The film is about the international situation that developed during the 1930s, the support of the fascist regimes in Germany and Italy by bourgeois states, the struggle of the Spanish people against the fascists, the efforts made by the Soviet Union to prevent war and the leadership of the Communist Party in these processes.
Newsreel from the 1930s: views of European cities, protest demonstrations.
Workers in Asian colonies.
Trading on the stock exchange.
The unemployed sleep on benches.
General view of the Reichstag building in Berlin.
Members of parliament on the steps of the Reichstag.
Construction of factories in the USSR. Meeting in the Column Hall of the House of Unions.
Shvernik N.M. speaking.
People in the hall applaud.
Slogans in the hall about the early fulfillment of the five-year plan.
Meeting participants in the hall.
Foundry of one of the factories.
Faces of workers.
Japan on the world map.
Newsreel from 1931: people on the streets of Tokyo.
Children engaged in sports and military training.
Japanese soldiers practicing hand-to-hand combat.
Faces of Japanese generals and officers.
Japanese troops marching.
Deck guns of a Japanese ship firing.
Japanese field artillery firing.
An officer looking through a stereoscopic telescope.
Fighting on the streets of the city.
Bombers dropping bombs.
Explosions in the city.
View of the street of one of the cities (above).
Atrocities of the Japanese military, reprisals against the civilian population.
People are buried alive.
Soldiers shoot civilians.
Map of the capture of China by Japan.
Newsreel from 1933: Hitler drives down the street in a car, people greet him.
People run to greet Hitler.
The car stops at the podium.
Hitler gets out of the car.
Stormtroopers hold back the crowd.
Hitler speaks at one of the events.
People in the hall greet Hitler.
Hitler shakes hands with the generals standing nearby.
Torchlight procession in Leipzig.
A fiery swastika at the stadium.
Leaders of the Nazi Party speak.
Photographs of German communists imprisoned in concentration camps.
Hitler speaks from the podium.
General view of the hall, people listen to Hitler.
Hitler continues his speech.
SS troops on parade.
Hitler greets the SS men.
Stormtroopers marching.
Guns of a German warship.
Hitler on board the ship.
The ships conduct target practice.
Delegates to the 17th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) applaud I.V. Stalin.
Stalin speaks from the rostrum.
The text of Stalin’s report, published in the newspaper Pravda.
Newsreel from 1934: delegates to the 17th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) in the meeting hall.
Voroshilov K.E. and Stalin in the presidium of the congress.
The delegates applaud.
Photographs from the meeting of the League of Nations.
Newsreel: Litvinov M.M. speaks from the rostrum of the League of Nations.
People listen to Litvinov’s speech.
Newsreel from 1935: May Day celebrations in Moscow.
People at a demonstration.
General view of Red Square from above.
People carry flags and flowers.
Budyonny S.M. and Voroshilov on the rostrum of the mausoleum.
Stalin and Voroshilov on the mausoleum tribune.
View of part of Red Square during the May Day demonstration.
Text of the Soviet-French treaty on mutual assistance, publications in Soviet and French newspapers.
Text of the Soviet-Czechoslovak treaty.
Newsreel: Moscow during the 7th Congress of the Comintern.
Congress delegates in the meeting hall.
Stasova E.D. and Krupskaya N.K. in the meeting hall.
Faces of the delegates.
A congress delegate speaks.
Togliatti P. speaks.
The delegates applaud Togliatti.
Dimitrov G.M. speaks.
Italian fascists march on a square in Rome.
Mussolini B. and Hitler stand on the tribune during the parade.
Mussolini speaks from the balcony of a palace in Rome.
People in the square greet Mussolini.
Mussolini continues to speak.
Newsreel: military operations in Abyssinia.
Abyssinian soldiers defend their positions.
An anti-aircraft machine gun crew fires at an airplane.
An airplane in flight.
Machine gunners fire.
The airplane falls.
Shells explode.
Soldiers carry the wounded.
Killed civilians.
A burning hut.
A man with a child in his arms.
A burning village.
Litvinov speaks at the League of Nations.
A meeting of the League of Nations.
Retreating Abyssinian troops.
Newspaper articles about the work of the peace congresses in 1936. Photographs of anti-war and anti-fascist demonstrations in European cities.
Newsreel: a demonstration in support of the Popular Front in Spain.
A Spanish Republican soldier walks with a girl along a city alley.
Children splash in the water near the shore.
Stalin Joseph Vissarionovich - statesman and political figure Shvernik Nikolai Mikhailovich - statesman and political figure Litvinov Maxim Maksimovich - statesman and political figure
diplomat Voroshilov Kliment Efremovich -- statesman and political figure
military leader Budyonny Semyon Mikhailovich -- military leader Krupskaya Nadezhda Konstantinovna -- revolutionary
public and political figure Stasova Elena Dmitrievna -- revolutionary public and political figure Dimitrov Georgiy Mikhailovich -- Bulgarian statesman and political figure Togliatti Palmiro -- Italian statesman and political figure Mussolini Benito -- Italian statesman and political figure Hitler Adolf -- German statesman and political figure
1931-1936
Berlin Tokyo Rome Moscow Leipzig Africa China Spain
Summer Winter
Newsreel from 1936: people stroll along the embankment in a Spanish city.
