Proof of the obvious (1990)

A panorama from a tree to a demonstration – Wed, Poland.

A demonstration by the TV tower – Wed, Poland.

Reporters are filming, a panorama of the cameraman at the microphone and those listening – Wed.

Selling newspapers, a panorama of the young man’s face – kr.

Demonstration participants are standing – Wed.

Selling photographs of the royal family – kr, departure.

Selling the newspaper “Svobodnoye Slovo” – kr.

A woman writes slogans on the parapet of an underground passage – Wed, Poland.

The building of the V.I. Lenin Museum, a panorama of a demonstration participant with a St.

Andrew’s flag – Wed.

A policeman with a walkie-talkie – kr.

A group of Young Pioneers, a police line is passing – Wed, Poland.

Policemen are dismantling and carrying barrier bars – general.

Demonstration participants are standing with banners – kr.

A clergyman with a banner at a demonstration – kr, Poland.

Young Pioneers are passing by the demonstrators – Wed.

Demonstrators are standing near the Moskva Hotel – Wed.

A speaker is speaking at a rally, the participants are shouting slogans – Wed, kr.

Slogans are hanging on the wall, demonstrators and passers-by are passing by – kr, Poland.

Banners with announcements of hunger strikes in the hands of the demonstrators – kr, Poland.

A group of Young Pioneers is watching – kr, Poland.

The inscription on the building “Concert Hall” – Wed.

Stucco molding on the building – various.

A group of young people is walking along the building – Wed.

Entrance to the building – kr.

Concert Hall “Russia” with a welcoming slogan to the participants and guests of the 21st Congress of the Komsomol – kr.

Participants of the congress are walking towards the entrance to the Concert Hall “Russia” – Wed, Poland.

A delegate to the congress, the first secretary of the Central Committee of the All-Union Leninist Young Communist League, V. Mironenko announces the opening of the congress (synchronously), begins to applaud – kr.

The hall applauds – general.

The participants of the congress are listening – cf.

A participant asks to speak at the microphone – cf.

Two delegates are studying the materials, standing at the microphone – cf.

The congress mandate is in the delegate’s hand – kr.

A queue at the microphone – kr.

A delegate to the congress asks to speak – kr, Poland.

A delegate from Dagestan M. Musayev is speaking at another microphone (synchronously) – cf., zoom in.

The delegates of the congress are listening – kr.

The female delegates of the congress listen, then begin to applaud – cf., Poland. M.S. Gorbachev and N.I. Ryzhkov in the government box during a session of the congress – kr.

The participants of the congress are applauding – kr.

A congress participant listens while standing at the microphone – kr.

Members of the Lithuanian delegation in the hall during the session – cf.

A congress participant reads a newspaper, delegates in the hall – kr.

A delegate from Lithuania, V. Mironenko and other members of the presidium listen, congress participants listen – misc.; applaud – general.

A representative of Lithuania listens and speaks (synchronously) – cf.

Congress delegate O. Smolin speaks at the microphone (synchronously) – kr, zoom in.

Congress participants are discussing something, listening – cf.

A congress delegate speaks at the microphone (synchronously) – kr, departure.

Listeners in the hall – cf., PPR, kr.

Congress participants during the session – kr. M.S. Gorbachev and N.I. Ryzhkov and other guests in the government box during the session of the congress – cf.

Congress participants in the hall during the meeting – kr.

Two congress participants are waiting and standing at the microphone – kr.

Congress delegate S. Yarin is speaking at the microphone (synchronously) – kr.

Congress delegates at the microphone – kr.

Congress participants in the hall during the meeting – kr., general.

Members of the presidium during the meeting – kr., departure.

Delegate Koshelev is speaking at the microphone (synchronously) – kr.; a representative of the city of Salekhard is speaking (synchronously) – wed, Poland.

Congress participants are listening – kr.

A representative of the Leningrad delegation is speaking at the microphone (synchronously) – wed, zoom in.

Congress participants in the hall during the meeting, in the corridors during the break – kr., general.

Representatives of the Chechen-Ingush and Kemerovo delegations, a representative of the city of Murmansk are speaking (synchronously) – various.

Congress delegates in the corridors at the entrance to the hall – general, approach.

Listening in the hall – Wed, Poland. V. Mironenko delivers his report (synchronously) – departure, zoom in.

Delegates listening – miscellaneous.

Hand on notepad with Latvian Komsomol business card – kr, Poland.

Young woman and young man from Lithuania speaking in the corridors of the congress (synchronously) – kr, Wed.

Hall during the session of the 21st Congress of the All-Union Leninist Young Communist League – general.

Congress delegates listening, a girl in national costume sitting – kr.

