Kyiv (Kiev) does not surrender

Kyiv (Kiev) does not surrender 

Kyiv (Kiev) does not surrender 

Women with shovels, working, men erecting barricades and makeshift fortifications. VS of soldiers working. A newspaper headline reads:"The Fascists shall not be allowed to take the capital of Soviet Ukraine. Everything for the defense of our home, of all we love" A sign (possibly at a movie theater) reads"Showing: Reports from the Front of the Patriotic Wa". People stand in street, looking at the sky. German planes. Soviet guns aimed at the sky. Another intertitle reads"Helios Pavlovich Mykhailyuk: a participant in the defense of Kie". Street life. It would seem that this footage was intended to show that life goes on in Kiev even in the middle of war: there is a advertisements for the circus, for the theater (the signs are in Russian, Ukrainian, and Yiddish). One of the circus advertisements reads:"Soon: The opening of the winter season of the Kiev State Circus, 4 Sept. 194", indicating that this footage was probably taken during the autumn of 1941. People walk about the park, two elderly Jews on a bench converse, a young couple on another bench talks, children in a playground go down a slide and frolic, dance in a circle. Elderly peasant woman walking. Testimony of survivors of Babi Yar. Translation of Ukrainian narration, with Russian spoken by the witnesses: [The narration begins with a story about Hitler's plan concerning Kiev.] According to his plan Kiev had to be seized in three weeks after the outbreak of war. On July 15th Hitler planned to have a military parade in the city, and many guests were invited. The voice of a witness (Mykhailyuk - a Red Army soldier, Kiev defender):"During one of the attacks on the city a German plane dropped a sack.." [Story stops here] [Narration proceeds.] During the prewar years the Soviet propaganda kept silent on Nazi anti-Semitism. Why did they keep it a secret during the war? They [the Soviet officials] didn't say that the fascists' paths were measured by Jews' blood, but by kilometers. Perhaps it happened because both Stalin and Hitler had the same opinion of Jews. [Narration is interrupted by a woman's voice (Galyna Matviivna Motuzova)],"We had no idea.." [Narration proceeds.] The city was doomed, but Stalin refused to listen to anyone who would offer to surrender.