SOVETSKAIA UKRAINA Reel 1 · Part 2

Description

Documentary: On the Soviet effort to rebuild industry, agriculture, housing, and culture in the Soviet Ukraine. Shows intense Ukrainian support for the Soviet system. Reel 1, views of a monument dedicated to Taras Shevchenko, famous Ukrainian poet and freedom fighter in Kiev; Ukrainians rebuild after war destruction and sign a pledge to fulfill the current 5-year plan on the 30th anniversary of the October Revolution. Reel 2, shows Stakhonvites working in Ukrainian industrial plants and farmers building a hydro-electric station. Lazar Kaganovich, Secretary of the Ukrainian Communist Party examines coal mines in Donbas. Reel 3, views of "Soviet-Ukrainian heroes" on collective farms and in steel plants. Reel 5, scenes in Kiev, including a youth-parade with Kaganovich and Nikita Khrushchev, chairman of the Ukrainian Council of Ministers reviewing. Reel 6, smiling, energetic and conscientious workers harvest wheat on a Lithuanian collective farm and celebrate afterwards in an outdoor feast.

Collection

National Archives Collection of Foreign Records Seized

Series

Motion Picture Films From G-2 Army Military Intelligence Division