Congress delegates and guests listening – Wed, kr, Poland. V. Mironenko delivers his report (synchronously) – kr.

Young man speaking – participant in the demonstration (synchronously), demonstration participants with a flag – kr.

Other demonstration participants speaking (synchronously) – Wed, kr, Poland, zoom in, departure.

Congress delegates in the hall during the session – kr. V. Mironenko speaking – kr.

Hall of the Congress of Komsomol Organizations of the RSFSR – Wed, Poland.

Delegate from Yaroslavl A. Bek speaks on the sidelines of the congress (synchronously) – Wed, zoom in. V. Mironenko speaking (synchronously), members of the presidium sitting – kr. V. Ulyanova giving an interview on the sidelines of the congress (synchronously) – Wed.

Congress delegates listening – Wed. V. Mironenko speaking (synchronously) – kr.

Hands typing on an electric typewriter, the typist’s face – kr.

A sheet of text in the typewriter – kr.

Delegate Fomin giving an interview on the sidelines of the congress (synchronously) – kr, departure.

A female journalist interviews a man on the sidelines of the congress – Wed. V. Mironenko speaking (synchronously) – kr.

The delegates applaud – Wed, Poland.

Congress delegates in the corridors during a break – Wed; Panorama of the delegates standing by the piano – Wed.

A girl in the corridors during a break – Wed, Panorama.

A group of applauding delegates in the corridors, Panorama of the people dancing in the center of the group – CU. Delegates talking in the corridors of the congress – CU, Wed.

The hall during the meeting – General. V. Mironenko listens to the report of the audit commission – General.

The speaker of the audit commission is speaking (synchronously) – CU. Listeners in the hall – CU. A girl runs along the corridor and runs up to a kiosk – General, Panorama.

A young man at the kiosk is looking at a fashion magazine – CU, Panorama.

Deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR A. Sharonov in the hall during the meeting – CU. The speaker delivers the report of the audit commission (synchronously) – kr.

The delegates listen, smiling – kr.

Deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR A. Sharonov delivers a speech (synchronously) – kr.

The delegates listen – kr.

The presidium listens – general, zoom in.

Delegates V. Chirkov, Kudlash deliver speeches (synchronously) – kr.

A young man with a poster stands in front of the entrance to the Rossiya Hotel, talks to journalists – kr.

Delegates Kelpsh, Ganin deliver speeches (synchronously) – Wed, kr.

The delegates and the presidium listen – kr, Wed; laugh – kr.

Delegate Y. Shakirov delivers a speech (synchronously) – Wed.

A schoolgirl gives an interview on the sidelines of the congress (synchronously) – kr.

Delegates with a slogan in the hall – kr.

First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Komsomol of Ukraine A. Matviyenko speaks (synchronously) – ed.

Congress delegates with slogans in Ukrainian stand on the balcony of the hall – ed.

Delegate V. Kushnikov speaks (synchronously) – ed.

Delegates listen – ed.; raise their mandates – ed., departure. V. Kushnikov speaks, the chairman interjects (synchronously) – ed.

The delegates are holding raised mandates in their hands – kr, Poland.

Delegate S. Tryakin is speaking at the microphone in the hall (synchronously) – Wed.

The motto of the congress is hanging on the wall of the hall, Poland on the members of the presidium – Wed.

Listening delegates in the hall – kr.

A schoolgirl from the Rostov region V. Svinarenko is speaking (synchronously) – kr.

The participants of the congress are listening, laughing, applauding – Wed, Poland.

The chairman of the pioneer organization I. Nikitin is speaking (synchronously) – Wed, zoom in.

A banner on the balcony of the hall, the participants of the congress are listening – Wed.

A delegate from the city of Surgut A. Feduta is speaking (synchronously) – kr, departure, general.

Delegate Yu.

Bausov is talking about the problems of the disabled (synchronously) – Wed, zoom in.

Journalists on their phones and at work in the congress press center – kr, wed, panorama (with movement).

Delegate Y. Bausov leaving the stage in a wheelchair – kr, panorama.

A poster asking for donations to the fund to help disabled children on the sidelines of the congress – kr, departure.

A donation box – kr, panorama.

An Afghan soldier on the sidelines of the congress – kr.

A pioneer plays the guitar and sings, a group of pioneers sings (synchronously) - kr.

A disabled person on crutches – general, panorama.

Delegates putting money into a donation box – kr, panorama.

A group of schoolchildren delegates on the sidelines of the congress – general, panorama.

People's Deputy A. Balenko speaking (synchronously) – kr.

The congress hall during the session, the empty government box – general.

Delegate Bondarenko speaks at the microphone in the hall (synchronously) – Wed.

A communist delegate speaks at the microphone (synchronously) - Wed, zoom in.

