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1948 - USSR, Funeral of Zhdanov] (Died 31Aug48)
Crowds in square.  Communist Party VIPs  (named on sound track) w/ Molotov, Beria, Malenkov walk past on railroad station platform.
07:04:18  Train decorated w/ picture & flags arrives & coffin carried from train.  Funeral cortege from railway station, CUs watching people.  Coffin on gun carriage, VIPs walking behind leaving station, thru streets. 
07:06:37  Lying in State - VIP mourners standing at solemn attention, people file past in background; filing into building at night.  Family mourners; Stalin & Malenkov.   
07:08:52  (edit)  Stalin, Molotov & others carry coffin out & onto caisson; follow thru streets.
07:09:47  Top shots Red Square procession; procession entering w/ huge wreaths carried - portraits of Zhdanov.  Stalin onto podium above Lenin’s tomb w/ members of Politburo.  Zhdanov in open coffin.
07:10:44  Speech made by Molotov, SOF in Russian.  Top shot crowd in Red Square; MS crowd. (edit?)
07:11:42  Coffin carried to cemetery.  Gun salute -  burial.  
07:12:29  Military parade / march past, Stalin takes salute from podium , pan Politburo - marching bands, troops.
07:14:16  Picture of Zdanov beside wreaths w/ honor guard.
Post-WWII Russia / USSR; Post-WW2;  Ceremony; Communism; Aug48;
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