Post-war Poland (1945-1947)

A panorama of devastated Warsaw.

Women pray at a ruined church.

Ashes of books in a burned library.

Women carry a bust of Chopin from the rubble.

A column of Warsaw residents with an orchestra walks among the ruined buildings.

Damaged buildings and rubble are being cleared.

People are preparing old bricks for new walls and clearing the city of debris.

Architects are reviewing building sketches.

Footage from an airplane flying over the bridge over the Vistula.

Soviet soldiers are setting up a radio station.

Telephone operators are working at the communications center.

Soviet soldiers are working in a trench with water pipes.

A Soviet trolleybus is driving through Warsaw.

Passengers are inside the trolleybus.

People are assembling standard houses.

Buckets of grain are being unloaded from a train car.

Soviet soldiers interact with Polish citizens.

A child eats with the soldiers.

Soviet soldiers talk with peasants in national dress.

Polish peasants are given oxen.

Soviet soldiers load agricultural equipment into the back of a truck.

The truck is refueled.

Soviet Stalinets tractors with plows drive across the field.

A Soviet soldier operates the tractor.

Funerals of supporters of the people's government in Poland.

A meeting of the National Liberation Committee in Lublin in 1944. A land surveyor measures out plots of land for peasants.

Land titles are distributed to peasants.

Clashes with opponents of the Polish revolution in the villages.

People are killed, peasants' houses are burning.

Counterrevolutionaries are being escorted and exchanged.

Weapons are being loaded, and weapons are being confiscated from counterrevolutionaries.

Peasants with hoes in a field.

They plow the land with a plow.

Police confiscate goods from speculators