View of Red Army parading in Moscow, Russia. General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Joseph Stalin waves at the marching troops. Map of Finland. Finland during the early days of the Winter War of 1939-40. President Kyösti Kallio of Finland seated at table during a conference. He bangs a gavel. View of Helsinki Central Station (Helsingin päärautatieasema, Kaivokatu 1, 00100 Helsinki, Finland). Traffic moves through the streets of Helsinki. Finnish civilians fleeing Helsinki at Helsinki Central Station. Finnish civilian men mobilizing. Aircraft in flight. Paratroopers descend and advance on ground. Tanks move on a field. Soldiers riding horse carts beside a railroad track. They fire artillery. Soldiers advance through snow covered terrain in Finland wearing skis.
Soviet resources and preparation for World War II. Troops march on streets in Soviet Russia. Tanks and trucks move across a field. A locomotive moves on railway track. Cannons on field. Planes in flight. Newspaper printed. Men read newspapers. Women dig trenches with shovels. Women listen as a man speaks on a street. Women wear bands on arms and do medical work. Men work in factories. Equipment in factories. Ships on harbor and oil fields in Russia. Russian leader Joseph Stalin in view. Small craft in water. Naval guns and planes in flight.
A documentary based on activities in Stalingrad after World War II attack. The first May Day celebrations since war shows young Soviet communist men and women singing aboard a steamer underway in the Volga River.
Marshall Joseph Stalin and Russian staff officers move towards the table on which sword of Stalingrad is displayed in the Russian Embassy, Tehran, Iran. General Voroshilov, Anthony Eden, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, General Sir Hastings Ismay, Sir Alexander Kadogen and Sir Archibald Clark Kerr stand around the table. The Prime Minister Churchill shakes hands with Marshall Joseph Stalin. The sword is presented to Joseph Stalin. He hands it to a Soviet soldier. Russian emblem on the Embassy. (World War II period).
Scenes of Soviet forces preparing for battle in Leningrad, Russia against the siege by German forces during World War 2. A large procession of Soviet soldiers walking in the snow near the Palace Square. They proceed past the Narva Triumphal Gate. A contingent of uniformed soldiers marches by the gate. A group of soldiers kneels at the tombstone of 18th Century Russian Generalissimo Alexander Vasilyevich Suvorov, famous for never losing a battle. One soldier kisses a revolver. Outside in the snow, Russian troops assemble before a flag being the image of Lenin. The soldiers all kneel as past glories are recounted (brief clips of fictional films showing Russian heroes like Alexander Nevsky and others). The Soviet soldiers stand again and march, singing, in the snow. Ordinary citizens march in the snow towards the Narva Triumphal Arch or Gate. Russian troops in uniform march past the Gate. One Russian soldier pulls a sled behind him. A large contingent of ski troops marches, carrying snow skis over their shoulders, followed by a contingent of paratroopers, in winter white camouflage jump suits. More Soviet soldiers in white camouflage march carrying snow skis. A contingent of Russian ski troops marches in the snow, dressed in white camouflage outfits.
Foreign Minister of Soviet Russia, Vyacheslav Molotov sits in his office, Soviet Russia. Telephone on desk in the background. Loudspeakers placed on the street. A huge crowd on the streets. Buildings in the background. Russian people listen to the message on loudspeakers. Women, men and children gathered on the streets. Cadets and officers in the crowd. Families hear the speech.
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