A documentary Soviet film showing their forces during Battle of Berlin, Germany during World War 2. Soviet troops firing artillery point blank on streets of Berlin. Soviet infantry running in the streets. Soviet Artillery firing at high degree of elevation. Infantry run past a knocked out T-34 tank. Soviet artillery and gun crew set up on a railroad bridge. Infantryman runs past a T-34 tank firing its gun on a railroad bed. Soviet armor and artillery massed in a street. Soviet troops and vehicles jammed up and moving slowly on one side of a boulevard. A knocked out German tank. Soviet infantry finding protected spot behind destroyed building near a stairwell. Soviet gunners firing artillery piece point blank at a building across the street. Scene changes to quiet residential section of Berlin, where women and an old man read a bulletin board directing Berliners to clean up the rubble in their streets. Closeup of the posting in Russian and German. View from rear of group of Berliners reading the proclamations. Fires burning in a building, behind Berlin civilians with shovels clearing street of debris. A large group of German civilian men and women working with shovels to clear rubble from a street. Scattered work groups of civilians cleaning the detritus of war. Some civilians hurry as they carry packets of food.
United States Air Force Soviet Awareness Program titled 'Heirs of Victory' depicts Soviet military equipment and its use in terms of purpose and jurisdiction. Introduction by Brigadier General James C. Pfautz, Deputy Assistant Chief of Staff, Intelligence, Headquarters U.S. Air Force. Brig. Gen. Pfautz gives details about the subject, translation, narration, and editing. The Soviet Communist hammer and sickle symbol. A Soviet long winged early warning radar keeps a watch in the sky. Soviet Air Force MiG-25 (Mikoyan-Gurevich) interceptor bombers with air to air missiles. Pilots board aircraft and they take off. The aircraft in flight. Soviet missiles and rockets protect the borders. World War II Soviet Air Force fighter pilot Nikolai Kozmoff talks to highly trained young Soviet pilots at a air base.
Finland attacked by the Soviets during the "Winter War" or Russo-Finnish War of 1939-1940, coinciding with World War 2. Vyacheslav Molotov addresses Soviet men in a hall. View of Stalin seated near a wall. Soviet Men applaud. Soviet planes in flight. Soviet Paratroopers jump from the plane and descend with the help of parachutes towards Finland. Soviet army soldiers place and fire a line of artillery on the battlefield. Soviet airplanes in flight over Helsinki. The city of Helsinki being bombed by Soviet aircraft. People flee from the area. Damage in the area due to the bombardment. Destroyed houses, buildings and rubble on the ground in Finland from aerial bombing. A wrecked airplane on the street.
Violent anti-Soviet demonstrations and uprising in Prague, Czechoslovakia after Soviet occupation to end Prague Spring liberalization measures. Large crowds of anti-Soviet demonstrators on the street protest outside the Soviet Embassy. A Soviet flag on the building of Soviet Embassy. Demonstrators set fire to the communist Soviet flag. The flag burns. Demonstrators spread violence on the street. Police capture a demonstrator and take him away. Demonstrators set Soviet flag on fire on street.
Soviet officers, under cover of camouflage netting, look through binoculars, during World War 2. Soldiers remove foliage camouflage from T-34 tanks hidden in a forest. A T-34 moving out of the forest shedding some foliage as it proceeds. The tank climbing a hill. A group of BT tanks moving across a field while under fire. Smoke rising all around from shells bursting. Infantry running , under shell fire. Marshal Georgy Zhukov and staff looking skyward from bunker under camouflage netting. Wide view of infantry charging across a field with shells exploding all around. Marshal Zhukov speaking on field telephone. Soviet soldiers hurriedly removing foliage camouflage from amphibious trucks (American Lend Lease DUKWs). Closeup of soldiers riding in one. Many are seen in various views as they proceed toward a river and plunge into the water. Closeup of two DUKWs underway. filled with armed soldiers. A woman soldier drives one of the amphibious vehicles. A soldier in one, uncoils wire from a large spool, as the vehicle runs in the water. Wide view of the DUKWs heading across the wide river. Then German Junkers Ju-87 Stuka dive bombers attack the amphibious vehicles. View upward to a formation of them peeling off and diving toward the Soviet amphibious vehicles. Bombs bursting all over the river. On the river shore, batteries of Soviet antiaircraft guns fire at the German planes. Soviet soldiers rush ashore after reaching the opposite river bank, as attacking German planes fly overhead. Gun camera views from a Soviet aircraft engaging a German plane in a dogfight. Another view of Soviet soldiers leaving their amphibious vehicles. Two are burning at the shoreline. More views of German Ju-87s diving. Soviet aircraft gun camera view of German airplane being hit by its gunfire and exploding. Another view of Marshal Zhukov observing the battle front. A piece of the downed German airplane falls into the river..
At beginning, the film shows views of the smoking ruins of Berlin from an overflying aircraft. Scene shifts to illustrations of confilict in 18th Century Berlin. A sculptured bust of young Frederick the Great of Austria. Flags of various States and historic horns displayed in a museum where all the exhibits are labeled in Russian. Flash forward to the final phases of the Soviet offensive against Berlin, Germany during World War 2. Soviet soldier picks up an artillery shell and hands it to member of a gun crew who loads it into the breech of a harge gun. Another Soviet gun being loaded. Soviet artillery pieces of all sizes and kinds are seen firing into Berlin, creating explosions and smoke and demolishing buildings. A civilian man and woman run along a street carrying their belongings in a baby carriage. Other German civilian refugees fleeing the battle zones. Three Soviet officers confer looking at a map. Soviet infantry running from house to house. A woman running along a rubble strewn street. Civilians taking shelter at corner of a building. A boy holding his ears against the sounds of the artillery fire, as he joins several civilians sheltering in a doorway. Three civilian women with their belongings walk along a street but stop and turn back when a building ahead of them is struck by shellfire and partly collapses into the street. A woman running away from the battle zone trips and falls down. Soviet troops using a flame thrower that sets a building on fire. Soviet infantry scampering through damaged buildings and rubble.
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