Name: Lenin in Newsreels (1923) @seventeenmomentsinsoviethi4921
Uploaded: 2014-04-01T01:29:31-0400
Duration: 8 min 17 s
Description: This compilation of Lenins public appearances was taken from various issues of the official Soviet newsreel, Goskinokalendar.

Stalin Speaks on Red Square (1941) @seventeenmomentsinsoviethi4921

Uploaded June 2014 | Updated September 2026, 4 days ago

Stalin's stirring appearance on Red Square for the November 7 1941 anniversary celebration, when the German troops stood a short distance from Moscow, gave people faith in a seemingly hopeless moment that not only Moscow would withstand the invaders, just as it had withstood and destroyed Napoleon in 1812, but that the Soviet Union would survive as well.

Grigorii Chukhrai. Ballad of a Soldier (1959)

First Anniversary of the Revolution (1918)

Mikhail Kalatazov. The Cranes are Flying (1957)

Trial of the murderers of Comrade Dozorov (1929)

Cossack Division Early in the War (1941)