- Title: USSR: MILITARY PARADE MARKS 60TH ANNIVERSARY OF RUSSIAN REVOLUTION.
- Date: 7th November 1977
- Summary: 1. GV: band play fanfare as politburo members including Leonid Brezhnev take salute (2 shots) 0.13 2. GV: soldiers standing to attention (2 shots) 0.18 3. GV: band playing in front of giant poster of Lenin. (2 shots) 0.26 4. GV: soldiers marching past (2 shots) 0.40 5. GV: sailors marching past (3 shots) 0.56 6. SV: new tanks toward camera and past. 1.12 7. SV: Brezhnev and others saluting 1.14 8. GV: new surface to air missile launchers driving past 1.28 9. SV PAN: Russian General in jeep driving past. 1.34 10. GV: standard bearing with red flags spread out in circle (2 shots) 1.47 11. SV: Brezhnev waving 1.57 12. GV: marchers waving flags as huge portrait of Lenin is wheeled among their ranks (2 shots) 2.13 13. Marchers formed up into letters. 2.22 14. SV: Brezhnev and others looking on. 2.29 15. GV: marchers spread into different pattern. 2.37 US President Jimmy Carter sent President Brezhnev a telegram congratulating the Soviet people on the 60th anniversary of the Russian Revolution. He said the US would continue to work together with the USSR and other countries for 'international peace and justice'. The telegram said improvement in relations between the two countries could serve the interests of the whole world, in particular as a means of stopping the arms race and restricting the danger of war. Initials RH/0335 Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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- Location: MOSCOW, UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLIC
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- Country: Russia
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