Footage The first post-war agricultural year in the USSR. (1946)
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0:00:06The first post-war agricultural year in the USSR (1946)
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A convoy of tractors drives through a snow-covered village.
Men inspect a horse's hooves.
A winter livestock market.
Keywords
Preparation, agricultural machinery, food
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A wheel spins in the soggy earth.
Men pull a large boulder from the ground.
People clear the field of bushes and prepare it for plowing.
A tractor passes, plowing the field.
A tractor with a harrow drives across the field past the remains of a tank.
Keywords
uprooting, arable land, sowing, bread
Calendar:
spring
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Men pour grain into sacks and load the sacks onto a cart.
Collective farmers pour grain into a seeder.
Tractors pull the seeders across a plowed field.
Keywords
arable land, sowing, bread, agriculture, suffering, food
Calendar:
spring
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The wind carries dust across the field.
A flock of sheep in a dust storm.
The crumbling earth of a sown field.
A herd of cows in a grassless field.
Keywords
drought, food, hunger, village
Calendar:
summer
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Dried fruit trees.
Cracked earth.
A dried-up riverbed.
Crop sprouts in dry soil.
Sunflowers killed by the heat.
Keywords
drought, village, food, trouble
Calendar:
summer
Shooting locations:
Moldova, Moldova
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A panorama of lost crops.
Children gather the surviving ears of grain.
Keywords
drought, food, trouble, hunger, village
Calendar:
summer
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A freight train passes by.
Keywords
seeds, food, transportation, help
Calendar:
summer
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Older people eat a meager lunch.
Keywords
food, drought, hunger, meal, village
Calendar:
summer