From a peace decree to a peace program (1985)

Clouds in the sky.

A woman walking through a wheat field.

Faces of workers and scientists.

A child standing in a telephone booth.

Ice drift on the Neva.

View of part of the center of Leningrad and a section of the Neva with the cruiser Aurora.

View of the Peter and Paul Cathedral.

View of the cruiser Aurora.

An excursion climbs the gangway onto the cruiser Aurora.

An excursion on the deck of the cruiser.

View of the Lenin monument near Smolny.

View of the central part of Smolny.

Excursors read the text of the memorial plaque on the wall of Smolny.

General view of the assembly hall of Smolny.

Tribune in the assembly hall.

Memorial plaque above the tribune.

Text of the "Decree on Peace".

Newsreel from 1915-1917: German soldiers in a trench.

English soldiers carry the wounded.

View of one of the soldiers' cemeteries (from the window of a train carriage).

German generals and officers pass by during the occupation of Kyiv in 1918. Japanese warships at Vladivostok roadstead.

Japanese admirals on the deck of a ship.

The landing of Americans in Arkhangelsk.

English soldiers pass by.

Map of Soviet Russia in a ring of fronts (animation).

Newsreel from 1919: V. I. Lenin makes a speech from the balcony of the Moscow City Council in January 1919. Red Army soldiers listen to Lenin.

Red Army soldiers ride on a railway platform.

Lenin reviews the parade of the Vsevobuch troops on May 25, 1919. Troops pass along Red Square.

Lenin, leaning over the side of a truck, shakes hands with one of those present.

Panorama of part of the rally.

Lenin speaks at a rally on the occasion of the laying of the foundation of the monument "Liberated Labor" on May 1, 1920. Panorama of part of the rally.

Lenin at the laying of the foundation of the monument to Karl Marx on Sverdlov Square in Moscow on May 1, 1920. View of Lenin's office in the Kremlin.

Photograph of Lenin at the table in his office.

Newsreel from 1922: view of part of Genoa.

The guard of honor greets the arriving conference participants.

Delegates are walking to the conference meeting.

Panorama of part of the conference hall.

Photograph of Chicherin G.V. on the rostrum.

Newsreel from 1922: view of part of the conference hall of the Genoa Conference.

Conference participants are walking down the stairs.

Drawing of part of the Moscow Kremlin.

Newsreel from 1922-1923: arrival of foreign diplomats in the Kremlin.

Chicherin greets foreign diplomats.

The caps of foreign military attachés lie on the shelf.

Residents of Paris meet Soviet ambassador Krasin L.B. at the train station in 1924. Krasin on the balcony of the Soviet embassy in Paris.

Traffic on the streets of Paris.

Newsreel from 1929: construction of the Dnieper Hydroelectric Station.

View of the Dnieper Hydroelectric Station dam.

Construction of the first blast furnace at the Magnitogorsk Combine.

The first tractor leaves the workshop of the Stalingrad Tractor Plant.

New agricultural machinery drives along Red Square.

A stratospheric balloon takes off.

A Nazi event in Germany in the mid-1930s.

View of a fiery swastika.

German soldiers marching.

German tanks driving by.

Litvinov speaking from the rostrum at a meeting of the League of Nations.

Panorama of part of the meeting room.

Chamberlain waves his hat while standing at the entrance to the plane.

The signing of the Munich Agreement.

Mussolini signs the agreement.

Chamberlain signs the agreement.

Chamberlain gets off the plane after returning to London.

Chamberlain shows a copy of the agreement.

Hitler, Goering, Mussolini during a meeting.

People on the street of a Czech city raise their hands in a Nazi salute.

SS men marching.

German soldiers opening a barrier on the Polish border in 1939. A German bomber dropping bombs.

A building explodes.

A German paratrooper is dropped.

View of a burning village (above).

German soldiers unfurling a banner in Paris in 1940. German soldiers going on the attack in June 1941. German troops in action.

Parade on Red Square on November 7, 1941. A ski battalion marching down a Moscow street.

A prisoner of war with a camp number on his chest.

A German officer pokes an old woman in the face with a whip.

British Prime Minister Churchill inspects the guard of honor of Soviet troops in 1942. The face of a Soviet officer giving commands.

Soviet artillery firing at the enemy.

The burning steppe.

Soviet soldiers marching down the street of a liberated city.

Women walking towards their liberators.

Liberated Allied prisoners of war leaving the camp gate.

Soldiers carrying children out of the camp gate.

Residents of a European city rocking a Soviet officer.

People greeting Soviet soldiers and officers.

Soviet soldiers planting a banner on the roof of the Reichstag.

Soldiers and officers saluting, firing into the air.

The face of a female veteran.

