The Truth About Communism Part 2: WWII Prelude And Aftermath” is a 1962 American black-and-white anti-communist propaganda film narrated by Ronald Reagan and directed by Sid O. Fields.
New York Times August 26th, 1935 (0:29). Communist International; rioters New York Public Library (0:33). Pro-communist parade, Paris (0:49). Mao Zedong Yan’an China (0:58). Tanks Red Square, Moscow State Historical Museum (1:10). Stalin, other leaders look onto Red Square from Kremlin Wall (1:22). Hitler speech (1:42). Soviet steam locomotive (1:46). Triple Alliance Negotiations 1939; perhaps Pierre Laval (1:50). German foreign minister Joachim von Ribbentrop meets Maxim Litvinov in Moscow (2:16). Nazi invasion of Poland: Nazi soldiers in rural village on Zündapp KS 750 motorcycles (2:32). Aerial view Red Army tanks along dusty plain, Soviets move into Poland (3:01). POWs in Siberia (3:13). Polish woman speaks to packed room; Khrushchev,Semyon Timoshenko applaud her words (3:21). Mass graves at Katyn Forest, Katyn Massacre (3:50). Stalin speaks from podium (4:17). Vyacheslav Molotov walks Berlin streets, meets with Nazi officials (4:33). Soviet Invasion of Finland: destroyed buildings, fires (4:43). Finnish soldiers run through snowy forest (5:02). Finnish refugees pack up homes (5:18). Soviet invasion of Latvia: Soviet Naval ship on Baltic Sea, Red Army marches through Riga (5:31). Andrey Vyshinsky speaks to crowd (5:54). Augusts Kirhenšteins meets with officials at long table, Soviet puppet government (5:58). Signs in Latvian raised by protestors demand Latvia be admitted to Soviet Union (6:05). Perhaps Johannes Puray (Latvian Communist Party) speaks to crowd (6:09). Latvian Premier Augusts Kirhenšteins waves from train (6:16). Stalin, Khrushchev, Molotov, Mikoyan, Kaganovich (6:26). Aerial view demonstration in Latvia, posters of Stalin (6:28). Latvian women sew flags in factory featuring hammer and sickle (6:40). Communist propaganda machine: murals of Stalin, Communist literature, posters (6:44). Nationalizing assets: women in shoe warehouse, taking itinerary of merchandise (7:06). Latvian woman in headscarf sits somberly (7:24). Factory workers sign pledges, farmers join collectives (7:35). Prisoners freed, stand with raised fists in striped uniform (7:51). Police officer training (8:03). Album with booked criminals (8:06). New Latvian constitution (8:53). Dissenters loaded on to trains, taken to labor camps (8:56). Children perform in propaganda play (9:06). Mass grave in Riga, executions (9:30). Soviet invasion Estonia, Lithuania (9:52). Soviet takeover of Romania: Khrushchev, Timoshenko speak to various crowds, groups of soldiers (10:15). Timoshenko entertains, salutes officers of Axis powers in Red Square (10:38). Hitler at podium (10:41). Nazis attack Soviet Union (10:56). Stalin propaganda video justifying non-aggression pact with Hitler (11:24). Streets pact with angered Russians, protesting Stalin; other towns welcome German soldiers with hospitality (12:26). Battle of Stalingrad: graphic images of corpses, mass graves (12:56). Stack of crates in shipyard, trucks, planes American aid ready to be sent to USSR (13:26). Stalin talks with General Sikorski (exiled Polish government ) (13:49). Czech government in exile signs treaty with Stalin (14:01). General Sikorski, Duke of Windsor march down street lined with patriotic citizens (14:10). Franklin D. Roosevelt, Stalin sit side-by-side (14:42). Lublin Committee (14:49). Liberating Poland: Russian tanks charge through field, Polish Resistance Forces offensive Warsaw, Massacred Polish Resistance Forces (15:01). Stalin genocide of indigenous people: perhaps Tuvan family riding horseback (16:23). Map of Soviet controlled Eastern Europe (16:37). Destruction after Soviet forces looted factories in Manchuria (16:50). Molotov, Stalin, Chiang Kai-Shek representatives sign treaty (17:09). Mao Zedong (17:30). American Ambassador George C. Marshall, Zhang Qun treaty (17:37). Mao military parade (18:00). Celebratory parade in Peking (18:13). Stalin disarmament policy (18:31). Cold War begins: military parade Red Square (18:48). Puppet governments: Romania Dr. Groza; Dej, East Germany Pieck; Grotewohl, Yugoslavia Tito, Albania Hoxha, Bulgaria Dimitrov, Poland Bierut, Hungary Rákosi (19:02). Communist rallies, dove of peace (19:28). Election, establishment of Hungarian People’s Republic (20:02).
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