Fascist planes fly overhead.
People look up at the sky.
Planes drop bombs.
People fleeing the bombing in the streets.
Bodies of people killed in an air raid.
People pull a small child out from under the rubble.
A motorcycle and a car drive down the street.
General Franco gets out of a train carriage and greets Hitler.
Mussolini gives a speech.
Italian fascists greet Mussolini.
German soldiers march.
Military action in Spain.
Fascist bombers fly overhead.
The navigator presses the bomb bay button.
Bombs fly toward the target.
People fleeing the bombing.
The face of a fascist pilot.
Bombs flying down.
Jose Diaz speaks.
A rally in a Madrid square.
Diaz continues his speech.
A barricade on a Madrid street.
Republican fighters at the barricade.
Republicans fire at the enemy.
Foreign volunteers travel to Spain.
Soviet ships arrive in Barcelona.
Soviet captain greets the Spaniards.
Residents of Barcelona greet Soviet sailors.
The stern of the steamship "Zyryanin".
Fighters of the International Brigades go to battle positions.
The face of an elderly woman.
Faces of fighters of the International Brigades.
Republicans march along the highway.
Newsreel from 1937: Japanese soldiers listen to the Emperor's speech.
Japanese warships sail.
Airplanes fly.
Japanese troops march along the Great Wall of China.
An airplane flies in the sky.
Houses are burning.
Japanese artillerymen at a gun.
A destroyed city block.
Soldiers jump off trucks.
People watch them, standing on the sidewalk.
Atrocities of the Japanese occupiers on the streets of Chinese cities.
Japanese soldiers on the march.
Japanese Minister of War Tojo speaks from the rostrum.
People greet Tojo.
Japanese soldiers perform a ritual.
View of the area in the area of Lake Khasan.
Soviet border patrol patrolling the border.
Airplanes flying by.
Anti-aircraft machine gun crew firing at aircraft.
Burning plane crashes.
Bomber wing.
Pilots in the cockpit.
Shells exploding.
Soviet tanks attack.
Gun firing.
Artillery spotter transmits data for firing.
Guns firing.
Corpses of Japanese soldiers killed during the battles at Lake Khasan.
Red Army soldier folds captured Japanese helmets.
Map of Europe.
Newsreel from 1938: Hitler speaks from the podium.
Hitler and the Wehrmacht command discuss plans to seize European states.
Text and maps of the Barbarossa plan.
Newsreel: views of the streets and squares of Vienna.
German soldiers taking the oath.
General view of one of the Nazi events.
Soldiers marching.
A tank driving by.
A military column moving along the road.
Map of the capture of Austria by the Germans.
Photograph of Westminster Abbey in London.
Photograph of New York skyscrapers, texts of telegrams from the ministries of foreign affairs on the attitude towards the seizure of Germany by Austria.
Text of the statement of the People's Commissariat of Foreign Affairs of the USSR. Newsreel from 1938: views of the streets and squares of Prague.
Hitler speaks from the rostrum.
The flags of Germany, France and England are fluttering.
Prime Minister of Great Britain N. Chamberlain descends from the steps of an airplane.
Chamberlain is met at the airport.
Prime Minister of France Daladier.
Signing of the Munich Agreement.
Articles in foreign newspapers about the seizure of Czechoslovakia.
Newsreel from 1939: a lowering barrier on the border.
A border post with the coat of arms of Czechoslovakia.
German troops enter Czechoslovakia.
Soldiers ride in trucks along the streets of the city.
Faces of townspeople.
The clock on the Spasskaya Tower of the Kremlin.
Delegates of the 18th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) in the meeting hall.
Text of Stalin's report.
Congress delegates in the conference hall.
Telegraph operators and telephone operators at work.
Mongolian border guards on patrol.
View of a section of the Khalkhin-Gol River.
Commander of the troops, Corps Commander Zhukov G.K. develops a plan of operation.
Marshal Choibalsan marches accompanied by Soviet soldiers.
Soviet tanks cross the river.
Soviet infantry attacks.
Machine gun fires.
Japanese gun fires.
Red Army soldiers escort captured Japanese soldiers.
Broken Japanese guns.
Map of Europe with territories captured by Germany.
German troops move to the East.
Newspaper announcement of the start of negotiations with the British and French military missions.
Announcement in the newspaper "Pravda" of the conclusion of the Soviet-German non-aggression pact.
Soviet factories in operation.
Workers in the shops of metallurgical enterprises.
The Spanish Civil War
Mussolini, Benito -- Italian statesman and politician Hitler, Adolf -- German statesman and politician Franco, Francisco -- Spanish statesman and politician Diaz, Jose -- Spanish revolutionary and political figure Tojo, Hideki -- Japanese statesman and politician
military leader Chamberlain Neville -- British statesman and politician Daladier Edouard -- French statesman and politician Zhukov Georgy Konstantinovich -- military leader Choibalsan Khorloogiin -- Mongolian statesman and politician
military leader
1935-1939
Moscow Berlin Madrid Spain Rome Barcelona China Japan Mongolia USSR Prague Munich
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