Delegates in the hall, a banner in the hands of the delegates – Wed.

Member of the Politburo of the CPSU Central Committee E.K. Ligachev speaks at the session of the congress (synchronously) – cr.

The hall applauds – general, PNR.

Delegates in the hall, on the stage, in the presidium – various, Poland. I. T. Frolov, Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee and Editor-in-Chief of the Pravda newspaper, speaking at the microphone (synchronously) – Wed.

Delegates Loginov and Barlyuk are speaking (synchronously) – Wed, kr.

A poster in the hands of delegates in the hall – kr, departure.

Ryzhov is speaking on behalf of the CPSU Central Committee (synchronously) – kr.

Delegates Koshelev and Yashin are speaking (synchronously) – kr. E. Ligachev is listening – kr.

A delegate in the hall is reading a newspaper – kr.

Listeners in the hall – Wed, Poland.

Delegate A. Bek and representative of the democratic platform V. Lysenko are speaking at the meeting (synchronously) – kr, Wed.

Delegates at the microphone are listening – Wed.

A brochure with the materials of the congress in the hands of a delegate, the hand holds a raised mandate – kr.

A delegate walks to the microphone in the hall, another delegate speaks at the microphone (synchronously) – kr, cf.

Raised mandates in the hands of congress delegates – kr. V. Mironenko puts to a vote the question of giving the floor to the representative of the Central Committee of the CPSU V. Medvedev – general. V. Medvedev on the stage – general.

Delegates with raised mandates in the hall – kr, Poland. V. Medvedev goes backstage on the stage – cf. V. Mironenko announces that V. Medvedev is given the floor (synchronously) – cf. V. Medvedev speaks (synchronously) – kr.

A delegate yawns in the hall, another one reads a newspaper – kr.

Delegates with raised mandates in the hall – cf.

A man with a newspaper is sitting on the parapet in front of the Rossiya Hotel – general.

In front of the hotel building, a military man, congress delegate A. Potekhin (synchronously) is giving an interview – Wed, zoom in, panorama.

A man is standing by the window in the hotel – Wed.

Congress participants are standing in front of the hotel entrance – Wed.

There are shelves, panorama of women working in the information department of the Komsomol Central Committee – kr.

Delegate V. Zyukin is speaking at the congress (synchronously) – kr.

Congress participants in the hall during the meeting – Wed, panorama.

A delegate is speaking at the microphone in the hall (synchronously) – Wed, panorama.

Participants of the congress listening – kr.

Representative of Kazakhstan speaking (synchronously) – kr.

There is a flag on the back of a chair in the hall – kr.

Delegate Bunakov speaking (synchronously) – kr.

The hall during the meeting – general, panorama.

Delegates and presidium listening – wed, general.

Inscription on the stage – general.

Hands of a delegate making an entry in a notebook – kr.

Badge on the lapel of a delegate’s jacket – kr, panorama.

Delegate from Georgia speaking (synchronously) – wed.

Congress materials in the delegate’s hands – kr.

A delegate is standing at a microphone in the hall, delegate Baikov is speaking at another microphone (synchronously) – wed.

Delegates V. Mironenko, Kovshov, Levchuk speaking (synchronously) – kr.

Members of the presidium listening – kr.

The delegates are applauding, listening – general, cr, panorama.

Delegates Vazhko and Tkach, a military man and a sailor are speaking – various.

Delegates in the hall during the meeting – general.

The chairman of the counting commission is speaking (synchronously) – medium, zoom in; departure to the presidium – medium. A. Sharonov and V. Zyukin among the delegates in the hall – medium, panorama.

The delegates in the hall are releasing paper doves – medium, departure, zoom in, panorama.

A girl at the information centre at work – medium, panorama.

A young man and a girl are standing at the information stand – cr, panorama.

A paper dove is flying around the hall – cr.

An image of the Komsomol badge on the tribune of the congress – cr.

The delegates in the hall are singing a song (synchronously) – cr, panorama; the members of the presidium are applauding – cr.

The chairman of the counting commission announces the voting results (synchronously) – kr. A. Sharonov among the delegates in the hall – kr., departure. V. Zyukin stands in the presidium, then sits down – Wed.

The hall applauds, listens – Wed.

A girl speaks (synchronously) – kr.

The participants of the congress on the stage present flowers to V. Mironenko – kr., departure, zoom in. A. Sharonov gives an interview on the sidelines of the congress (synchronously) – kr.

A group of delegates is standing – general. V. Zyukin gives an interview (synchronously) – kr., Wed., zoom in.

Empty chairs of the presidium – Wed., panorama; the delegates in the hall discuss the results of the congress – Wed., panorama.