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Huge crowd, in Tabriz, celebrates friendship pact between Azerbaijan People's Government and Soviet Union

Soviet and Iranian military officers shake hands with each other in Tabriz, Azerbaijan, Iran. Russian and Iranian newspapers announce the formal recognition by the Soviet Union of the Azerbaijan People's Government (a Soviet puppet entity in Iranian Azerbaijan) on April 8, 1946. People celebrate the friendship pact between the Azerbaijan People's Government and the Soviet Union. Crossed flags of the Soviet Union and and Azerbaijan People's Government seen. Women picking flowers and decorate a poster of Joseph Stalin. Soviet and Azerbaijan military parade in the streets of Tabriz. Military officers hold a ceremony including presentation of an elaborate Iranian dagger. A tank rides through the street. Men riding horses. School children wave Soviet and Azerbaijan flags. A ceremony of pouring liquid from two jugs and reflecting it in a mirror. Muslim women present flowers to soldiers passing on horseback. Soldiers in a jeep throw pamphlets, with picture of Joseph Stalin on them, to the crowd. Huge crowd gathered. Women with covered heads. At the Tabriz City Hall, crowds hold a huge portrait of their leader, Sayyed Ja'far Pishevari. There are more ceremonial exchanges of tokens of friendship. A hand-written letter, ostensibly from Joseph Stalin, bearing his image, is shown. Elaborately framed pictures of Soviet Generals are seen. Silver tray engraved in Russian and Arabic is shown. Muslim women and children. Views of parade from high building. Column of Soviet tanks. Woman throws liquid from jug, ceremoniously.

Date: 1946, April 8
Duration: 7 min 20 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Russian
Clip: 65675041187
Implementation of the Mao Zedong led economic and social plan titled the 'Great Leap Forward' in Red China.

Postwar living conditions in the People’s Republic of China under the Communist regime of Mao Zedong (Mao Tse-Tung) photographed by Indians visiting the country. The film highlights China's problems of industry, agriculture, and excess population. Advertisements and posters for the Mao Zedong led economic and social plan titled the 'Great Leap Forward' in 1958. Objectives of the plan. Agriculture, industry, and education in China, including brief shot of men, women, and children in classroom, possibly for re-education. Men and women work in factories and plants. A Russian sign reads 'Made in the Soviet Union'. Workers inside a huge automatic automotive plant set up and supplies by the Soviet Union (SU). A steel and iron company rebuilt and enlarged with the aid of Soviet Union. A seamless steel tube mill supplied and erected by the SU. A plant designed, equipped, and built by SU technicians. A bridge over a river. Women work in a high voltage testing laboratory equipped by the East German government. A fully automatic petroleum refinery built by the Japanese. A heavy gilding machine plant started by the Japanese in 1937. Various factories, plants, and industries in China. Rural farmland and irrigation. People work in backyard furnaces, factories, presses, rolling mills and automotive factories. Deserted city streets with few cars. Workers inside an automotive plant. Communist Party of China Chairman Mao Zedong signs a pact with the Premier of the Soviet Union Nikita Khrushchev. Newspaper headlines regarding the disagreements leading to rifts in the China-Soviet relations in 1960. The Soviet Union withdraws technicians and support from China resulting in closure of industries. Statistics highlight China's dropping industrial production in steel, coal, electricity, and petroleum compared to that of USA, Soviet Union, and United Kingdom.

Date: 1961
Duration: 6 min 21 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675021675
German invasion of the Soviet Union in World War II turns into slow moving grim house-by-house battle in Soviet cities.

German Operation Barbarossa, invasion of the Soviet Union in World War 2. Opening scene of film shows wartime damage near the sand bag protected Opera and Ballet Theater building in Odessa during World War 2. Glimpse of a Soviet armored vehicle, derived from an STZ-3 agricultural tractor, used during the Siege of Odessa. View of Soviet defenders running through a trench, during the two month German siege. View of Sevastopol, Crimea. A statue in the foreground and Legislative Assembly building in the background, with dense white smoke rising from behind it. Soviet soldiers firing a large defense gun in a Gorky fortress; firing a large gun from a seaport wharf and from a railroad car, and Soviet troops firing small arms in fields, including Degtyaryov machine guns. A Soviet soldier firing a Maxim heavy machine gun. View from overlooking hill of the Odessa Black Sea Naval Base. German troops entering the fringes of Sevastopol. One throws a hand grenade. Views of Soviet defenders firing machine guns. In the city, German soldiers fight street by street. Several are seen scurrying along a sidewalk, keeping close to a building for protection. Others rush into damaged buildings trying to flush out Soviet defenders with hand grenades. Camera pans over ruins of the destroyed city of Sevastopol. Dead German soldiers lying in ruins. One lies atop across the front of a Panzer VI tank. His uniform is in flames. Closeup of his hand. More dead German soldier are seen on the ground near a knocked out German tank. View of a large crowd of people. Soviet officers on horseback review a formation of troops. Glimpse of marching armed Soviet soldiers.

