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Soviet Union film showing capabilities and equipment of Soviet army forces early in World War II

Opening slate states (in Russian) "Our resistance to the enemy gets stronger and grows." Completely hidden in woods are Soviet soldiers using various telescopes and binoculars to observe on the Eastern front during World War 2. An Air Force pilot sits in the cockpit of his hidden Yak 9 fighter plane. View of of its nose and three-bladed propeller. Camera pans across to a hidden Soviet T-34 tank, and then to several Soviet soldiers looking at maps as they sit in front of a tent. Closeup of the soldiers. A BT tank with several crew in it heads toward the camera on a path in the woods. A heavily camouflaged army truck fords a shallow stream. Several soldiers ride past the camera, in a T-26 tank, raising lots of dust. Another T-26 tank passes. A sodier using binoculars. A Soviet tank or self propelled gun carrier with a stubby howitzer and a machine gun internally mounted. Soldiers remove foliage covering a BR-5 280mm mortar, which commences firing. Shells explode raising huge clouds of smoke and earth. Several views of the BR-5 firing in forest. Soviet soldiers crawling along the ground. One rises up and throws two items, in succession. Next a soldier fires a Browning M1917 .30 caliber machine gun. Soviet medics tending wounded. German Messerschmitt Bf 109 in flight overhead. Three Soviet Curtiss-Wright O-52 Owl aircraft fly in loose formation low over a body of water. View from ground of Yak-9 fighter plane coming in over trees to land. A German Bf 109 overhead. Soviet soldier looking through binoculars. Firre and smoke rising in the distance. Burning debris of crashed aircraft displaying Nazi swastika. Closeup of hands as Russian Air Force flyer makes entry into a log. Several smiling Soviet pilots stand together next to a Polikarpov I-153 airplane. They are dressed in leather flying jackets and have their goggles raised atop their hats. An officer with them is not wearing flying clothes. Soviet soldiers explore wreckage of a German warplane. Pieces of the wreckage are piled up in one spot. Several German prisoners are marched along a road guarded by a Soviet soldiers with pistols. A large group of German prisoner are marched in loose formation under guard.

Date: 1941
Duration: 3 min 3 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Russian
Clip: 65675039428
Russian forces resisting German invasion during Operation Barbarossa in World War II

Opening scene shows Soviet infantry moving across a field, near a parked, heavily camouflaged Soviet T-28 medium tank. during World War 2. Closeup of T-28 tank covered in straw, and another in the open in the field in the background. Several views of Soviet heavy artillery firing from camouflaged positions in woods. heavily camouflaged Soviet army trucks moving along a road. Closeup of a wide track Soviet assault tank with offset gun, passing on the road. Soviet soldiers unloading boxes of ammunition. Four Soviet aviators conversing. Airmen loading bombs aboard a Soviet aircraft. Soviet pilots confer before start of mission. They then proceed to their aircraft. One climbs into open cockpit of a Polikarpov I-16 fighter aircraft. A Tupolev SB-2 Katyushka bomber taking off on a grassy field. Closeup of soviet pilot in open cockpit of a MiG-1 fighter plane. Various views of two MiG-1 aircraft with engine running, as they taxis out and take off. View from ground of the two aircraft in flight overhead. A Soviet soldier with binoculars spotting aircraft overhead. Views from aircraft dropping bombs. View from ground of bombs bursting , raising huge clouds. Glimpse, again, of spotter with binoculars. smoke rising from crashed aircraft. Closeup of remains of destroyed German airplane. Aerial view of a Petlyakov Pe-8 bomber dropping bombs on an enemy held airfield. Closeup of gloved hand of pilot in cockpit, releasing bombs. Glimpse from inside the aircraft as bombs fall. Explosions ans smoke from exploding bombs. Fighter planes inflight overhead. Black smoke rising from crashed burning German airplane. Several crashed German planes. Camera pans over wreckage. Body of a German aviator lies on ground next to one wreck. Soviet soldiers examine wreckage and remove parts from some planes. Two stubby Polikarpov I-153 biwing aircraft taxiing across a field. Pilots climbing out of their cockpits. Pilot sliding down the wing of a Tupolev SB-2 Katyushka aircraft. Another SB-2 shuts engines down and a bemedaled Hero of the Soviet Union pilot climbs down from the cockpit and embraces a wounded aviator standing nearby. Scene shifts to German prisoners of war being escorted by armed Soviet soldiers. German prisoners being processed at a camp. A truckload of German prisoners, some ambulatory wounded, are brought to a processing camp. Closeups of several in prison camp.

Date: 1941
Duration: 5 min 23 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675039434
The Red Army troops parade along avenue in the Red Square in Moscow, Soviet Union.

Russian women walking with large shopping carryalls. The Red Army Parade on the Red Square in Moscow, Soviet Union. Bombers fly overhead. The front facade of the Kremlin on the Red Square in Moscow. Workers parade and Red Army troops parade on the Red Square.Momentary view of Lenin's tomb.

Date: 1939
Duration: 34 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675074229
The Red Army troops parade on snow covered avenue in Red Square in Moscow, Soviet Union.

The Red Army Parade on the Red Square in Moscow. The front facade of the Kremlin on Red Square in Moscow. General Secretary of Communist Party of Soviet Union Joseph Stalin inside a building. Groups of people carrying articles of commerce. View of St. Basil's and Clock Tower on Red Square. Policeman directing traffic. View from high above of line of citizens snaking along below.

Date: 1939
Duration: 17 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675074230
Soldiers and civilians wearing gas masks and uniforms parade as they demonstrate air raid precautions in Moscow, Soviet Union.

Demonstration of air raid precautions in Moscow, Soviet Union. Soldiers and civilians gather for the demonstration. They wear uniforms and gas masks. The gas-masked troops and civilians parade. Buildings along the sides of the street.

Date: 1939, July 26
Duration: 33 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675076323
Germany launches Operation Barbarossa against the Soviet Union, which has been mobilizing for war, during World War II

Film begins with animated map depicting conquest of the Balkans by the German-Italian Axis powers. With Southern flank now protected, Germany begins Operation Barbarossa, the invasion of the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941, View of German troops goosestepping on parade in large formation. German troops being transported on parade in formation of wheeled open personnel carriers. Glimpse of upper part of Spasskaya Tower and clock overlooking Red Square in Moscow, Soviet Union. View of Soviet heavy industry complex with many smoke stacks. New farm tractors being moved on a railroad train. Scene segues into train carrying Soviet tanks, and then continues with scenes in a steel mill, a machine shop, a tank factory, and an artillery plant. Soviet troops parade bearing left shouldered rifles and singing as they march. Soviet civilian men are seen reporting for duty in the military and then training in hills overlooking a war plant complex. New Soviet recruits training with calisthenics and with small arms. A Soviet soldier speeds past the camera on a motorcycle and segues into a soldier on a horse jumping over a barrier, and then into several Soviet soldiers in uniforms, with rifles, diving into a swimming pool and swimming across it. Film ends showing Soviet troops in formation bringing their rifles from present arms position to pointing forward, as they march.

Date: 1941
Duration: 59 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675065791