https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/8adf35dd-be63-457a-a2f5-9fa02bd25aa2 This movie, directed by L.Tsvetkova and V.Granatman, for the Ministry of the Education of the USSR, depicts the Russian Civil War and the foreign intervention in that war, as well as the subsequent war between Poland and the nascent Soviet Union. Interestingly, the Civil War portion of the movie only pays cursory attention to the White Russian Army. 0:06 WWI footage of French and British soldiers 0:08 WWII North Atlantic convoy footage. 0:12 Russian light cruiser Bayan, or the IJN light cruiser of Sendai class 0:16 Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) officers, wearing the 2nd reform Navy uniform – Russo-Japanese war-era (1904-1905) footage. 0:28 Imperial Japanese army troops in their winter uniforms disembarking from a transport 0:34 Japanese Marines 0:37 text of the Woodrow Wilson's (American) peace treaty proposal during the Brest Peace conference 0:53 Russian newspaper “Russia, attacked from the East” 1:10 Newspapers of the Russian Civil War era 1:15 Kaiser Wilhelm the 2nd 1:20 German and Russian Imperial/White army officers saluting. 1:30 A Russian Imperial/White Army general, possibly General Grigory Semyonov 1:31 Cossacks marching. 2:00 The Russian White Army marching 2:07 “Death Head” flag of the White Army Cossacks 2:08 A mock execution 2:12 Real footage of an execution 2:26 Photo still of a hanged man 2:35 A diagram showing the advance of the Foreign Intervention Force 2:48 Footage of Soviet refugees on the streets, presumably during the Povolzhye famine 2:59 Footage of a starving African boy. 2:59 3:07 Photos of Vladimir Lenin in his work room. 3:34 Admiral Alexander Kolchak and his White Army troops 3:46 Cossacks lining up in front of a country house. 3:54 An officer teaching conscript 3:56 Conscripted men learn to march 3:59 Village volunteers marching past the crowd. An Orthodox priest stands among the crowd, which makes this footage as likely to be of White Army 4:03 Vladimir Lenin at a Red Army parade on Red Square 4:23 The First Soviet Constitution, establishing universal military conscription. 5:08 Kliment Voroshilo , Nikolai Podvoisky, Vladimir Antonov-Ovseenko, Joseph Stalin , Mihail Frunze , Tukhachevsky, Budyonny, Vassily Chapaev, Grigory Kotovsky, Nikolai Shchors, Pavel Dybenko, Vasily Blyukher, Sergo_Ordzhonikidze, Nikolay_Tolmachyov, Sergei Kirov 5:40 Lenin at Moscow Command School. 6:10 Propaganda workers throwing newspapers off a train 6:19 A propaganda train 6:34 Leon Trotsky addressing a crowd, Vladimir Lenin at 6:47 walking with the crowd 7:00 Newspapers announcing the attempt on Lenin's life and the Red Terror 7:12 Newspapers announcing nationalization of all private companies 7:23 Volga River Military Flotilla 7:40 Battle footage from the Civil War and WWI 8:12 Footage of Red Army cavalry in the streets of Samara 8:28 Red Army foreign volunteer battalions – Polish, German and Chinese. 9:43 Repeal of the Brest-Litovsk peace treaty by the Soviet Union 10:14 The 3rd Comintern assembly in 1919 in Moscow 11:07 Allied Intervention Headquarters, 11:10 victory in WW1 parade of the Japanese in the Shanghai Bund under English, French and Japanese flags, and finally Canadians in Vladivostok, Russia 11:21 Photo of Admiral Kolchak accompanied by British and other allied commanders 11:30 Footage of the loading railyard and the platform trains loaded with British Mark V tanks 11:40 Allied armored column 12:10 Women assembling munitions 12:16 Men and women unloading and loading, lumber from trains and barges during a subbotnik 12:24 Man holding a roundel of wood with his naked hand, while others wildly swing hammers. 12:31 F-model passenger tram loaded with lumber. 12:43 An armored train 13:10 Revolutionary Red Seamen of Saint Petersburg 13:15 F-model tram in Saint Petersburg, by loaded with field guns, passing by the Peter the Great statue. 13:19 Armored cars (Ford AA and Daimler-Benz) on a Vassikievski ostrov quai . 13:27 Revolutionary Red Seamen 13:41 General of the White Army Anton Denikin 14:05 The introduction of the Communist Party Week 14:18 Lenin filmed outside in winter, addressing an unseen crowd from a balcony 14:29 More reenactment battle footage 15:24 Withdrawal of foreign armies from Russia 15:33 A Great White Fleet American battleships evacuating American troops 15:50 Footage of aftermath: destroyed railway lines, buildings, bridges, sick and starving people etc. 17:13 Polish Soviet War of 1919-1921 Poland attacks the Soviet Union 18:11 Counter offensive by the First Cavalry Army against the White Polish forces 18:34 Red Army cavalry commander, General Anton Blucher 19:00 Narrator “Red Army freed Crimea and ended the war”. 19:08 Map of the Soviet Russia showing the advance of the Red Army. Narrator: “In a struggle against all the world's imperialists and counter-revolutionaries, the Soviet state, led by the Lenin's communist party, has won!” Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PwitSgGPa4 Mirrored from Periscope Film (https://www.youtube.com/@PeriscopeFilm) Sat, 13 Jun 2026 14:25:03 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://peertube.dngr.us https://peertube.dngr.us/lazy-static/avatars/41a6fee9-7f57-42d0-a5fc-5db4f1af2e31.png https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/8adf35dd-be63-457a-a2f5-9fa02bd25aa2 All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://peertube.dngr.us/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.