City of Novorossiysk is recaptured by Russians from Germany. Russian heavy artillery fired. Buildings in view. Smoke rises up due to explosions. Russian soldiers observe the area through binoculars. Russian soldiers aboard the ships. Naval and aerial bombardment on the city. Intense street fights. Wrecked and damaged buildings in view. Rubble on street. Russian soldiers cheer as Russians recapture Novorossiysk. (World War II period).
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 corpseās 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.
Russian troops on eastern front during World War II. Russian troops use sleds in snow covered area to transport supplies. Reindeer team pulls sled or sleigh. Side and front views of deer teams pulling supply sleds. A Russian cook prepares food at field kitchen. Russian troops and snipers fire at Germans. Firing and smoke. Russian soldiers wear all-white winter uniform and outerwear for camouflage in snow. Kitchen unit puts supplies on horse-drawn sled to deliver hot food to Soviet soldier snipers dug into snow embankments. Russian soldiers take turns to eat food, as other continue to fire at German positions. Soldiers enter into shower tent and take off heavy woolen outer clothes. View of hole in lake ice with hose carrying water to truck with heating apparatus to warm the water. Soviet soldiers take warm showers. They comb their hair. They exit the tent to return to their mission.
German troops push a Messerschmitt Bf 109 fighter aircraft during in snow in Russia. A pilot in cockpit adjusts his flight helmet. Messerschmitt Bf 109 starting up ready for takeoff. Ground crew wave flags. A group of aircraft in flight. Point of view from airplane of snow-covered ground as seen while taking off. Thick black pillar of smoke over a village. German fighters strafing Russian positions as seen from gun camera footage. Russian aircraft are strafed in flight. Strafed fighter bursts into flames.
37th anniversary of Soviet Army and Navy celebrated on February 22nd at Central Soviet Army theater in Moscow. Exterior of 2nd Soviet Army theater. Soviet Army and Navy Marshals, Generals and Admirals attend this event and are seated in the theater. Presiding committee include Nikolai Bulganin, Nikita Khrushchev , Marshal Vasilevsky and other ministers. The meeting is opened by USSR Defense Minister, Marshal Georgy Zhukov, who congratulates Soviet Army and Navy on their 37th anniversary. Soviet Army and Navy were established by Congress party. The audience applaud. Speeches of Secretary of the Moscow City Committee of the communist party, Ivan Marchenko; by the Secretary of the Central Committee of the Young Communist League, and by Hero of Socialist Labor and chairman of the Lenin Collective Farm, Ivan Yubanov. At the end of the event, Marshal Zhukov delivers thanksgiving speech.
Achievements of Lithuania since the Soviet liberation in 1939. Exteriors of various buildings and a church. Small radio studio with technician and with a woman speaking over microphone. Woman opens windows of house from outside. Soviet-sponsored reconstruction of building after World War 2 shows workers at work rebuilding war torn area. Past events show a man hidden in the woods with a machine gun as a German supply railroad train approaches during the war. Demolition charges explode and train is derailed.
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