A German propaganda film on deplorable living conditions under Communist rule in the Soviet Union during World War II. Posters at a Russian consulate and tourist agency in Berlin, Germany depict happy Russians at work. The Russians under Communist rule in the Soviet Union show half-starved peasants in crude huts. A woman holds a sickly baby. Scrawny cattle and horses. The Russians living in slum, run-down, shacks and bad conditions in old houses with partially open roofs. Unsanitary conditions and hygiene and disease problems are highlighted. Medical treatment given to patients in an unclean and sparse Russian dispensary and medical clinic.
A film about farm activities in Kazakhstan, Soviet Union during World War II. A Soviet on horseback. A herd of cattle grazes. A mountainous area. A boy stands in the middle of a flock of sheep. A combine harvester in operation. A thresher on a field. Men carry a sack of grain. Women pick tea leaves. Camels pull carts loaded with sacks, passing under arch gate into city.
Title slate reads,"the First Metallurgical Plant in Soviet Central Asia." Narrator says construction started 4-years ago during the Battle of Stalingrad in World War 2 (1942-43). Interior of the plant is shown from a vantage point high above the factory floor. Strips of hot steel are seen being extruded from a rolling mill. Closeup of the rolling mill in action and workers standing beside it. Closeup of the mill's rollers and hot steel blank passing through them. Workers handle the hot steel with long tools, as they move it back and forth to different sets of rollers. Narrator says the rolling mill has a capacity of 50 thousand tons per year. Closeup of two steel workers. Change of scene with view from above and then from below, as a furnace is tapped and molten steel flows into a crucible, emiting smoke and flames. Closeup of Uzbek steel workers employed at the steel plant. Next, workers are gathered in a ceremony marking the opening of the new rolling mill. A plant supervisor speaks before the gathering. A huge picture of Joseph stalin forms a backdrop. (Note: This is the The Uzbek Metallurgical Plant, aka V. I. Lenin Uzbek Metallurgical Plant, located in Bekabad, Tashkent Oblast,Uzbekistan. The 300-millimeter light rolling mill, seen here, began operating in October, 1946.)
United States Air Force Soviet Awareness Program depicts Soviet military equipment and its use in terms of purpose and jurisdiction. The SS-9 Scarp or R-36 intercontinental ballistic missile mounted on an Army truck. Russian soldiers around the missile mounted truck. Soldiers work in a missile silo receiving the nuclear weapon. The missile is lowered into position in the underground silo. Soldiers and technicians at the missile controls. A Soviet Army Colonel is shown who is the supervisor of the development of the missile. A Soviet military live firing exercise with a battery of smaller conventional weapon rockets. Views of R-36 missiles being put into place at various Soviet locations. Military vehicles on the move. Desert land and wooded area in the Soviet Union. View inside a missile control room. A Soviet officer gives orders to fire a R-36 missile. View of R-36 missile emerging from underground silo when fired. The intercontinental ballistic missile is fired.
Soviet newsreel with Korean narration. Film opens showing a public library in the Soviet Union. Patrons peruse books and other publications and take some to tables, where they read them. One man looks at a cinema schedule. Many persons gather to hear a lecture from a speaker who appears to be discussing farming livestock.
View of forward compartment in President Nixon's C-137C, Boeing 707 aircraft, named The Spirit of 76, (Air Force One) as it is flying him and his party to Moscow, Soviet Union, for a visit on May 22, 1972. Pilot, copilot, Navigator, and Flight Engineer are at their respective stations. The pilot, U.S. Air Force Colonel Ralph Albertazzie, is looking at an aeronautical chart and talking with his navigator.
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