Date: 1941, June
Duration: 1 min 37 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675065794
U.S.and Soviet efforts at disarmament during Reagan-Gorbachev era

Film opens with U.S.President Ronald Reagan commenting about mistrust between America and the Soviet Union. View of President Ronald Reagan and Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev signing the arms control agreement banning the use of intermediate-range nuclear missiles, at the White House in Washington, DC on December 8, 1987. A Soviet RT-2PM Topol mobile ICBM moving on its carrier vehicle. A U.S. intermediate range missile being launched. Another view of U.S.President Reagan and Soviet General Secretary signing the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF Treaty) on December 8, 1987, to become effective on June 1, 1988. Views of ICBMs being test launched from silos. A Soviet Tupolev Tu-95 strategic bomber in flight, seen from the side and from underneath. A U.S. Navy heavy cruiser, armed with cruise missiles. Closeup of a cruise missile rising from the ship and firing across it toward a target. Illustration of a seaborne missile fired from a warship. General Secretary Gorbachev in a group, including his wife, Raisa, visiting a Soviet Navy submarine. Major General William F. Burns, Head of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (in civilian clothes), is seen raising doubt about the feasibility of the Soviet suggestion to use scientific methods for checking from a distance about arms control compliance. Artist conception of satellites being shot down in space. Secretary of State, George Schultz and his wife, Helena Maria, descending steps from an airplane upon landing at Moscow, in the Soviet Union to confer with Soviet leaders in Moscow on Nov. 4, 1985, in preparations for the meeting between President Reagan and Mikhail S. Gorbachev, the Soviet leader, later in the month in Geneva, on November 19th and 20th. Negotiating teams assembling in a meeting room in Moscow. Secretary Schultz and Soviet Foreign Minister, Eduard A. Shevardnadze conversing. William F. Burns, saying, " I think we are well on the road to achieving a useful, good, and balanced treaty." Views of civilians killed by chemical weapons in the Iran-Iraq war. Soldiers in protective gear associated with chemical weapons. One soldier decontaminating a tank using a water hose. Tanks moving in Europe. U.S. troops firing an antiaircraft gun. Scenes of World War II showing conventional arms being used on tanks and from landing craft. Afghan fighters carrying a wounded comrade. Glimpse of soldiers in a trench firing a mortar and one firing a machine gun, during the Iran-Iraq war. An armored personnel carrier moving across a muddy field. More views of Reagan and Gorbachev signing the INF treaty in 1987. A U.S. spokesman noting that the USSR has not changed the offensive nature of its force structure and deployment patterns.

Date: 1987, December 8
Duration: 4 min 1 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675032113
Events on the Eastern front early in World War II; Nazi Germany battles Russia

Goosestepping German troops on the march and German Panzer I tanks moving in formation across a field in World War 2. A formation of German Fieseler Fi 156 Storch airplanes in flight overhead, accompanied by two He-111 bombers. German paratroopers jumping from Ju-52 aircraft. Grand Admiral Erich Johann Albert Raeder head of the German Navy, making a statement. Bucolic scenes of European farm country and grape vineyards, with local people harvesting crops and grapes. Soviet troops marching on parade to a military band on the sidelines in Red Square, Moscow, soviet Union. Soviet motorcycle soldiers armed with light machine guns. Soviet T-26 light tanks in formation. Glimpse of Red Square, with St. Basil's Cathedral and other famous buildings. Soviet troops crossing a river on inflated boats. A long column of T-26 tanks moving along a dirt road. Sky filled with variety of Soviet warplanes, including four-engine bombers (with fixed landing gear) to bi-wing aircraft. Soviet paratroopers jumping from a Tupolev ANT-6 bomber. They climb out on the huge corrugated wing and slide off. View out past the tail of an ANT-6 bomber. Soviet Union and Japan conclude a neutrality pact. Views of the pact being signed by Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov for the Soviet Union and by Japanese Foreign Minister Matsuoka and Ambassador Yoshitsugu, for the Japanese, in Moscow on April 13, 1941. Joseph Stalin is observing in the center of the scene.

Date: 1941
Duration: 1 min 47 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675072841
Soviet Union ships and submarines underway at sea. Soviet Tu-16 strategic bombers operate

Radar warning systems operating in Soviet Union. High ranking Soviet Naval Officers conferring in Operations Center. Soviet Union crews respond to alert, running over snowy wharf to man their strategic submarines. Submarine underway at sea. Soviet Union aircrews run, over snowy tarmac, to board their Tupolev Tu-16 strategic bomber. Soviet Union Military Chiefs confer, referring to.maps on a table. Soviet Tu-16 strategic bomber takes off.

Date: 1975
Duration: 60 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675054397