Allied leaders at the Yalta Conference in Crimea, Russia during World War II. The meeting was also codenamed the Argonaut Conference. British Prime Minister Winston Churchill in British uniform removes his hat as he enters the Livadia Palace. Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin in a uniform enters the palace along with Vyacheslav Molotov, Andrei Vyshinsky, Pavlov and Russian diplomat Andrei Gromyko. Allied leaders seated around a table at the conference, including: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, U.S. Secretary of State Edward Stettinius (on Roosevelt's right), Harry Hopkins (seated away from the table behind Roosevelt's right shoulder), Roosevelt's chief diplomatic advisor Alger Hiss (on Roosevelt's right), Roosevelt confidant James F. Byrnes, British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, Permanent Under Secretary to Foreign Secretary Alexander Cadogan, Prime Minister Winston Churchill, Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin, People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs Vyacheslav Molotov, Soviet Ambassador Pavalov (primary English translator for Stalin), Deputy Commissar for Foreign Affairs Andrey Vishinsky, Andrei Gromyko, Ivan Maisky, and Ambassador Gusiev. Also seen seated at a table: U.S. Army General George C. Marshall, U.S. Navy Admiral Ernest King, President Franklin Roosevelt, U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union W. Averell Harriman.
German aggression during World War II. German troops marching in formation. A large crowd on either side of a road watches the troops. German Chancellor Adolf Hitler delivering a speech in Germany. Troops standing in formation listen to Hitler. On August 23, 1939 : People holding banners that read 'Down with War and Racism' and 'Aid the Allies'. New York Times headline reads: 'Reich and Soviet Join for Peace -- or War; No Buffer State; New Pact Warns Allies; Estonia Gives Moscow Sea and Air Bases'. Soviet politician Vyacheslav Molotov, Soviet Union leader Joseph Stalin and German Foreign Minister Friedrich Wilhelm Ribbentrop with other officers during the signing of Soviet German non-aggression pact (also called Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact) in Moscow, Russia in August, 1939. German Stuka dive bombers in action, when Germany invades Poland in a "blitzkrieg.".German Heinkel He-111 bombers in action. Buildings being totally destroyed by bombs. Red Army tanks and troops moving in snow. Victorious German troops marching in occupation. German heavy artillery batteries firing.
Map of Siberia and environs highlights the Urals, Magnitogors, and Stalinsk ( now Novokuznetsk) in Russia. Camera pans over industrial complex in the city of Stalinsk, Soviet Union, during World War 2. Numerous plants and smoke stacks are seen and narrator describes large increases in production and output to supply the Soviet war effort. Closeup of flaming coke being discharged from a coking furnace. Cooled coke being discharged into a large pile. Interior of a steel mill where workers have just tapped an open hearth furnace, amidst fire and smoke. Fiery molten steel pouring from the furnace. Hot ingots being moved to rolling mills. Russian steel workers controlling the mills. Large long ribbons of steel emerge from the top of a rolling mill. War production workers lift them up and place them back into the mill below the roller, this time, which then pulls them away in a second pass, moving away from the camera. Hot ribbon of steel moves in a circular path within a pathway atop a large machine. Men working at machinery with numerous valve handles. Closeup of a steel worker. Change of scene to a mine where a miner tends five drills boring into the ceiling of a mine cavity. He installs a shaft onto one of the drills. Small gauge rail cars transport ore out of the mine. Next, an open air copper mine is seen with Steam shovels digging the ore. A meeting of factory workers with a poster of Joseph Stalin displayed. A speaker extends thanks from Soviet leaders and from Soviet soldiers at the front. Closeups of speakers and listening workers. A woman operating controls to rotate a drum of crushed copper ore and empty it. Workers tending numerous banks of copper ore washing machines.
Momentary image of Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin, Russian mystic and advisor to the Russian Imperial family. German troops fighting in no man's land on Western Front in World War 1. Ill prepared and equipped Russian troops clean themselves and clothing of fleas and lice, that cause heavy casualties from typhus. Explosions on front lines. Starving Russian civilians at aid camp. Demonstrations for increased bread rations, in St. Petersburg, Russia, March, 1917, getting out of hand. Tsarist troops sent in to quell the disturbance, instead, join in the revolutionary protests. Alexander Fyodorovich Kerensky, member of the Provisional Committee of the State Duma, vice-chairman of the Petrograd Soviet,and first Minister of Justice in the Provisional Government, is seen tipping his hat, and later giving a speech. Czar (Tsar) Nicholas II, seen sitting on a tree stump, with soldiers behind him. Russians crowding a square, breaking down prison bars, and releasing prisoners. Dissidents haranguing Russian crowds. Kerensky speaking to crowd. Vladimir Ilyich Lenin returning by railroad train from exile in Switzerland. Leon Trotsky arrives from Canada and is seen speaking to a crowd. Kerensky on a balcony as, head of the provisional government, in Summer, 1917, proclaiming Russia a Republic. Young women marching in parade. Lenin making remarks. Field filled with farm workers (worker army union, AKA Soviet) tilling soil with hand tools. Lenin, bareheaded (holding his cap behind his back) making a speech. An unidentified cathedral seen in background. Bolsheviks stir up unrest. Winged Victory column topples. Bolshevik mobs take over government buildings in Russian Revolution.
Sketches show Soviet Union leader Joseph Stalin and Premier Vyacheslav Molotov. A sketch showing Stalin's death and a convention of Communist party. A sketch depicts a tombstone with words inscribed “Here lies Yorik Stalin”. Portrait of communist world leaders such as Mao Zedong and Nikita Khrushchev, and the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia.
Annual display of Soviet Air might at Moscow Vnukovo Airport in Russia, Soviet Union. Several visiting Air Force chiefs witness the event. U.S. General Nathan Twining present during the air display. Helicopters, light planes, jet fighters and bombers displayed overhead. A delta wing supersonic interceptor is also shown (likely the Lavochkin La-250), along with a group of MiG-19 aircraft flying in formation.
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