The Soviet ship Vyacheslav Molotov is seen, docked at the French port of Le Havre. A crane raises cargo onto the ship. Ukrainian and Belorussian passengers stand on the pier, ready to board the ship that will take them to their former hometowns. One woman walks up the gangplank with a flag and a carryall displaying the image of Joseph stalin. On the pier, French Army officers process the embarking passengers, as a Soviet Army officer stands nearby. Closeup of documents being stamped. (Narrator states that these refugees fled their homes for France, 20 years earlier, when they were under the domination of Poland.) The Soviet officer encouraging passengers up the gangplank. View from high on the ship, of passengers clustered around the processing station. Camera pans up to the ship's funnel, where Soviet hammer and sicle is displayed. View from behind people waving on the dock, of the passengers lining the railing of the ship, waving goodbye as the ship slowly begins to move forward and then is seen underway. Scene fades to reopen showing the ship in waters of the Black Sea approaching the port of Odessa, Ukraine. Buildings seen upon cliffs overlooking the port. Several views of the passengers assembled on deck looking toward shore. Closeups of passengers and their flags. A Ukrainian woman gives a speech about her joy at homecoming. Other passengers applaud. A man holds up a homemade sign reading (in Russian) "LONG LIVE SOVIET-HOMELAND I-EE-GOVERNMENT." Passengers disembarking down the gangplank, carrying flags and riding in open small trucks away from the ship.
Hungarian Revolution of 1956 against the Stalinist government in Hungary. Civilians, police and military mingling amiably. Hungarian Communist Leader, Janos Kadar enters a car with an Army General. Civilians walk around a Soviet tank in a market. Hungarian soldiers stand on roads and talk to each other. Animated map shows flow of Soviet Forces surrounding Budapest to put down the insurrection. Soviet tanks firing point blank into buildings. Fires raging. A radio announcer is seen at a center from which multilingual broadcasts are being made about the events in Budapest. A technician in broadcast center. Speaker labeled "Hungarian." Brief view of UN meeting in New York. Revolutionaries fire on Soviets from remnants of destroyed buildings. Damaged Soviet tank. Hungarian National flags fly over abandoned litters in a small park. Dead revolutionary in a coffin being transported for burial in a cemetery. Some snow on the ground. People in various parts of the world express sympathy for the Hungarian insurrectionists. Black wreathes are hung. Youth in West Berlin, Germany, carry banner calling for Freedom for Hungary. Supportive demonstrations in Vietnam, France, and Italy. Black wreathes are placed in Poland.
Invasion of Germany by Allied forces during World War and unconditional surrender by Germany during World War 2. At TC: 00:19 thru 00: 21, Generalfeldmarschall Albert Kesselring, Commander of Axis forces in Italy, is seen outside a building in the mountains. Rear view of the war-damaged Reichtag building and View of the Brandenburg Gate as Soviet troops occupy during Battle of Berlin. General Dwight D. Eisenhower conferring with an unidentified General. Lieutenant Generals George S. Patton and Omar Bradley are with him. Soviet soldiers waving to Americans on opposite sides of the Elbe River. American soldiers paddling an inflated boat across the river. U.S. 69th Infantry division and Russian 58th Guard Division troops under Major General Rusakov embracing meet at the Elbe River in Torgau Germany on April 26, 1945. Several succeeding views of American and Soviet soldiers celebrating together. A group of American and Soviet soldiers posing for pictures atop a concrete foundation with a banner across it reading: "Our Greeting to the Heroes Army of United States of America." A battery of tanks firing their guns. Two British soldiers with one pointing in a direction. A Soviet IS-2 tank moving past a burning building. Destroyed street sign pointing at Hamburg. Local citizens waving white flags. Allied armor crossing a bridge over the Rhine River. British Marshal Bernard Montgomery and German General Eberhard Kinzel sign a document of surrender at Lüneburg Heath on 4 May 1945. Civilians moving about on streets of Berlin after Germany surrenders in World War 2. A British soldier posts an announcement from Allied occupying forces declaring the dissolution of the Nazi Party. Closeup of German citizens looking at the announcement. Local people standing amidst rubble near damaged buildings. A British Cromwell tank moving past the camera. Glimpse of a German family. Sherman tanks moving along a roadway. American Lieutenant Generals Leonard T. Gerow and William Simpson in Berlin. Trucks and tanks driving past fires. A long line of German prisoners of war marching beside a field under guard. German General Alfred Jodl and others leaving a car and entering General Eisenhower's Headquarters in Reims, France, May 7, 1945, where General Alfred Jodl, Chief of the Operations Staff in the German High Command, signs a document of unconditional surrender. Admiral Von Friedeburg of the German Navy, and Major Wilhelm Oxenius of the German General Staff sit beside him.
Hungarian civilians confront Soviet tanks during the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 in Budapest, Hungary. Crowds stand outside a burning building. Snipers shoot at Russians from behind doors and windows. Soviet tank firing in a park. Hungarian rebels shoot behind a building between Károlyi and Cukor street (Budapest, Károlyi utca 9, 1053 Hungary) in Inner City, Budapest. Hungarians burning Soviet books and flags in defiance to Soviet forces. Hungarians burning Soviet flags. Hungarian refugees cross to the Austrian border. A refugee man holding a baby flees to Austria. Crying Hungarian women cross the border to Austria. White geese in Hungary. Russian tanks block the Hungarian border.
Axis troops during World War II. Italian aviators look at a map and receive pre flight instructions. A soldier carries a cat in his pocket. Soldiers dig a plane out of snow. Ice on propellers of the aircraft. Italian pilots leave read room. German soldiers advance along ice covered area. German Volkswagen and tanks advance. German soldiers push a truck. German soldier receives instructions from an officer. A building burns. German soldiers wearing thermal gear advance on the Russian front. German Stukas in flight over the target area. Germans fire machine guns from tanks. German soldiers capture Soviet prisoners of war. German soldiers walk among wreckage of Soviet tanks and equipment after a battle.
Gha'leh Morghi Airport in Tehran, Iran during World War 2. American pilot, smoking a pipe and wearing a seat pack parachute, approaches a Curtiss P-40 airplane (tail number 42-9992) displaying Soviet markings. As he climbs into the cockpit, we see that he wears a cap with so-called "40 mission crush," and sun glasses. He hand cranks the canopy closed. A line of P-40 aircraft are seen alongside a taxiway and the runway. Two men ride in a small tractor along the taxiway, as a Douglas A-20 Havoc aircraft takes off from the runway. A North American A-36 Apache aircraft takes off. Bell Aircobra and Curtiss P-40 parked with other aircraft at side of runway as an airplane is seen on final approach in distance. Elsewhere on the airfield, near hangars, a Douglas A-20 Havoc is parked near a Bell Aircobra, a P-40 and several British Hawker Hurricane aircraft. Closeup of the Douglas A-20 Havoc seen earlier in the film. A mixed cluster of parked aircraft with mountains in background. A line of Hawker hurricane aircraft, an airport building in the center, and a Curtiss P-40 on the right, with mountain in background. A soviet sentry stands guard near a large single-engine aircraft with extreme up-swept wings.
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