Views of Russian during famine following World War 1. Journalist Arthur Ransome (smoking a pipe) and cameraman George Ercole (smoking a cigar) pose at a railroad yard on the Latvian-Russian border. They talk with Latvian and Russian guards and then board a train and depart to record observations in famine-stricken Russia. Views of near-deserted village abandoned by inhabitants seeking food elsewhere. Refugees camping outdoors, on the banks of the Volga River. They share their meager food supplies. Refugee encampments near towns. A cemetery full of white crosses set up near a refugee camp. Refugee peasants housed in railroad freight cars. Large group of starving Russian children.
German forces during World War II. German forces fire at Russian positions as a Nazi soldier looks through binoculars. Nazi cavalry units march across a field in Russia. Russian troops fight from underground positions. Nazi troops enter a Russian village and set it on fire. Russian civilians taken as prisoners. A Nazi officer interrogates them.
Russian scientists return to Russia. Scientists disembark from a ship as they return to Leningrad after they were rescued from drifting ice sheets. A large number of people gather to welcome them. Scientists ride past a crowded street. People welcome the scientists with a mass ticker tape parade on their arrival in Moscow. Scientists in a car move past a large crowd.
Freight trains loaded with wheat and oil on their way to Germany from Russia during World War II. Workers load wheat in a train. Officers near a train. A man opens the lid of a tanker. Men put pipes in tankers of a freight train.
Italian troops in Russia celebrating Christmas. A truck driven on a snow covered road. Soldiers collect bottles of wine. Meat slices on a table. A soldier uses a funnel to pour a drink into another soldier's cannister. Bread, meat and drinks distributed among soldiers. Soldiers collect their food in utensils. They distribute cards or other goods to children. A truck and a horse carriage driven on a snow covered road. A soldier on skis moves on snow among trees. He reaches a trench and distributes mail packages to the Italian soldiers. They open their Christmas packages and crouch down as the Russians fire artillery at their positions. They smoke cigarettes. (World War II period).
Allied cavalry and infantry ski troops in Russia during World War I. The cavalry soldiers ride horses down the snow covered slopes and infantry ski in the snow.
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