PROTECT YOURSELF, part 1

Creator: USSR

Description: This Cold War-era Soviet educational film, "Learn to Protect Yourself" (Part 1) shows how to safely decontaminate people, places, and things exposed to radiation. After witnessing a Japanese official and grieving civilians mourn those lost in atomic bomb blasts and a flock of birds rise into the air at an active military parade ground, we see at 00:22 An American B-1 Bomber take off. 00:32 Split screen: B-1 in flight, missile launchers, tanks, soldiers assembled, submarines, sailers in formation, a soldier puts on a gas mask, and machine guns. A woman in a gas mask holds a baby. 01:01 title LEARN TO PROTECT YOURSELF 01:04 Aerial view of a city highway. 01:20 Young Soviet students file into school. 01:33 A Soviet instructor in a classroom reviews the parts of a protective radiation suit and gas masks. 01:53 Text notes the importance of decontaminating weapons, clothing, shoes, personal equipment. 02:01 Building sign indicates an education center 02:09 Soviet soldiers wearing protective radiation suits and gas masks wipe down AK-47 rifles. 02:22 A rag and cleaning swabs are dipped into a cleaning solution and disinfecting an AK-47. 02:54 Men in radiation suits and masks brush themselves and each other with a whisk broom. 03:02 Men in radiation suits wave a geiger counter over comrades in protective suits. 03:30 Men in radiation suits use a whisk broom to brush a line of radiation suits hanging on a wash line. 03:51 Men clean their waterproof boots with whisks brooms and cloth rags. 04:09 Male workers in business suits remove their gas masks. 04:12 Workers dip cloth wipes into a cleaning solution and clean gas masks, nozzles, and airway tube. 04:48 Workers carefully remove their gas mask and shake them clean. 04:59 Workers in suits and rubber gloves wipe down the gloves on their hands and place used cleaning cloth into a glass jar before removing their gloves. 05:08 A man in a radiation suit places used cleaning rags in a hole in the ground and covers it with dirt. 05:18 A man pours a cup of water over a comrade, washing his hands. Another comrade accepts water in his hands and takes a drink. Another uses the water to wash his neck. 05:35 Black screen. 05:36 Close up of the original a Boeing ALCM cruise missile with USAF markings and painted with shark face. The missile is loaded onto a bomber. 05:41 Two F-104 Starfighter jets in flight. 05:44 A B-52 in flight followed by a T-38 trace plane. The B-52 launches the ALCM. 06:03 Black screen. Explosion. 06:04 Photos of dead bodies. 06:06 A soldier in battle gear pats down civilian prisoners. 06:08 A solider in the field. 06:09 Dead bodies in a demolished city street. 06:11 Crying child runs through the street. 06:13 Title card announces that the following scenes depict disinfection of weapons, clothing, shoes, protective equipment in case of combined infection of toxic and bacteriological agents. 06:29 Soviet soldiers in protective radiation suits and gas masks clean their AK-47 rifles. They remove small bottles of liquid solution from a box. Using a cloth wipe, they carefully apply the solution to the weapon. 06:58 A solider clean wipes the receiver and barrel of his AK-47. 07:10 The soldier wipes the rifle with a lubricated cloth. 07:24 A soldier opens a small metal container and removes an anti-chemical packet, two small bottles of solution, soaks a rag with one and squeezes liquid out of the other onto another clean rag. 08:07 The men wipe their boots and suits, legs, chest and back of their head. 08:22 The men remove head covers and gas masks. They dab and wipe clean each other’s clothing. 08:34 A gloved hand places used rags into a hole in the ground. The trash is lit on fire, and dirt shoveled over it.

Complete Record: This Cold War-era Soviet educational film, "Learn to Protect Yourself" (Part 1) shows how to safely decontaminate people, places, and things exposed to radiation. After witnessing a Japanese official and grieving civilians mourn those lost in atomic bomb blasts and a flock of birds rise into the air at an active military parade ground, we see at 00:22 An American B-1 Bomber take off. 00:32 Split screen: B-1 in flight, missile launchers, tanks, soldiers assembled, submarines, sailers in formation, a soldier puts on a gas mask, and machine guns. A woman in a gas mask holds a baby. 01:01 title LEARN TO PROTECT YOURSELF 01:04 Aerial view of a city highway. 01:20 Young Soviet students file into school. 01:33 A Soviet instructor in a classroom reviews the parts of a protective radiation suit and gas masks. 01:53 Text notes the importance of decontaminating weapons, clothing, shoes, personal equipment. 02:01 Building sign indicates an education center 02:09 Soviet soldiers wearing protective radiation suits and gas masks wipe down AK-47 rifles. 02:22 A rag and cleaning swabs are dipped into a cleaning solution and disinfecting an AK-47. 02:54 Men in radiation suits and masks brush themselves and each other with a whisk broom. 03:02 Men in radiation suits wave a geiger counter over comrades in protective suits. 03:30 Men in radiation suits use a whisk broom to brush a line of radiation suits hanging on a wash line. 03:51 Men clean their waterproof boots with whisks brooms and cloth rags. 04:09 Male workers in business suits remove their gas masks. 04:12 Workers dip cloth wipes into a cleaning solution and clean gas masks, nozzles, and airway tube. 04:48 Workers carefully remove their gas mask and shake them clean. 04:59 Workers in suits and rubber gloves wipe down the gloves on their hands and place used cleaning cloth into a glass jar before removing their gloves. 05:08 A man in a radiation suit places used cleaning rags in a hole in the ground and covers it with dirt. 05:18 A man pours a cup of water over a comrade, washing his hands. Another comrade accepts water in his hands and takes a drink. Another uses the water to wash his neck. 05:35 Black screen. 05:36 Close up of the original a Boeing ALCM cruise missile with USAF markings and painted with shark face. The missile is loaded onto a bomber. 05:41 Two F-104 Starfighter jets in flight. 05:44 A B-52 in flight followed by a T-38 trace plane. The B-52 launches the ALCM. 06:03 Black screen. Explosion. 06:04 Photos of dead bodies. 06:06 A soldier in battle gear pats down civilian prisoners. 06:08 A solider in the field. 06:09 Dead bodies in a demolished city street. 06:11 Crying child runs through the street. 06:13 Title card announces that the following scenes depict disinfection of weapons, clothing, shoes, protective equipment in case of combined infection of toxic and bacteriological agents. 06:29 Soviet soldiers in protective radiation suits and gas masks clean their AK-47 rifles. They remove small bottles of liquid solution from a box. Using a cloth wipe, they carefully apply the solution to the weapon. 06:58 A solider clean wipes the receiver and barrel of his AK-47. 07:10 The soldier wipes the rifle with a lubricated cloth. 07:24 A soldier opens a small metal container and removes an anti-chemical packet, two small bottles of solution, soaks a rag with one and squeezes liquid out of the other onto another clean rag. 08:07 The men wipe their boots and suits, legs, chest and back of their head. 08:22 The men remove head covers and gas masks. They dab and wipe clean each other’s clothing. 08:34 A gloved hand places used rags into a hole in the ground. The trash is lit on fire, and dirt shoveled over it.