Annexation of the Western regions of Ukraine and Belarus to the USSR (1939)

Views of a rally of workers at a railway depot in support of the Red Army in September 1939, locomotive driver Shibaev speaks from the rostrum.

One of the depot workers speaks.

Conscript Smirnov speaks from the rostrum, interspersed with views of the rally.

Faces of the rally participants.

Speech by glass factory worker Degunina.

View of the rally.

Panorama of the 40,000-strong rally on the territory of the All-Union Agricultural Exhibition in support of the Liberation Campaign in Western Ukraine and Belarus.

Faces of the rally participants.

Panorama of part of the rally.

The foreman of carpenters, builder Svinarev speaks at the rally, reads the text of his speech, interspersed with faces of the participants and views of the rally.

Speech by the People's Commissar of Agriculture of the USSR I.A. Benediktov.

The rally participants applaud.

Stakhanovite G.M. Osheverov delivers a speech at a factory rally in support of the Soviet government's decision to annex Western Ukraine and Western Belarus to the USSR (synchronously), views and panoramas of the rally, applauding rally participants (alternating).

Osheverov finishes his speech.

Rally participants applaud.

Panorama of the rally (top).

Panorama of the rally of Tarnopol residents greeting the Red Army in September 1939. Red Army soldiers respond to greetings from the back of a truck.

Commanders and political workers stand with flowers in their hands on the armor of a tank.

Residents of Tarnopol greet the Red Army.

Residents of Lvov greet Red Army units entering the city on the streets of the city.

Distribution of leaflets and newspapers to the population.

Residents of Lvov rock one of the commanders.

People sort out newspapers distributed by a Red Army political worker.

Broken Polish vehicles.

Polish prisoners sit on the side of the road.

A column of Polish prisoners of war moving.

Faces of prisoners passing by, soldiers waving their hats as they go.

A peasant sowing a field confiscated from a Polish landowner.

A destroyed railway bridge.

Refugees disembarking under the destroyed bridge.

Polish prisoners walking along the road without formation.

Views of ancient Polish castles, medieval ruins, on the territory occupied by units of the Red Army.

Knight's armor in one of the castles.

The former owner of the castle is wheeled out of the room in a wheelchair.

Peasants handing over the landowner's cattle, faces of applauding peasants participating in the rally.

Peasants leading a cow to their home.

Faces of participants in the peasant rally.

A local party worker explains to the peasants the issues of handing over the landowner's land to them.

Faces of peasants listening to the speaker.

A speech by one of the rural activists.