Tourists visit Lenin's Tomb in Moscow, Soviet Union. View of Lenin's Tomb (Red Square, 1, Moscow, Russia, 109012). The wall of the Kremlin. The former Soviet Parliament building in the background. The tourists pose in front of Lenin's Tomb entrance on Red Square.
Tourists visit Red Square in Moscow, Soviet Union. View of the Nikolskaya Tower, Kremlin Arsenal and the Spasskaya Tower at the Moscow Red Square (Red Square, 3, Moscow, Russia, 109012). The tourists stand in front of Lenin's Tomb (Red Square, 1, Moscow, Russia, 109012). Former Soviet Parliament building in the background.
Russian city street scene. Coffin of Vladimir Illich Lenin being carried from his funeral train,at Paveletskiy Rail Terminal, Moscow. A large crowd of mourners, lined up on a snow covered hill, watch as soldiers and officials carry coffin and others carry wreaths, in procession. Soldiers with rifles accompany the cortege. Some spectators hold aloft banners and posters as they stand on hillside. Soldiers setting demolition explosives to commence building mausoleum to house Lenin's body at Red Square, Moscow. They are seen in hollow, below ground, in front of Kremlin wall. They lower something into hole and shovel some earth on it. Outside smoke rises and then an explosion raises cloud of earth and dust. A statue of Lenin, holding holding right hand aloft, stands next to the excavation site.
The body of Ho Chi Minh, lying in State, following his death, on September 2, 1969. during the Vietnam War. Recounting scenes of war, revolution and violence associated with Ho Chi Minh's life and struggles. An aircraft in flight drops bombs. A smoke column rises from explosions. People weep. Prisoners executed in a field. Pile of dead bodies, in front of clusters of Christian crosses.
Paveletskiy Rail Terminal in Moscow, Russia. Mourners carry the coffin of Vladimir Lenin after it arrived by the funeral train, seen in background. Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin is seen at front of the coffin and Joseph Stalin, at the right rear.A contingent of soldiers surrounds and follows the pall bearers.Crowd of mourners stand in snow on hillside, and follow the cortege.
Views of various structures and objects after being exposed to atomic explosive test shot "Apple 2" during U.S. Army Exercise Desert Rock VI. A wooden frame house splintered by the blast. A low concrete structure, relatively intact. An overturned Army vehicle. An unsheltered low-wing monoplane, number NG 489851, with skin stripped from its horizontal stabilizer and wing tips. A P-47 aircraft appearing relatively intact. A badly damaged two-wheel trailer. A relatively unscathed auxiliary power unit on a stabilized trailer. Vehicles reduced to rubble. Radar unit and accompanying truck and power unit, seemingly OK, but dish antenna may be damaged. Three soldiers stand around an M2HB heavy machine gun knocked from its stand. A B-29 bomber sits on a ramp with a sign in front of it warning of radiation. A ground crewman sprays the bomber down with a pressure hose to decontaminate it by washing off radioactive particles. A soldier rides a jeep out to check radiation readings on a vehicle that had been exposed. Troops walk back from ground zero and undergo personal cleaning with brooms and checks by geiger counters. A soldier being checked, including his boots. Soldiers sweeping dust from M48 tanks used in the exercise. A soldier being "interviewed" by another, about means of coping with atomic weapons on the battlefield. A formation of soldiers marching, led by one carrying a Corps of Engineers Guidon with the number 14 on it. [Note: According to the U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian, from February 18 to May 15, 1955, the United States conducted Operation Teapot, a nuclear test series at Yucca Flat and Frenchman Flat on the Nevada Test Site in the continental United States. During the test period 14 nuclear shots and 1 non-nuclear shot were detonated. Several thousand scientific, military (army, air force, navy, marines), and civilian contract personnel participated in the organization, planning, and execution of the test series. Military exercises undertaken during and following the shots took place under the name Desert Rock 6.]
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