Soviet T-26 speeding in Red Square with flag flying, during a parade. View from the rear of a line of Soviet Zvezda BT-7 light tanks being deployed along a dirt road. Russian civilians, most of them women, work digging hillside fortifications. Closeup of woman with small boy in her arms. Views of destroyed buildings and dead civilians in a Russian town Aerial view of bombs bursting on Russian city. Smoke rising from resulting fires. Several views of light flashes from artillery firing at night. American envoy, W. Averell Harriman, participant in the U.S.-British military mission to Moscow, broadcasts about Soviet determination to defend against the Nazi invasion, at all costs. He refers to Soviet mechanics assembling American aircraft (Provided under "Lend Lease"). Narrator identifies Harriman as Chairman of the Board of Union Pacific Railroad. View of Russian airplanes in formation, flying high above the State Museum building in Red Square, Moscow. An American Government aircraft (C-47 /DC-3) aircraft lands at Moscow Airport. View of the aircraft parked and surrounded by a large crowd of military and diplomatic attendees. Harriman steps from the plane. Next he is seen with British Lord Beaverbrook and Soviet diplomat, Andrey Yanuaryevich Vyshinsky. Another view of Russian aircraft flying over the State museum in Red Square. U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt (unseen) is heard in the background extolling the Russian efforts against the Nazis. Soviet Tupolev SB bombers in formation overhead. Flags waving Aerial view of a formation of Polikarpov I-16 aircraft in flight. A Komintern Artillery Tractor,carrying Soviet soldiers, tows a 152mm field howitzer. A formation of army vehicles carrying Russian troops along paths already formed in the dirt by prior tracked vehicles. Seen are Komintern Artillery Tractors and ordinary army trucks.

Date: 1941
Duration: 8 min 18 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675038613
Premier Nikolai Bulganin and Nikita Khrushchev give a red carpet welcome to Yugoslavian Marshal Josip Broz Tito in Moscow.

Yugoslavian Marshal Josip Broz Tito in Moscow, Soviet Union. Marshal Tito arrives by train. Premier of the Soviet Union Nikolai Alexandrovich Bulganin, Premier Nikita Khrushchev and other Kremlin officials escort Tito through the city. Huge crowd at the Moscow Kiyevsky railway station (Kiyevsky Station Square, 1, Moscow, Russia, 121059) to welcome Marshal Tito.

Date: 1956, June 9
Duration: 1 min 3 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675064625
Scientists work in a nuclear reactor and animation depicts the process of bombardment to produce energy in Russia Soviet Union.

A scientific documentary film about the peaceful use of atomic energy in Russia. Scientists work on a nuclear reactor. They insert rods inside the reactor. A scientist removes the protective lid of the reactor. Animation depicts : a lattice of rods in the rector. Aluminum coated rods of metallic uranium in the reactor. A nucleus of Uranium consists of protons and neutrons. Neutron bombardment splits the nucleus releasing nuclear energy and neutrons. Initiation of a chain reaction. The rods inserted absorb the extra neutrons. A cross sectional view of the reactor shows a concrete wall around the reactor. Water to reduce the speed of the neutron and to carry heat. Turbo generators used to convert heat to electricity.

Date: 1956
Duration: 4 min 21 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675068348
Atomic reactor for bombardment of materials and scientists handle radioactive isotopes in chambers in Russia Soviet Union.

A scientific documentary film about the peaceful use of atomic energy in Russia. Turbo generators are used to convert heat to electricity. An atomic reactor for bombardment of materials. A rod of the material to be bombarded is inserted inside the reactor. A crane lowers the lid of the reactor. Technicians leave a room. They work on the control panel. Animation depict neutrons being bombarded on the rods. Rays emitted after the bombardment. Alpha particles are stopped by a piece of paper. Electrons are stopped by a slab of glass. Gamma particles are emitted by a thick concrete slab. The rod is removed after bombardment. An operator removes the rod. The rod is placed in a man hold.

Date: 1956
Duration: 4 min 4 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675068349