Monuments to liberator soldiers in the cities of the USSR and Europe.

Faces of veterans during another meeting on May 9. A disabled veteran.

Children at the Eternal Flame.

Newsreel from 1945: Soviet and American soldiers and officers meeting on the Elbe.

A Soviet and an American soldier shake hands.

Rural landscape.

Map of the location of American military bases.

Newsreel from the 1960s: a deck signalman on an American aircraft carrier gives commands.

Airplanes take off from the deck of an aircraft carrier.

A guard at the entrance to the building housing the Warsaw Pact Joint Headquarters in 1955. Signing of the Warsaw Pact, general view of the conference hall.

Flags of the Warsaw Pact member states.

Military equipment on Red Square during the parade in 1976. May Day demonstration on Red Square.

Brezhnev L.I. during a meeting with the leaders of socialist countries.

Brezhnev and Castro F. on the podium during a rally dedicated to Soviet-Cuban friendship.

Panorama of part of the rally.

Newsreel from 1971: general view of the Kremlin Palace of Congresses (top).

Delegates of the 24th CPSU Congress in the meeting hall. L. I. Brezhnev delivers a report from the rostrum.

General view of the meeting hall of the congress (top).

View of part of the presidium of the congress.

Brezhnev delivers a speech from the rostrum.

Delegates listen to Brezhnev’s speech.

Brezhnev reads the text of the Peace Program from the rostrum (synchronously).

Delegates listen to Brezhnev’s speech.

Brezhnev continues his speech (synchronously).

Delegates in the hall applaud.

General view of the meeting hall.

The face of a Vietnamese missile officer.

The launch of a combat missile.

Vietnamese anti-aircraft gunners fire at American planes.

The shot down American plane falls apart in the air.

Panorama of a military cemetery in the USA. Demonstration of disabled veterans of the Vietnam War in the USA. Brezhnev and Nixon sign an agreement to limit nuclear tests.

A police patrol on a street in Paris.

A view of a part of the conference room of the Paris Peace Conference on Vietnam.

Members of the Vietnamese delegation at the negotiating table.

Gromyko A.A. during a conference session.

Signing of conference documents.

Photojournalists take pictures.

A rally in Vietnam in honor of the creation of a single Vietnamese state in 1975. A rally at one of the Soviet enterprises in honor of Soviet-Vietnamese friendship.

Leaders of one of the countries of Southeast Asia lay flowers at the monument to Lenin.

Newsreel from the 1960s: the face of a Palestinian.

Palestinian refugees among the ruins.

Fighting in Lebanon in the 1970s.

Shootings on the streets of Beirut.

Women's faces.

The building of the Palestine Liberation Organization.

Arafat Ya. speaks at a meeting.

Brezhnev during negotiations with Arab leaders.

View of part of the center of Moscow in June 1966. Rally on Sovetskaya Square in honor of de Gaulle's visit.

De Gaulle speaks from the balcony of the Moscow City Council, pronouncing phrases in Russian (synchronously).

View of part of Gorky Street (from above).

Signing of Soviet-French documents in the Kremlin by French President Pompidou J. and Brezhnev in 1970. Brezhnev responds to greetings from those meeting him during his visit to France in 1971. The French greet Brezhnev.

Brezhnev during a meeting with veterans of the Normandie-Niemen regiment.

Brezhnev and Pompidou signing an intergovernmental agreement.

The text of the agreement, sealed with seals.

Photojournalists take pictures.

Brezhnev during a meeting with French President Giscard d'Estaing.

West German diplomats walk along Red Square.

Signing of an agreement between the USSR and the FRG. Brezhnev inspects the guard of honor during a visit to the FRG. Demonstration in the FRG in honor of German-Soviet friendship.

Brezhnev shakes hands with Brandt W., Gromyko is standing next to him.

Demonstration for peace in one of the cities of the FRG. Brezhnev shakes hands with Brandt.

Panorama of part of New York (top).

Brezhnev and Nixon descend the stairs during Brezhnev’s visit to the USA in 1973. Americans greet Brezhnev.

Brezhnev gives people autographs.

Views of Helsinki.

Residents of Helsinki greet the Soviet delegation.

Brezhnev, President of Finland Kekkonen U., Gromyko A.A. and their entourage walk along a train carriage after the arrival of the Soviet delegation in Helsinki.

Participants of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe arrive for the first session.

A television cameraman is filming.

Panorama of the conference hall, members of the delegations are sitting at a round table.

The face of the cameraman.

The heads of the delegations sign the Agreement.

Photo reporters are filming.

The heads of delegations are signing the Agreement.

The face of a television cameraman.

Brezhnev signs the Agreement.

Typists transmit information via teletype.

An intercontinental missile in a silo.

The launch of an intercontinental missile.

