Long live the Soviet women (1947)

Ceremony at the Estonia Theatre dedicated to the International Women's Day.

The stage of the theatre hall has been decorated with a huge double portrait of Lenin and Stalin, flags and slogans. The presidium is sitting on the stage. The hall is full of mainly women. Juliana Teiman, head of the female worker's department of the Central Committee of the Estonian Communist Party and the deputy of the Supreme Council of USSR, holds a speech where she emphasizes front-rank women working in various professions. The camera shows Fatinia Voolmäe, spinner at Baltic Manufacturing Company, in the knitting department; Ekaterina Urgart, worker at "Volta" factory, refining the body of an electric engine; poet Debora Vaarandi reading a manuscript; railway worker Salme Pello on the railroad; Olga Lauristin, Minister of Social Security of Estonian SSR in her office; weaver Helene Sillat working on the loom. Teiman finishes her speech with the greeting words for Jossif Stalin, the one giving inspiration to Soviet women. The participants applauding.

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