Nikita Khrushchev seen speaking before the 20th Party Congress in February 1956, where he denounced his legendary predecessor Joseph Stalin. Glimpses of the Yalta Conference in Ukraine during World War II. Joseph Stalin talks with U.S. President Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. Khrushchev and other Communist leaders of various nations arrive at a meeting. The leaders wave hands as troops march during a communist parade.
U.S. President Richard M. Nixon and First Lady Patricia Nixon on a visit to Moscow in Soviet Union. Motorcycle escorts lead the motorcade of President Nixon on the roads of Moscow. Mrs. Pat Nixon steps out of her car and is welcomed by Soviet dignitaries. President Nixon and Pat Nixon walk inside a residence followed by others. They walk out of the residence and sit in their car and drive away. The motorcade of President Nixon on the roads.
U.S. President Richard M. Nixon and First Lady Patricia Nixon in Moscow during their Soviet Union visit. President Nixon and Pat Nixon are welcomed by Russian dignitaries at a ceremony. The President talks to the dignitaries. Soviet Premiere Leonid Brezhnev talks to the dignitaries. Wives of Soviet military officers and dignitaries welcome President Nixon and First Lady Patricia and shake hands with them. A Soviet military officer shakes hands and greets President Nixon. Soviet dignitaries surround President Nixon and talk to him.
U.S. First Lady Pat Nixon at a museum in Moscow. A number of women dignitaries inside the museum. Pat Nixon greets the women and shakes hands with them. Pat Nixon and other dignitaries pose for a photograph.
After credits, opening slate refers to the battle front of the future, battles of the Motherland. Opening action shows a Tupolev SB-2 Katyushka bomber taking off on a grassy field. Momentary glimpse of the nose of a Mig-1 with engine running. Then a stubby Polikarpov I-153 biwing aircraft takes off. Two of them are seen in flight overhead, and then several more. Scene shifts to some captured German prisoners of war being escorted by Soviet armed guards. Troops and more prisoners walk down gang planks from a large flat river barge. A T-26 tank sits overlooking the barge as its occupants depart under guard. Scene shifts to an advanced model T-26 Soviet tank moving across a field. Another is also moving in the background. Other tanks move past the camera, through sand, and past trees. A Soviet BT-5 tank speeds past the camera. Soviet troops firing Quad-mounted PM M1910 Maxim machine guns as antiaircraft weapon. Other antiaircraft weapons firing at a German Bf 109 aircraft in flight overhead. Aerial view of a German Stuka Dive Bomber (Ju-87). Soviet gunners firing a camouflaged 85 mm M1939 (52-K) anti-aircraft gun. A German Bf 109 fighter aircraft turns and makes a gentle dive . Next, a burning aircraft is seen plummeting to earth. A large explosion. Two 85mm antiaircraft gins firing. More German aircraft are seen and another one is shot down. Several early ,model Soviet T-26 light infantry tanks run in formation over sharply rolling hills in what appears to be a testing or demonstration ground. several explosions occur near them as they move. Field artillery firing from concealed positions in woods. A tree is felled by shelling and an explosion nearby raises huge clods of earth. Soviet infantry charge through barbed wire. One soldier carries a mine detector. Soviet troops charge through woods. Several German prisoners of war are taken. Numerous German prisoners seated on the ground in an open field.
Rebuilding operations in Stalingrad after the German attacks on the city in World War II. Russian refugees outside their tents. Children perform calisthenics. Rubble lay on ground. People engaged in reconstruction operations. Students of technical college rebuild a school building. Bricks laid down to reconstruct a building. Wreckage of Nazi planes spread on the ground. Nazi tanks transported on flat railroad cars. Radar indicates a German air attack. A man loads shells in an anti aircraft gun and fires at German planes.