Gdansk Shipyard on strike. Negotiations on the way to legalization of solidarity movement. A large crowd assembled in an open area. Solidarity leaders Lech Walesa and others arrive for negotiations. Lech Walesa speaks at a meeting. Other solidarity leaders take oath at the meeting.
Destruction of the Reichstag dome in Tiergarten, Berlin, Germany, which had been partially destroyed in World War 2. View of the Soviet War Memorial (Straße des 17. Juni 10623 Berlin) in the British zone of Berlin. The old Reichstag Building in the background. Incendiaries, tied to metal girders of the 50-ton dome, ignite and burn away the structure. Flames arise as the structure burns and collapses. A cameraman films people and cars moving across the street in front of the Brandenburg Gate (Brandenburger Tor).
Scenes from the Berlin Airlift. Views of transportation facilities shut down by the Soviets in June 1948. Glimpse of the city of Berlin, followed by views of empty railroad lines; barges idled in a canal; parked and silent trolley cars. Next, a U.S. Air Force Douglas C-54 Skymaster transport aircraft (military version of DC-4) is seen landing in Templehof aerodrome in Berlin. German children stand on a hill watching and waving at another C-54 on final approach to Templehof. A C-54 flying close to buildings on its final approach to the airport, followed by another landing near a line of trucks filled with goods brought in by the airlift. A military truck unloading supplies from C-54, tail number 42-72548, as another C-54 taxis up close behind it. Several C-54 airlift planes taxiing in a line on the Templehof ramp.
Headlines in the New York Times. The headlines read 'New Space Conquest Van Now Be Foreseen'. The article is about the successful launching of a heavy earth satellite by Soviet scientists.
Agricultural conditions in the People’s Republic of China under the Communist regime of Mao Zedong photographed by an Indian delegation visiting the country. Mao Zedong implements the economic and social plan titled 'Great Leap Forward' with Soviet help in 1958. The agricultural aspects of the plan (during which the great famine in China took place). The Chinese countryside. Farmers use tractors, machines, and other equipment for farming. Farmers plow fields, thresh crop and make haystacks using pitchforks. Men and women dig farmland. Millions of Chinese peasant people are organized to work the land, clear land, build dams and dig canals. Peasants working in Communist government-organized People's Communes for farming. Farmers work, cultivate and harvest crops using human labor to make up for lack of machinery. Chinese peasants seen farming barren land also affected by floods and locust. People engaged in construction work. People's Republic of China Chairman Mao Zedong visits the communes. The commune system is abandoned in 1961 in favor of collective agriculture. Small units of 20 farm families cultivate land as directed by local farmers. Farmers cultivate land, harvest crops. Men and women pick cotton. Young Chinese boys and girls attend university in China. Young boys on bicycles. University students in a classroom. The university campus. Children on the playground in a school. They perform the 'Turnip Dance' on stage as other children and teachers watch.
Living conditions in the People’s Republic of China under the Communist regime of Mao Zedong photographed by Indians visiting the country. Mao Zedong implements the economic and social plan titled 'Great Leap Forward' with Soviet help in 1958. People on the streets of China. Chinese women and children. Elderly Chinese revolutionaries pose. Cars and buses on the streets. Industries, factories, and plants. Young men and women participate in a festive parade. Men holding flags. The excessive population of China. Military leaders review a parade. An officer salutes. Tanks and artillery in the parade. Smoke from to an explosion during a war.
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