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Soviet navy coastal defense gun is fired during World War II

Commander of Soviet Artillery battery descends stairway through wooded area and gives orders to Navy coastal defense artillerymen accompanying him. Brief glimpse of steel turret housing a 12"/52 (30.5 cm) gun (railroad gun). Soviet officer using set of dividers and charts to plot firing plan. He phones instructions to naval gun crew, who remove cover from gun barrel. Entire area is wooded, and the gun is covered in tree branch camouflage. Steel side of gun turret contains Russian (cyrillic) writing and the date: 1943, Next sequence shows turret rotating and barrel elevating as gun positions to fire. Sailors carry several powder bags that they place on a roller conveyer along with a shell. All are brought to the gun breech and loaded. Views of the gun being fired, and explosions of shells in distance.

Location: Soviet Union

Date: 1943

Duration: 1 min 27 sec

Sound: Yes

Color: Monochrome

Clip Type: Edited

Language: Russian

Clip: 65675072022

Bodies of Polish victims and their personal effects during the exhumation of mass grave in Katyn Forest (WW2)

Bodies of Polish victims of the 1940 Katyn massacre during World War II. A corpse found from the 1943 exhumation of the mass grave. More remains of Katyn massacre victims. Exhumed corpses lie on the ground. A man shows the corpse of a Polish military officer. Men digging and carrying a corpse on stretcher. A man uncovers a corpse. The man inspects the corpse’s wallet for identification. Polish banknotes and identification papers on wooden table. Pictures of family members and identification cards belonging to Katyn massacre victims. Thousands of corpses exhumed in Katyn Forest. The Red Cross flag is also seen.

Location: Soviet Union

Date: 1943, April

Duration: 2 min 7 sec

Sound: Yes

Color: Monochrome

Clip Type: Edited

Language: German

Clip: 65675080537

The Battle of Białystok–Minsk at outset of German Operation Barbarossa against the Soviet Union in World War II

German Operation Barbarossa in World War 2. Aerial view from inside Adolf Hitler's Ju 52 transport aircraft, of the city of Minsk, Belarus, below. Hitler silhouetted in profile, inside the aircraft, against the aircraft window. View from window as the airplane taxis to parking place. Closeup of enthusiastic German troops cheering Hitler, as he descends steps from the plane. General Field marshal Von Block greets Hitler, Inside German headquarters, Von Bock points to a large map and briefs Hitler on the military situation and operations. Animated map depicts miliary movements from Bialystock to Minsk and then further to Smolensk. German armor is seen pursuing Soviet forces, who have left buildings burning in scorched earth retreat. German troops firing light field artillery (10.5 cm leFH 18 leichte FeldHaubitze) and advancing through smoke over rough terrain. They flush Soviet defenders out of their fortifications. Brief view of destroyed reinforced bunker. Panzer light and medium tanks and move at high speed along roads, cross bridges and waterways and close a ring around Minsk. German and Soviet armor confront each other at close range. As the Germans fire, some soviet vehicles abandon the roadway to escape. German tanks continue to roll, raising clouds of dust. Tanks fire across open fields of grain. Smoke rises from shell strikes. German gunners set up and fire batteries of mixed field artillery including light, medium and heavy guns. Infantry moving house to house in villages. View from behind German gunners firing a maching gun from partially protected position. They duck for cover as enemy round flies close overhead. Soviet prisoners double-time marching along a road.

Location: Minsk Belarus Soviet Union

Date: 1941, June 22

Duration: 5 min 14 sec

Sound: Yes

Color: Monochrome

Clip Type: Edited

Language: German

Clip: 65675028007

Vyacheslav Mikhaylovich Molotov greets General Charles de Gaulle in Moscow.

Vyacheslav Mikhaylovich Molotov and other dignitaries arrive at railway station in Moscow. General Charles de Gaulle gets off a train and is greeted by Molotov. They salute while a Russian band plays 'Marseilles'. Soldiers march behind General de Gaulle. (World War II period).

Location: Moscow Russia Soviet Union

Date: 1944

Duration: 3 min 2 sec

Sound: Yes

Color: Monochrome

Clip Type: Edited

Language: French

Clip: 65675022349

New Soviet Leadership, following death of Stalin, makes public appearance in Red Square. Military parade

New Soviet leadership appears in public, following Stalin's death, in 1953. Russian Officers and troops in formation on Red Square in Moscow. Quick view of people assembled , in the evening, outside UN headquarters in New York. at sunset. View of Spasskaya Tower of Kremlin in Moscow. New Soviet Defense Minister, Bulganin, stands in open automobile, and salutes, as it moves along Red Square where Soviet troops line the way in formation. Huge sign with images of Lenin and Stalin displayed behind troop formation.Quick overview of Moscow, from a height. View of troops in massed formation seen from a height above Red Square. Civilian spectators in organized groups, dressed warmly against the cold. Top Soviet leaders emerge from inside the Kremlin to take their place in the reviewing balcony. Spectators applaud. Leaders including Nikita Khrushchev and Georgi Malenkov. Spasskaya Tower clock strikes. Bulganin is joined by a Soviet military Marshal, also standing in an open car. They drive about, reviewing the troops from the open cars. The cars stop and Bulganin and the Army Marshal get out. Defense Minister Bulganin, in military uniform of a Marshal, climbs to the Kremlin balcony and gives a speech. Cannons fire salutes.Sound track plays national anthem. Armored vehicles and troops fill a broad boulevard. Soviet armed forces put on a grand parade. Soviet leaders salute. Lavrentiy Beria stands to Bulganin's right and to his left, Malenkov and, his far left, Krushchev.

Location: Moscow Russia Soviet Union

Date: 1953

Duration: 7 min 4 sec

Sound: Yes

Color: Monochrome

Clip Type: Edited

Language: Russian

Clip: 65675024223