From a Russian feature film "Meeting on the Elbe" (dubbed in Korean). Reenactment of the "East Meets West" meeting of the American and Russian soldiers at the River Elbe near Torgau Germany on April 25, 1945. Reenactment : A burning house. Smoke rising from the house. Russian troops in tanks move along the road in front of the house. The interiors of the house of a German civilian. The damaged interiors of the house. The German civilian rushes with his baggage. A Russian soldier behind the civilian. The civilian sits in a chair with the baggage. A girl and a boy beside the man sitting in the chair. A man in the room talks to the soldier. The civilian with the woman and the boy beside him. A soldier outside the entrance gate to the house as Russian forces take over the German town. (World War II period).
Nikita Khrushchev with others makes a pilgrimage to the apartment where Lenin lived in exile before the Russian Revolution in Bordeaux, France. A photo of Lenin. Large crowd gathers. Khrushchev's motorcade on street. Khrushchev is guest of the Mayor of Bordeaux, Jacques Chaban-Delmas. Khrushchev takes a sheep in his lap from a woman.
Six Day War Combat action between Israeli and Egyptian aircraft during the War of Attrition in Sinai Peninsula, Egypt. An Israeli aircraft fires a missile at a Mikoyan Gurevich MIG 21 aircraft. The MIG 21 explodes.
Map highlights Vitebsk region of Belarus. Roaring flames in the city, during World War 2. Refugees with a wooden cart mingle with retreating German infantry walking across a bridge over the Dvina River. A German tank with a huge log fastened to its side as extra protection. It is followed by another tank and three soldiers on a motorcycle and side car. Some infantrymen walk casually but another contingent marches in formation, smiling as they pass the camera. Domes of an orthodox church are seen in the background, as passing soldiers wave to the camera. Smiling German infantrymen walk next to picket fence. Line of refugees in horse-drawn wagons leaving the city. German gunners set up an artillery field piece. View of rail lines and station set ablaze by German troops. Explosions occur along rail line as German sappers detonate charges to destroy tracks. Smoke and haze covers the area. German officer looks through binoculars at smoke from explosion in distance. German soldiers bury Teller land mines along railroad bed. Closeup of a soldier setting mine in place and covering it with patch of grass. German antiaircraft battery set up overlooking Dvina River. Below, German army vehicles cross steel bridge.Sappers destroy another bridge. The Uspenski Cathedral in backgound at confluence of Dvina and Vitba Rivers. A huge explosion sends clouds of black smoke aloft, as German sappers destroy more buildings. A German soldier carrying a Panzerfaust recoiless antitank weapon runs to join another lying prone with an MG 42 light machine gun. More huge demolition explosions. German soldiers ready for combat. Huge fires rage in the city.
The end of the Cuban Missile Crisis. Russian ships underway in the Atlantic Ocean as they withdraw after the Cuban Missile Crisis. U.S. Navy aircraft in flight overhead. The ships with rockets aboard them withdraw.
Dump outside the death chambers and bones on the ground at Maidanek concentration camp in Lublin, Poland (also called KL Lublin or Majdanek). Cremation Ovens and family photos of the victims. Women weep and piles of bones are seen near crematory. Tall chimney of the crematory and gas chamber areas, and burial grounds. A vegetable garden.
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