Soviet-United States cultural exchange program in Moscow, Russia. Eric Johnston, President of the Motion Pictures Association of America (MPAA) and Turner Shelton of the United States Information Agency (USIA), are seen together with Russian Deputy Minister of Culture Vladimir Surin (also director of Mosfilm Studios), as they sign an agreement in the Soviet Union (the Lacy-Zarubin Agreement). Documents on the table. Flags of the United States of America and Soviet Union on the table. The agreement will make available ten top Hollywood films for distribution to Soviet movie theaters. The officials stand and shake hands after signing the agreement.
Wide views of the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Soviet Union. Cars and traffic on busy streets of city of Moscow. Molotov, Foreign Minister, welcomes a number of dignitaries at airport and at a railroad station in Moscow, Soviet Union, as they arrive for the "European Conference on Peace and Security in Europe" held from November 20 - December 2, 1954 (a Soviet-organized event serving as a propaganda counter to NATO and western alliances). Scenes at airport as locomotive train and railroad cars arriving at railway station and dignitaries of various soviet regions greet Molotov and other officials. Dignitaries including representatives of Estonia, Latvia and Czechoslovakia review honor guards and parades.
A crowd in Russia gathered for the first lottery of a new internal loan for 3%. Children select winning lottery tickets from a spinning drum on stage in Russia. Winning numbers are displayed on a board. Attendees in the audience view their tickets.
The motorcade of President Nixon on the roads of Moscow, Russia, Soviet Union during his visit there. Posters of Vladimir Lenin along the roads and streets of Moscow. Soviet Premiere Leonid Brezhnev and other leaders welcome Nixon and other delegates. Dignitaries, including Nixon, Brezhnev, and Gorbachev, during a state dinner. Various agreements signed during the visit, including one to sell grain to the USSR. Shots of a combine harvesting wheat in the United States. Nixon and Dr. Henry Kissinger confer at the White House. Nixon and Brezhnev sign the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty to limit nuclear arms on May 26. The President addresses directly the people of the Soviet Union on May 28. Footage shows Nixon laying a wreath at the cemetery for the dead from the siege of Leningrad during World War 2. Various shots of young Soviets as Nixon explains the story of Tanya Savicheva, a 12 year old girl who kept a diary describing the siege of Leningrad. A photo of Tanya is seen. The U.S. Congress welcomes and cheers for President Nixon. From a pro-Nixon "documentary" called "The Nixon Years: Change Without Chaos" covering President Richard Nixon's first four years in office. Released during his 1972 reelection campaign.
The funeral ceremony of General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Joseph Stalin in Moscow, Soviet Union. Honor guard at his coffin, lying in the Hall of Columns at the House of the Unions (Ulitsa Bol'shaya Dmitrovka, 1, Moscow, Russia, 125009), include: Vyacheslav Molotov; Kiment Voroshilov; Lavrenti Beria; and Georgy Malenkov. Another view of honor guard members includes Nikolai Bulganin; Nikita Khrushchev; lazar Kaganovich; and Anastas Mikoian. A picture of Stalin placed on a building. A large crowd of civilians enters the Hall of Columns. General Zhukov seen on the stairs of the Hall.
Tourists visit Red Square in Moscow, Soviet Union. View of the Nikolskaya Tower, Kremlin Arsenal and the Spasskaya Tower at the Moscow Red Square (Red Square, 3, Moscow, Russia, 109012). The tourists stand in front of Lenin's Tomb (Red Square, 1, Moscow, Russia, 109012). Former Soviet Parliament building in the background.
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