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Germans besiege Leningrad in Soviet Union during World War II; Russian citizens try to cope in desperate deprivation conditions

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.

Date: 1943
Duration: 1 min 55 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058275
German troops advance and bridges, fields, dams and power grids bombed in Soviet Union during World War II.

German soldiers attack Soviet Union during the World War II. German artillery fired. The German soldiers advance on horses. Shells kept on ground. The soldiers advance and walk on ruins. A woman wipes tears. Men hanged to death by the Germans. Dead bodies of Russians lying on snow covered ground. The soldiers on tank advance to Ukraine. Farmers on field. A tractor driven on field. A destroyed power grid. The Soviet farmers burn the unharvested wheat. The farmers carry baggage and leave village. The bridges, power plants and dams blown up. Men and women join forces. Aerial view of the city of Saint Petersburg including the Peter and Paul Fortress. The German officers near an artillery on the roof of a building in Moscow. The German men carry wooden log in Caucasus. The Soviet soldiers advance in prone position. A soldiers cuts a wire mesh fence. The tanks move through a field. The soldiers fire artillery. The aerial view of the bombed city. A building being bombed. An animation map depicts : the German occupation on Stalingrad and Caucasus. The Germans advance to the Suez.

Date: 1944
Duration: 2 min 11 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675067754
Post-World War 1 events in Russia

Crowd milling about in Kronstadt, West of Saint Petersburg,Russia, as group of Russian sailors, soldiers and civilians, marches in their midst carrying a Sign reading "Peace, Freedom, and Bread." On March 7, 1921, The Bolshevik government sends 60,000 troops under command of Mikhail Tukhachevsky to quell the disturbance. They are seen marching in the streets. Next scene shows women looking amongst the fallen for their relatives. View of Leon Trotsky (Commander of the Red Army) walking with some of his staff. View of human remains. Brief view of Lenin. Trotsky writing at his desk. Narrator mentions the State Security Agency called "Cheka," being replaced by the Joint State Political Directorate (AKA OGPU). Narrator calls it the Political Police. Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov is seen walking with a group of Soviet workers and politicians ostensibly charged with overseeing the OGPU. Another scene shows Molotov conversing with Joseph Stalin (Iosif Vissarionovich Stalin). Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin stands to Stalin's left. views of Stalin. Lev Kamenev, a leader in Moscow City politics. Russian families on a train platform preparing to travel in box cars (to Siberia?). farmers harvesting grain in Russia. A woman shopkeeper cuts a loaf of bread in pieces and weighs them on a scale for sale to a customer. American foodstuffs provided as aid to Russia. Some of the American food being unloaded at a pier. American Relief Administration Chief, Herbert Hoover, standing at a port. Food being distributed to Russian citizens, and to children. Newspaper of March 14, 1923, announces the Lenin suffers a stroke. In January, 1924, a newspaper headline announces that "Lenin is dead." Lenin seen in coffin. Funeral cortege, including principal Soviet leaders, carries the coffin outdoors in falling snow. Spectators watch and others follow in the solemn funeral march. Narrator states that "Stalin,Zinoviev, and Kamenev force Trotsky into exile." Soviet citizens are seen at hard labor under new "Five year plans."

Date: 1924
Duration: 2 min 56 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675064327
Shooting of Bernt Leuton in 1961 explained in context of Soviet history, beginning with Czar Nicholas II and Russian Revolution of 1917

A picture of Bernt Leuton, a resident of East Berlin East Germany, who fled to West Berlin West Germany. Border guards at the Communist side of Berlin in East Germany. View of Leuton on August 13, 1961 after being shot by an East German guard, after successfully swimming across the connecting canal. He is hauled out by West German guards. A map of the world. Narrator begins to trace history of Bernt Leuton's shooting by recounting prior events in history of Russia and Soviet Union. View of the Winter Palace of Czar Nicholas II, with the Czar and Czarina Alexandra standing on a balcony. Saint Petersburg, Russia on January 22nd , 1905 : Peasants and workers, with their leader Russian Orthodox Priest, Father Georgi Gapon, gathered outside the palace to deliver a petition to Czar Nicholas II. A number of the people carry banners. A picture of Czar Nicholas II. Reenactment of Czar's armed cossack cavalry dispersing the crowd, The words 'My autocracy will remain unchanged' issued by the Czar to which Father Gapon replies that they "no longer have a Czar." Picture of Father George Gapon. Picture of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, and moving images of Lenin speaking. The Czar Nicholas II and his wife, escorted by guards, moving on a path during a ceremony. The Czar mounting a horse and the guards saluting him. A picture of the Czar's wife and hemophiliac son. Picture of Russian mystic Grigori Rasputin, whose occult powers were believed to have kept the Czar's son alive.

Date: 1905, January 22
Duration: 2 min 58 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675066487
Scenes of Petrograd (St Petersburg) after World War I and the Russian Revolution. U.S ship carrying relief supplies is docked.

Soon after World War 1, a tugboat leads two ships through narrow open water channel in frozen Russian bay. Buildings and trees in the far background. View of area covered with snow. Children wearing warm clothes stand in front of ship on which is written: 'Margus Newark USA'. An American flag flutters on the flag pole of the ship. The children pose for photograph. A cinematographer hand cranks his movie camera on a city street. Other men stand with him. Buildings along the sides of snow covered street.

Date: 1919
Duration: 32 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675045911
Irmgard Dietel, 17 wins the Miss Florida contest in Miami, Florida.

Miss Florida competition in Miami, Florida. The contestant of the contest walk down the stairs in colorful costumes. Spectators watch them from the stands. The judge of the competition gives a trophy to the winner Irmgard Dietel, 17.

Date: 1938, March 7
Duration: 33 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675033898