This Soviet newsreel dates to the 1960s and shows the newest tractors and agricultural equipment being produced within the USSR. As vivid as any sales film for John Deere (and complete with campy music), the film must have thrilled those who lived on collective farms. We don't speak Russian but if you do -- please post comments about what the narrator is saying. We encourage viewers to add comments and, especially, to provide additional information about our videos by adding a comment! See something interesting? Tell people what it is and what they can see by writing something for example: "01:00:12:00 -- President Roosevelt is seen meeting with Winston Churchill at the Quebec Conference." This film is part of the Periscope Film LLC archive, one of the largest historic military, transportation, and aviation stock footage collections in the USA. Entirely film backed, this material is available for licensing in 24p HD, 2k and 4k. For more information visit http://www.PeriscopeFilm.com
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iam russian
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In this short film, I see modern agricultural equipment being produced to a functional standard, doing the laborious jobs speedily. I also see adaptations being made (in the latter scenes), demonstrating ingenuity; solving a mechanical problem utilising existing equipment in a new way. This is high quality photography, similar to what I regularly enjoy from my favourite farming channel "Tractorspotter", except the drone views weren't possible in the 60's and 70's.
Where is the propaganda aspect if we can't understand the language? i.e. distortion of the truth by glossing over negatives, emphasising positives - like a used car sales pitch. Seems pretty legit to me. I traversed East Germany in 1970 for a few days (freely in my own hired car, without "minders" to escort me), and was "shocked" to see a functioning community of apparently happy people enjoying their lives, just like in Australia, where I had come from. Western Media had taught me that East Germans (under Soviet rule), were all downtrodden, miserable and half starving. The propaganda had fooled me into a distorted view of another political system. The real truth was "somewhere in the middle" I suspect, with good aspects and bad aspects in both systems. -
I just noticed that on mark 9:29 it says something about 1976 and not the 1960ies.
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Very interesting. Doubt many of them actually reached farmers though.