Footage Battle for the harvest in the USSR. (1947)
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0:00:22Battle for the harvest in the USSR (1947)
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A line of trucks drives down the road at night.
A view from above of a field and combines.
Harvesting.
Trucks carrying grain.
Keywords
bread, corn, bins, food, five-year plan, the first post-war years
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Reel №2
A view of the grain storage facility.
On the wall of a train car, a woman writes: To Leningrad from the workers of Belarus.
Keywords
corn, food, five-year plan, bins, the first post-war years
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Reel №3
A cameraman chats with the collective farm women, lining them up for filming.
The girls are holding the fruits of their labor—a sheaf of wheat, a bunch of carrots, a head of cabbage.
Keywords
shooting, food, five-year plan, collective farm, Heroes of Labor, the first post-war years
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Reel №4
Collective farmers are heading to the club.
The documentary "Heroes of Collective Farm Labor" is playing on the club's screen.
The film shows people being awarded for their work.
Keywords
food, granaries of the Motherland, five-year plan, village, the first post-war years
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Reel №5
Orders and medals are laid out on the table.
An official presents an award to a woman and shakes her hand.
The award is being presented to 24-year-old collective farm chairwoman Maria Pustik.
Keywords
Heroes of Labor, five-year plan, village, result, the first post-war years
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Reel №6
L.I. Brezhnev presents awards to Moldovan collective farmers at a field camp and exhibition.
The Ion Soltys Collective Farm.
A ceremonial event takes place around a decorative pyramid of vegetables, fruits, and loaves of bread.
Brezhnev speaks with the collective farmers.
Keywords
Heroes of Labor, food, five-year plan, the first post-war years, bins
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In a collective farm field, among the combine harvesters, women in national costumes honor K.P. Orlovsky with sheaves of wheat and a wreath.
Nina Yakovleva, a Hero of Socialist Labor, prepares for the ceremony.
Makar Posmitny, the collective farm chairman, is ceremoniously presented with a loaf of bread in honor of his Hero of Socialist Labor title.
Nina Yakovleva places a wreath of wheat ears on the chairman's head.
Keywords
five-year plan, celebration, reward, food, the first post-war years
Persons:
Kirill Orlovsky, chairman of the Rassvet collective farm and an employee of the USSR state security agencies
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Reel №8
Rural night landscape.
Horses in the night.
Keywords
village, village, nature, dawn
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Reel №9
The radio station of the Stalin collective farm in the village of Koltsovka, the announcer is speaking (synchronously).
Keywords
village life, five-year plan, rural labor, dawn
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Reel №10
Collective farm women go to work with shovels, riding in the back of a truck.
Trains carrying tractors and combines pass by.
Keywords
village life, five-year plan, collective farm labor, food