Monthly Archives: May 2011

‘Meet John Doe’ opens in USA

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZEHV1T5B6g

(Saturday, May 3, 1941)Meet John Doe, a comedy drama film directed and produced by Frank Capra and starring Gary Cooper and Barbara Stanwyck, opened today in the U.S. The film is about a “grassroots” political campaign, created unwittingly by a newspaper columnist and pursued by a wealthy businessman.

Machine army shown by Reds


"The World At War: Barbarossa (June – December 1941)" (May Day in Moscow @ 7:48)

(Thursday, May 1, 1941) — Masses of truck-borne infantry and new motorized artillery were star attractions today at Soviet Russia’s traditional May Day parade in Red Square today; and Defence Commissar S. K. Timoshenko told spectators that the Red Army was mobilized against “accidents” and “the tricks of our foreign enemies.”