Movie Counterrevolution will not succeed. (1968)
Reel 1
0:10:34Counterrevolution will not succeed (1968)
Annotation:
A film about the events in Czechoslovakia, Soviet-Czech negotiations, and the normalization of state, political, economic and social life in the country.
Annotation:
Czechoslovakia. Views of Prague: streets, squares, buildings. The public on the streets of the city. The building of the "231" club, where representatives of the public of Czechoslovakia opposed to the government gathered. Speeches by members of the "231" club; among them are Jan Prochazka, Ota Shik (synchronously). A meeting of representatives of six communist parties in Bratislava. Signing of a joint statement. Tourists on the streets of Prague. Soviet tanks drive through the streets of Prague. Young people set fire to tanks. A view of wounded Soviet soldiers. Soviet soldiers talk with the population of Prague.
Reel №1
Moscow Kremlin – general.
Soviet-Czechoslovak negotiations in the Kremlin at the end of August 1968. Sitting at the table are L.I. Brezhnev, A.N. Kosygin, N.V. Podgorny, L. Svoboda, members of the Soviet and Czechoslovak governments – general, cf.
Cartoon: the newspaper Pravda with the text of the Soviet-Czechoslovak communiqué.
General plan of Prague with military equipment.
Cf. plan of Prague.
Prague Clock – kr, Poland.
Moving figures on the clock – kr, cf.
Residents on the streets of Prague.
People buy anti-socialist newspapers Literárni listy on the streets, in which counter-revolutionaries attack the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, read newspapers – kr, Poland.
Newspaper – kr, Poland.
The main ideologists of the weekly "Literarni listy" are talking in the room - Dusan Gamsie, Ludwig Vesely, Ivan Klima, Antonin Liim - kr, cf.
The building in which the counter-revolutionary organization "Club 231" was located, headed by the old fascist Brodsky, the former bourgeois general Palecek, agents of foreign intelligence - kr, vecher.
Evening Prague - kr, PPR on the sign of one of the counter-revolutionary clubs - kr, vecher.
The youth in the hall are shouting, going crazy, approving the speech of Jan Prochazka, the most active propagandist of anti-socialist, anti-Soviet views - kr, vecher.
Jan Prochazka is speaking - kr (synchronously in Czech).
The youth are applauding - kr, vecher.
Speaking is Ota Šík, one of the most ardent revisionists who had allied themselves with the counterrevolutionaries, deputy chairman of the government of socialist Czechoslovakia – kr., (simultaneously in Czech).
Young people on the streets with anti-socialist placards, daytime and evening plans, cf.
A man speaking through a megaphone – cf.
Collecting signatures on the streets of Prague under the text of an appeal to the Presidium of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, regarding the position to be taken in the upcoming negotiations with the Politburo of the Central Committee of the CPSU, organized by anti-socialist elements – cf. 29/VII Members of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the CPSU and members of the Prezium of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, gathered for a meeting in Čierna nad Tisou, pass by – cf. 3 August.
Flags of the socialist countries on the building in Bratislava where a meeting of representatives of the six communist and workers' parties of the socialist countries has gathered – cf.
At the table during the meeting – general.
The statement of the communist and workers' parties of the socialist countries is signed by: Todor Zhivkov (Bulgaria), Walter Ulbricht (GDR), Janos Kadar (Hungary), Wladyslaw Gomulka (Poland), Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev and Alexei Nikolayevich Kosygin (USSR), Alexander Dubcek (USSR) – kr, kr, PPR. Present are J. Cyrankevich, M.A. Suslov, N.V. Podgorny and others.
General.
Prague and with military.
Two girls are sitting in the street – cf.
A young man and a girl are passing by – cf.
Tourists from West Germany on one of the squares of Prague – cf., kr.
A girl is taking a photo – cf.
Cars are driving by – cf.
German Chancellor Kiesinger speaks – kr.
German Foreign Minister Willy Brang speaks – kr.
Cartoon: map of Europe and socialist countries.
Soviet tanks driving down the street – gen., from a helicopter. and the Polish People's Republic.
Wed, kr. – tanks standing on the street.
Provocative anti-socialist slogans and inscriptions on the walls of buildings, on monuments – kr, kr.
Young people (unkempt youths) riot in the streets – kr, kr.
Soviet tanks driving by – kr, kr.
A young man tries to throw himself under a tank – kr.
A set-on Soviet tank is burning.
Bandits set Soviet tanks on fire, shoot at Soviet soldiers – kr.
Tanks are burning – kr, kr.
Soviet soldiers carry weapons out of the building, the secret warehouses of which were prepared by the counterrevolution – kr, kr.
Wounded Soviet soldiers – Wed, cr.
Soviet soldiers and officers talking to the population on the streets of Prague – Wed, cr.
The Polish People's Republic on the streets.
People on the streets.
Young people cleaning anti-socialist slogans and inscriptions from the walls of buildings and from a monument – Wed.
Builders repairing a street (road) – Wed.
A tram passes – Wed.
Prague – general, Wed, and from a helicopter.