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Ramshackle Russian village - VO “Russian workers had to pay most of their salary for holes like this” - narration compares poor facilities w/ expensive Soviet government buildings; INT shack w/ two tiny kids surrounded by mess - flies crawling. Woman picks through girls hair for lice. Women drawing water at well & carrying up village street. Large building w/ Russian sign. Grand official building; INT German guards demonstrate isolation cells [used by Soviet secret police / GPU / Cheka ?] - only big enough to stand up in. Anti-Communist cartoon / graffiti. Soldiers w/ white Selbstschutz / Selfdefence armbands cleaning rifles & :35 German troops launching hot air balloon / blimp / . Eastern Front. Operation Barbarossa; WW2; 1941;
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