Our report for Russia (Report from Great Britain) (1942)

England.

Workers of the central power station of London at the table talk about the Soviet Union and England's help in the common struggle against German fascism.

The story is entrusted to Tom Barker, who in 1921 was invited as a foreign specialist to Kuzbass.

Tom Barker speaks about himself in Russian, he was a tram driver on the Liverpool, Langley trams, worked in shipyards, copper mines of Chile, a sailor on Danish and Norwegian ships, organized a seamen's union in Buenos Aires, and now works at the London power station.

Industrial landscape, smokestacks of factories are smoking.

English mine, miners are going down, work in the coalface.

English workers in factories, shipyard.

A train is coming.

The English are proud of the fact that they invented the steam engine.

Shipyard, work in the port, welding, shipbuilding.

Map of England.

Bristol Channel with ships.

In peacetime, the sea coast is used for recreation.

Beach, vacationers swim, sunbathe England.

At the end of 1940, the coast became the scene of terrible events.

Winston Churchill gave them the name: "The Great Deliverance at Dunkirk".

The English military and civilian fleet was used to snatch the British army from the jaws of death.

Soldiers on ships.

Rescue of the wounded on ships.

Transfer of the wounded inland by trains.

A train with the wounded, women in military uniform hand out mugs of tea, fruit.

Convoys with refugees on the roads.

A field kitchen prepares food for them, people are fed at tables.

People with things who were saved in England.

French fishermen arrived on their ships, the Norwegians brought tankers.

A mine on the water, the mine is fired at from the ship, it explodes.

English planes are flying England.

France.

Hitler in Dunkirk.

German paratroopers jump from planes.

England lost the equipment of the entire northern army in Dunkirk.

English troops in formation, an officer passes.

English militia.

Residents remove signs from poles, road junctions and railway stations to misinform the enemy.

Bunker, a cannon fires.

An English captain looks through binoculars.

English pilots get into cars and take off.

Attack of English soldiers.

Battle of Dover, Germans 30 km from the city, they use artillery.

Dover, ruins of houses.

People clear away the ruins.

Hitler wanted to destroy English aviation.

The struggle became known as the "Battle of Britain".

Air battle with German planes.

A damaged plane falls, burns on the ground.

Churchill with the pilots.

Wreckage of planes.

A newspaper seller writes the result of downed planes on the board with chalk, hands out newspapers.

Airplanes from the USA are being unloaded at the port

England.

Naval battle for the Atlantic Ocean.

Guns on English ships.

Damaged ships, sailors in lifeboats, rafts.

A damaged ship is burning, sinking.

English ships are shooting.

Airplanes are shooting at ships.

Anti-aircraft guns are firing from ships.

England suffered heavy losses England.

Hitler decides to destroy the ports and industrial centers of England.

November 7, 1940, a raid on the London dock begins.

Fires in the dock, ships, port facilities, cranes are burning in the dark.

Firefighters are putting out the fire.

Buildings are burning, fire is pouring out of the windows.

The city of Coventry is in ruins after the bombing.

Ruins of the cathedral, houses. 30 thousand houses of workers from Liverpool, Cardiff, Manchester, Glasgow were destroyed.

The population is sorting out the ruins.

People are carrying stretchers with the wounded and killed.

Funeral of victims in Coventry in a fraternal grave.

In early 1941, German aircraft bomb central London.

Ruins in the city of England.

Workers continue to work.

Work at the mine.

The aircraft factory in Coventry has resumed work.

Airplanes are being assembled.

English women at their machines, producing shells.

Loading and unloading is underway at the port.

Squadron at sea England.

June 22, 1941 Churchill addresses the English people on the radio with a message about the beginning of the war with the USSR. The crowd in the square listens to Churchill's speech, the radio is listened to at workplaces, soldiers listen.

Churchill among the people.

Churchill with the military.

Churchill near his house, he delivers a speech in front of a microphone England.

The British Air Force begins bombing Germany, bombing Bremen, Cologne, Hamburg, Augsburg, Lubeck.

The pilots look at the shells, the departure of aircraft on a mission, the bombing.

July 1941, pilots at headquarters, reports on the bombing of Germany.

Berlin radio.

A satirical picture about an announcer who reports sometimes about British, sometimes about Russian aviation, bombing the cities of England.

A working meeting at a tank-building plant.

The factory foremen decide to increase the production of tanks for the Soviet Union.

Soviet Plenipotentiary Representative Maisky visits factories in England.

Maisky makes a speech.

A train with a Soviet military mission arrives to discuss common tasks.

The mission is met by members of the government

England.

The English minister and newspaper magnate Beaverbuck visits Moscow.

An English carriage factory, the names of workers who exceeded their quotas.

Beaverbuck holds a meeting in the editorial office with military experts.

A tank factory, airplanes.

Beaverbuck gets off the plane, walks around the guard of honor.

An English tank factory, a statistician expert notes the growth of production on a table.

Beaverbuck in Moscow in 1942, he sends a telegram to English factories.

Beaverbuck in his office, gives an interview about his trip, speaks in industrial centers to workers, talks about Stalin.

Trains with English tanks are moving England.

The Reynolds News newspaper, a headline about the failure of Hitler's blitz plan.

Photos and newsreel about a meeting of Soviet and English soldiers in Iran.

English tanks are moving.

Soldiers of the two armies are talking.

Interest in the Soviet Union has increased in England.

People are reading Soviet books, a library.

Posters of Soviet films, a queue at the cinema.

Performances in theaters based on Soviet plays, for example, Afinogenov.

A poster for a concert of a women's and children's choir.

A dramatic adaptation of the film "Alexander Nevsky" is broadcast on the radio.

The famous English actor Robert Donan reads Alexander Nevsky's monologue "Whoever enters us with a sword ..." in front of a microphone.

The British Army listens to lectures about the Red Army and heroic partisans.

In 1942, a large rally was held in London dedicated to the celebration of 24-1 anniversary of the Red Army.

Soviet naval attaché Admiral Kharlamov delivers a speech in English.

A monument is unveiled at the house in London where V.I. Lenin lived in 1902. The Soviet delegation headed by Maisky lays flowers at the monument.

England.

Mrs.

Churchill makes an appeal in favor of the Red Cross Fund and aid to the Soviet Union. "Aid weeks" are organized in the cities, children collect things from the population to sell in favor of the Soviet Union.

The proceeds from the football match between the teams of England and Scotland go to the Red Cross Fund.

Moments of the game.

Mrs.

Churchill shakes hands with the players.

Wembley Stadium, spectators in the stands.

English and Soviet flags hang nearby.

Among the spectators are the Soviet military and naval attachés.

British Foreign Minister Eden visits the Soviet front.

He is in a winter forest with a group of soldiers.

Lying in the snow corpses of German soldiers, destroyed tanks

England.

Soviet trade union delegates visit English factories.

A meeting is held at the shipyard, female delegates speak.

May 1942, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the USSR Molotov arrives in England by plane.

By train, he arrives at a station near London with Eden and Maisky.

A street with the Soviet embassy, a sentry passes.

In Churchill's house, he and Molotov go down the stairs.

The negotiations end with the conclusion of the Treaty between the Soviet Union and England.

The negotiating table, the signing of the treaty.

Molotov's speech.

Treaty of May 26, 1942 England.

Rehearsal of landing of English troops on the coast of Norway to gain the necessary experience for more important operations and weaken the enemy's defense.

Landing of troops on the shore.

Soldiers in the mountains, gunfire.

Prisoners are led down the street.

A ship with soldiers on board, landing from the sea.

Tanks are moving, planes are flying, ships are sailing.

Artillery is firing