This fascinating newsreel is one in a series called “View of the Soviet World”, which was intended to educate American audiences about their new ally, the USSR. This particular episode shows the Red Army’s fight against the invading German army in 1942, with a focus on the nation’s vast resources and industrial might. It is titled “All for Victory”. It shows the complete mobilization of the nation’s resources including iron, steel, oil and food as well as manpower aimed at defeating the enemy invaders. Soviet anti-aircraft gunners hit back against Luftwaffe bombers, metallurgists feed the war machine, oil workers prospect for and unearth fuel resources, farmers harvest wheat for food supplies and female Red Cross workers dedicate themselves to the war effort.

00:00 The title screen appears (:18). The film opens with Soviet troops and dogs marching (:30). Mounted soldiers drive through dirt (:42) Camouflaged artillery and tanks move down the supply line (:54). Narration boasts the Red army defied Hitler (1:08). Tracked trucks carry manpower (1:17). Soviet soldiers strap bombs onto the wing of a plane (1:24). Surrounding troops run for a light tank (might be the T-26) for the foreword drive (1:28). The supply line rolls through the woods as bomber planes zoom overhead (1:38). A BA-10 Soviet armored car drives past (1:43) with a gunner hanging from the open hatch. Wide shots show tanks filling the field (2:00). Artillery bends up for incoming planes (2:04). Ground shots watch soldiers reload (2:07) and ducking back for cover. Black explosions (2:11) send earth and tree chunks high. A stream of explosion run across landscape shots (2:16). Howitzers (2:24) blast large explosions. Luftwaffe bomber planes crash and deteriorate (2:43). Debris smolders on the ground (2:47); the Nazi swastika symbol in view. Red soldiers rush ahead with bayonets on rifles (3:03). The view runs over captured artillery (3:07). Close shots show a German wooden transport container and it’s markings (3:11). Red Army soldiers dig through cases and personal belongings of the downed German fliers (3:14). POW’s march past the camera (3:20). Close shots show the skull and crossbone insignia used to designate members of the Totenkopf on a motorcycle and sidecar (3:40). A German soldier’s carcass lies nearby (3:41). Steel mill workers funnel material into the furnace (4:03). Metal to produce new tanks roll out from a factory (4:24). Oil derricks drag up fossil fuels (4:36). A man checks the readout (4:51). Overhead shots watch the drill turning (4:55). Fresh oil spills out (5:11). Oil barges move through waters (5:14). Oil tankers drive over railroad tracks (5:27). Wheat fields in Kazakhstan get harvested (5:39) with modern farming equipment. Grain pours from the back of the tractors (5:50). A tractor drags a string of wagons loaded with sacks of grain (6:42). Russians wait in the hospital recreation area (6:50). Nurses take blood from donors (6:55). Health care workers pack the blood for use on the war front (7:13). Medical supplies are loaded into trucks (7:26). Female medical workers get their arms wrapped with Red Cross bands as they get ready for work on the war front (8:05). One of the women cranks a siren (8:18). A gas mask gets strapped onto a woman’s face (8:28). A wounded soldier has his leg tended to (8:36). Wounded are carted off by litter (8:46). Workers take off their gas masks (9:08) as the film concludes (9:18).

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