Scenes from the Russian Revolution and years immediately after in Russia, roughly 1918-1921. Troops moving in the snow. Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, the Bolshevik leader, makes peace with the Germans. The Civil War breaks out in Russia. White Russians continue war with World War 1 allies, against Germany. Czarist Cossacks seek to restore the monarchy of Nicholas II. Photograph of the Russian Czar and family sitting outdoors on the ledge of a wooden building. Secret police seen arresting people. Bolshevik firing squad executes three prisoners, who fall dead into a mass grave behind them. Lenin, holding a kitten in his hand, seated at a table. March 7, 1921: Workers and sailors gathered on the streets, in Kronstadt, demanding peace, freedom, and bread. Red Army Troops disperse the crowd, shooting many of them. Leon Trotsky, Commander of the Red Army, states that the slaughter was necessary. Trotsky seen walking with other officers. People on the sides of a path watching Trotsky. Families looking over dead workers and sailors in a field.
Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko in New York City, New York. Andrei Gromyko comes down the steps of an aircraft at an airport. The Foreign Minister is greeted by Soviet ambassador to the United Nations Arkady Sobolev. The men shake hands. Policemen on guard beside the dignitaries. Photographers take pictures of the officials. Gromyko and Sobolev walk followed by other officials. Foreign Minister Gromyko speaking at a UN General Assembly emergency meeting on the Middle East in United Nations Building.
A funeral procession in Harlem, New York, United States for slain African American communist Alfred Levy and communist Gonzalo Gonzales, killed a day apart in altercations with police and Garvey movement participants. A large number of people on streets during the funeral procession for the two communists. African Americans and whites march in the procession carrying banners and flags. A banner reads 'A mass funeral demonstration'.
Canadian troops in Giardini, Sant' Alessio Siculo, near Letojanni, Sicily, Italy during World War 2. A banner reads 'Welcome the liberators'. A truck moves down a road. Many trucks loaded with Canadian soldiers pass through a town. Military policeman of Canada wearing white armband, directs truck traffic in center of town. View of ancient Sant' Alessio Siculo Castle on top of hill overlooking the town, in the background. (Castello de Capo Sant'Alessio).
A girl in Manhattan elementary school paints picture of the tall buildings she is accustomed to in her surroundings. Other children are also seen working on their paintings. One picture shows a policeman directing traffic. Another shows a fire station. A teacher uses their pictures to help the children learn to read. To help them learn counting, the teacher has a girl bounce a ball in front of the class. The children gather together as the teacher reads to them from a book. She has one boy come from the back to sit closer to her. One boy makes a face, showing how a rabbit looks when eating. The other children do it too. (World War II period).
Military policeman standing guard in front of a Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF) P-40 aircraft, on the Torokina Air Strip, at Bougainville, in World War 2. A convoy of fuel trucks driving along edge of the airfield. A caterpillar tractor towing a large fuel tanker trailer. A fuel truck stops in front of a P-39 Airacobra and airmen begin to refuel its drop tank. Seabees unpack sections of pierced steel plank (Marsden Matting) and lay it down on the airstrip.
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