Film based on reconstruction of Stalingrad, Soviet Union after World War II attack. Soviet workers and technicians work to rebuilt State Electric Station. Workers work on a big steel frame structure. Technicians work at various instruments. Stacks of electric station emit smoke.
The Battle of Caucasus in the Soviet Union during World War II. Posters of World War II. Allied ships arrive in Germany. Crates unloaded from the ships. Red Army officers discuss a map. Animated map of Caucasus. Snow covered mountain ranges in Caucasus. A train on tracks. Animated map shows various transport routes and Stalingrad. Monuments and buildings in Stalingrad. Automobile traffic on a road. Animated map depicts German plan to occupy Stalingrad. A river between mountains.
German attack on the Soviet Union during World War II. An explosion. German tanks advance on a battlefield. Animated map shows German occupation of Crimea. Animated map shows the Germans occupying the area of the Don River and occupation of the oil fields of Maikop. German troops advance in the Soviet Union. Soldiers march with weapons. Animated map shows German attack on Stalingrad. German aircraft bomb the city. The soldiers run on the battlefield. They are near the ruins of bombed out buildings. German troops attack a railroad station. Newspaper headlines. German troops fire from behind a crumbled wall. Bomb explosions near buildings. Soldiers run through ruins.
German troops advance on the Eastern Front during World War 2. Russians employ scorched earth policy . Oil tanks ablaze and dams and structures blown up. Germans lay siege to Stalingrad. A Soviet troops in urban combat in Stalingrad. A German soldier is shot and falls. Views of awful destruction. Animated map showing Leningrad and the Gulf of Finland and Lake Ladoga on either side. Views of Leningrad in snow. Citizens bundled against the cold, walk near historic structures. Food being distributed. Soviet troops in defensive positions. Animated map shows outbreak of Soviet forces in pincer movement that surrounds the German 6th Army. Two Soviet armies meet as they close the pincer. German Field Marshal Friedrich Paulus surrendering to Soviet forces on 31 January 1943. Troops of the German 6th Army make their way through the snow as they surrender. Battlefield cemetery, with markers of German soldier's graves. Numerous Soviet citizens, victims of the fighting, seen lying in the snow, as relatives grieve. Scene shifts to the Pacific theater with view of Japanese bombers flying over an installation flying the Rising Sun flag. Scenes of the Pearl Harbor attack. American workers fill yard near a war plant during shift change. Defense industry workers in the plants. Liberty ships being launched. American forces in amphibious assaults. U.S. forces engaged in North Africa and on Pacific islands. American soldiers at battlefield gravesite. General Dwight D. Eisenhower with General Omar Bradley and Allied military leaders, look over a map of Europe, following the June 6th invasion in Normandy. Fields filled with Sherman tanks and other war materiel, in England. The wing of an American airplane in D-day stripes as it takes off. Views from cockpit of an American bomber striking targets on D-day. B-17 bombers in formation at high altitude, leaving condensation trails in the sky. Pilots in cockpit of an American bomber, as they drop bombs. Allied fighters in D-day stripes peeling off to attack. Gun camera views of fighters strafing German targets. Explosions and fires.
Polish Prime Minister Joseph Cyrankiewicz in Russia. Polish Prime Minister Joseph Cyrankiewicz and Minister of Industry Hilary Minc are received by Soviet Union leader Joseph Stalin and Premier Vyacheslav Molotov in the Kremlin. They pose for photographs at the reception. Polish Prime Minister arrives by a car at the railway station. Premier Vyacheslav Molotov and Deputy Minister of foreign affairs Andrei Vyshinkii see Polish delegation off. Russian troops lined on side. Joseph Cyrankiewicz delivers speech reaffirming Polish-Soviet relations. Dignitaries in the background. Polish Prime Minister Joseph Cyrankiewicz boards a train.
Animated map shows thrust of German forces during invasion of Soviet Russia in World War 2. Stalingrad is highlighted as a turning point. Another animated map shows Soviet territorial gains at the end of the war, as narrator discusses the disposition of those places and their respective populations, as in Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia. He also discusses Soviet zones of occupation. Animated map shows "Iron Curtain." Soviet troops on parade. Soviet ZSU-57-2 self-propelled anti-aircraft guns (SPAAG) on display during a parade in 1945. A stadium filled with people in Soviet-occupied East Germany, in 1949. Friedrich Wilhelm Reinhold Pieck, the first President of the German Democratic Republic, is seen in the stands. Young East German women parade in traditional costumes, clapping their hands, in the stadium. Waterfront scenes show Soviet trade activities with post-war occupied entities. Scenes of conflict as Chinese communist forces expel Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist Chinese forces (ROC) from mainland China to Formosa (Taiwan), in 1949. A litter-borne casualty and a refugee mother and small girl are seen as they evacuate.
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