1920s - USSR: Famine; Volga German Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic Village Scenes.

NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk 1920s - USSR: Famine; Volga German Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic Village Scenes. 14:08:13 People, horses children walk across muddy square in front of houses & buildings. Pan building fronts to CU sign w/ German & Cyrillic writing: Volga German Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (near Khazakhstan). LS front of brick building w/ people in front & sign above, pan continues around area w/ large windmill in distance & log houses on buildings opposite. 14:11:45 CU sign re Workers Commune Social Welfare etc. 14:12:44 MS Women & girls posing in street. 14:12:51 LS panning farm buildings / cabins. MCU villagers & family in barnyard. 14:14:40 Pan better dressed Russians in front of wooden buildings. Pan & MCU man smoking pipe. Men posing; women in shawls pose in front of wooden buildings w/ children. 14:16:51 CU man smoking pipe, woman holding baby. Volga German Workers Commune; Ethnic Region; German-Russians; NOTE: Sold at per reel rate. NOTE: Lutheran Germans settled but pastors sent in 1919 to Siberian gulags; one-third died during Post-Revolution famine. The republic was established as Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic 20Feb24; banned by Stalin 28Aug41 & exiled to Kazakhstan & Siberia for fear of spying. Sold at per reel rate. NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk