# SOVIET NEWSREEL IMPROVEMENT OF EVERYDAY LIFE UNDER SOCIALISM MODERN SOVIET UNION 50474

This Soviet propaganda newsreel (entirely in Russian) attempts to show the progress made in the modern USSR, and the improvement in everyday life, under socialism. The film shows modern buildings, industry, laboratories, schools, power plants and electrification, the oil industry, and more. The film then transitions to speak about exporting socialism to other nations so that they can enjoy similar progress in their societies. If only the on-going threat from the West including the USA, can be reduced or eliminated... Narration: During the years of Soviet rule, thousands of villages in our country have lost their parochial look. Such villages could now be referred to as towns. Cultural oases have appeared in them: clubs, folk theatres, libraries. Of course, there are still some villages without them. (00.36) ‘Put an end to the cultural backwardness of villages!’ A whole army of engineers, architects, and builders are now busy solving this great social task. (00.52) New standard plans are being developed, according to which thousands of new buildings have already been built. (01.06) The cultural equality of villages and cities has not yet been achieved, but undoubtedly it will be. (01.26) On November 14, 1918, a cargo train left Moscow for the West. We can’t say if that train looked like this one. What we know is this: its properly sealed wagons carried a precious cargo, bread and black rusks for the protesting workers of Germany. (02.10) Today more than 600 facilities have…

- Kind: Newsreel
- Genres: News, Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/50474RussianShortFilm7)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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