“I Love My Land (Tribute to Women)” is a Soviet film documenting the lives of Soviet women in the latter half of the 20th century. The Soviet Union provided equal opportunities for women in work and education, and women were given equal pay for equal work.
This film presents several short profiles of Soviet women workers, including a volcanologist, a Kazakh farmer, a Russian car test driver, a chair of the Uzbekistan Trade Union Council and member of the Supreme Soviet, and more.
On the Soviet Film Project: At the end of 2008, various comrades regained possession of a cache of films that used to be the film library of the Berkeley, CA branch of the Soviet-American Friendship Society. The collection consists of about 300 films on a variety of topics. They are in Russian with English subtitles, and represent the Soviet Union speaking of itself, in its own voice.
The U. S. Friends of the Soviet People (USFSP) agreed to take possession of these films in 2009, and raise the funds and perform the work to digitize the collection, and to distribute its contents both via recorded media (like DVDs) and via the Internet.
Today, with the funds we have raised, we have finally been able to begin publishing these digitized films. If you would like to support us in continuing to digitize more films, please make a donation to USFSP here. We do this not to profit from the work, but to preserve the memory of the USSR and its many achievements, and to pass that memory on to future generations.