A nuclear explosion.

Newsreel from the 1970s: cameramen and reporters in the hall of an international conference.

Gromyko signs an international agreement on disarmament.

The participants in the conference sign the agreement.

Text of the agreement.

Podgorny N.V. makes a speech in the Kremlin before signing another agreement on disarmament.

Employees of the international hotline at work.

Newsreel from 1974: US President Ford J. and his entourage walk along the alley during the Soviet-American negotiations in Vladivostok.

Entrance to the negotiations hall.

Brezhnev and Ford talk to each other.

Brezhnev and Ford answer journalists' questions.

Reporters in the negotiations hall.

View of a street in Vienna.

Panorama of the negotiations hall in Vienna.

A view of the UN building in New York.

Gromyko speaks from the podium at the UN. Diplomats listen to Gromyko's speech.

A view of part of the UN conference room.

African students in Moscow.

Foreign students during classes.

A rally at the Peoples' Friendship University.

The face of Mozambique President Samore Machel.

Samore Machel speaks from the podium.

People on the streets of Moscow greet Angolan President Agostinho Neto.

People give Neto flowers.

A military parade and demonstration in Luanda.

Newsreel from the 1970s: a protest demonstration against the apartheid policy in South Africa.

Police officers walk down a city street.

Black people on the street during a demonstration.

Police officers disperse the black people and shoot at them.

View of a government building in Rhodesia.

Officials on the balcony of the building.

Mugabe R. speaks to journalists, then gets into a car.

View of part of the Moscow Kremlin (top).

View of the CMEA building in Moscow.

Panorama of the meeting room of the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance.

View of part of a transformer substation of a power transmission line.

Interior views of the premises of a nuclear power plant.

Assembly of trucks on a KAMAZ conveyor.

View of a TV assembly shop.

Threshed grain pouring out.

Products of weaving factories.

The stamp of "Tekhmashexport" on a box with equipment.

Sign of the "Stankoimport" enterprise.

Trade negotiations with foreign partners.

Signing of a cooperation agreement between enterprises.

A cargo ship in the port.

View from the cabin of a port crane.

Containers with cargo in the port.

A French merchant ship being loaded in a Soviet port.

Loading and unloading cars and trucks.

A rally in a Turkish port in honor of the arrival of the Soviet trade and industrial delegation.

Members of the delegation walk along the pier.

Industrial and energy facilities built in developing countries with the help of the USSR. Newsreel from 1973: Brezhnev during a visit to India goes to a ceremonial meeting.

The participants of the meeting applaud Brezhnev.

Brezhnev speaks from the rostrum.

Brezhnev, Podgorny, Kosygin meet foreign political figures in the Kremlin.

View of the Moscow Kremlin (from above).

View of part of the foyer of the Kremlin Palace of Congresses during the 25th Congress of the CPSU in 1976. Delegates talk among themselves.

Sculpture of Lenin in the meeting hall.

General view of the meeting hall of the congress.

Brezhnev speaking from the rostrum.

Delegates in the hall listen to Brezhnev’s speech.

Brezhnev speaking from the rostrum (synchronously).

Delegates applaud.

Panorama of part of the hall.

Delegates’ faces.

Delegates listen to Brezhnev’s speech.

View of part of the hall.

Brezhnev speaking from the rostrum (synchronously).

View of a street in Berlin.

General view of the meeting hall of the Conference of Communist and Workers’ Parties of Europe.

The Soviet delegation headed by Brezhnev during a conference session.

Faces of conference participants.

Brezhnev on the television screen.

Faces of the members of the presidium of the World Forum of Peace Forces, which was held in Moscow in 1977. Forum participants listen to the speaker.

General view of the hall, a forum participant speaking from the rostrum.

Forum poster.

Brezhnev, Kosygin, and Podgorny sign the Stockholm Appeal for Peace.

Workers in a workshop sign the text of the appeal.

Face of a worker.

Text of the appeal.

The face of A.F. Kupriyanova, who lost five sons in the war.

View of the monument to Kupriyanova's sons.

International conference on non-first use of nuclear weapons against each other.

View of the White House in Washington.

Americans greet newly elected President Carter D. Carter gives a speech.

People listen to Carter.

Participants in the conference in Tula applaud Brezhnev.

Brezhnev speaks from the rostrum.

Views of Moscow.

Foreign tourists on the streets of Moscow.

Tourists on the observation deck in New York.

People on the streets of New York.

Tourists in Paris.

Taking pictures with the Eiffel Tower in the background.

Artists in Montmartre.

People on the streets of cities around the world.

A black woman with a child.

Mothers walking with their children.

Reflection of the Spasskaya Tower in the windows of the building.

Tourists standing by the monument to Lenin.