A story about the principles of Soviet foreign policy and the struggle for peace.




Footage from the feature film "October": a shot from the "Aurora", the storming of the Winter Palace.
Newsreel from 1920: V. I. Lenin delivers a report in the Tauride Palace in Petrograd during a session of the 2nd Congress of the Comintern on July 19, 1920. General view of part of the rally in Petrograd.
Text of the "Decree on Peace" of October 26, 1917. Newsreel from 1920: Lenin among the delegates of the 2nd Congress of the Comintern at the Tauride Palace.
General view of part of the rally in Petrograd in 1917. People digging a pit for the construction of a plant in the late 1920s.
Riveters at work.
Panorama of the construction of an industrial enterprise.
General view of the construction of the Dnieper Hydroelectric Power Station.
German planes flying.
Falling bombs.
Bombs exploding on the ground.
German troops moving along the road.
The face of a Soviet officer.
A salvo from an artillery battery.
Soviet tanks attack.
Artillerymen load a gun.
Explosive shells.
The tail of a burning German plane on the ground.
A tank with Soviet soldiers drives along the street of a liberated city.
Fireworks in the sky over Moscow.
Faces of girls.
Fireworks over the Kremlin.
Faces of weaving girls.
Interior views of factory workshops in the USSR. Heavy tractors on railway platforms.
Steelmaking workshop of one of the factories.
Panorama of the construction site of an industrial enterprise (top).
Brezhnev L.I. speaks at a meeting of the leaders of socialist countries.
The participants in the meeting make notes on sheets of paper.
Brezhnev reads the text of his speech.
Brezhnev and Castro F. greet the participants of the Soviet-Cuban friendship rally from the rostrum.
Panorama of the rally.
Brezhnev during meetings with the Prime Minister of India Gandhi I. and Le Duan, leaders of European countries.
Soviet and American flags.
The national flags of the countries participating in the Helsinki conference are flying.
General view of the conference hall (top).
The conference participants are sitting in their seats.
Members of the Finnish delegation.
View of part of the hall.
Brezhnev signs the Final Act of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe.
General view of part of the hall (top).
The conference participants applaud.
Brezhnev and members of the Soviet delegation applaud.
The spacecraft is launched.
Cosmonauts working in orbit.
A poster in English announcing the tour of the Bolshoi Theater troupe.
Bolshoi Theater artists on stage during the tour.
A performance of the Soviet dance company abroad.
A Soviet gymnast performs.
People in the hall of the art gallery.
Tourists listen to the guide's explanations.
Flags of the Soviet Union republics against the background of the Kremlin.
People are walking to the meeting of the 25th Congress of the CPSU. General view of the conference hall in the Kremlin Palace of Congresses.
Brezhnev speaks from the rostrum.
Delegates listen to Brezhnev's speech.
Panorama of the congress presidium.
Delegates in the hall applaud.
May Day demonstration on Red Square.
View of Red Square during the May Day demonstration (above).
Lenin Vladimir Ilyich - statesman and political figure Brezhnev Leonid Ilyich - statesman and political figure
1917 07/19/1920 1920s 1941-1945
Petrograd USSR Moscow
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