Postwar living conditions in the People’s Republic of China under the Communist regime of Mao Zedong (Mao Tse-Tung) photographed by Indians visiting the country. The film highlights China's problems of industry, agriculture, and excess population. Advertisements and posters for the Mao Zedong led economic and social plan titled the 'Great Leap Forward' in 1958. Objectives of the plan. Agriculture, industry, and education in China, including brief shot of men, women, and children in classroom, possibly for re-education. Men and women work in factories and plants. A Russian sign reads 'Made in the Soviet Union'. Workers inside a huge automatic automotive plant set up and supplies by the Soviet Union (SU). A steel and iron company rebuilt and enlarged with the aid of Soviet Union. A seamless steel tube mill supplied and erected by the SU. A plant designed, equipped, and built by SU technicians. A bridge over a river. Women work in a high voltage testing laboratory equipped by the East German government. A fully automatic petroleum refinery built by the Japanese. A heavy gilding machine plant started by the Japanese in 1937. Various factories, plants, and industries in China. Rural farmland and irrigation. People work in backyard furnaces, factories, presses, rolling mills and automotive factories. Deserted city streets with few cars. Workers inside an automotive plant. Communist Party of China Chairman Mao Zedong signs a pact with the Premier of the Soviet Union Nikita Khrushchev. Newspaper headlines regarding the disagreements leading to rifts in the China-Soviet relations in 1960. The Soviet Union withdraws technicians and support from China resulting in closure of industries. Statistics highlight China's dropping industrial production in steel, coal, electricity, and petroleum compared to that of USA, Soviet Union, and United Kingdom.
Map of Siberia and environs highlights the Urals, Magnitogors, and Stalinsk ( now Novokuznetsk) in Russia. Camera pans over industrial complex in the city of Stalinsk, Soviet Union, during World War 2. Numerous plants and smoke stacks are seen. Closeup of flaming coke being discharged from a coking furnace. Cooled coke being discharged into a large pile. Interior of a steel mill where workers have just tapped an open hearth furnace, amidst fire and smoke. Fiery molten steel pouring from the furnace. Hot ingots being moved to rolling mills. Russian steel workers controlling the mills. Large long ribbons of steel emerge from the top of a rolling mill. Workers lift them up and place them back into the mill below the roller, this time, which then pulls them away in a second pass, moving away from the camera. Hot ribbon of steel moves in a circular path within a pathway atop a large machine. Men working at machinery with numerous valve handles. Closeup of a steel worker. Change of scene to a mine where a miner tends five drills boring into the ceiling of a mine cavity. He installs a shaft onto one of the drills. Small gauge rail cars transport ore out of the mine. Next, an open air copper mine is seen with Steam shovels digging the ore. A meeting of factory workers with a poster of Joseph Stalin displayed. A speaker extends thanks from Soviet leaders and from Soviet soldiers at the front. Closeups of speakers and listening workers. A woman operating controls to rotate a drum of crushed copper ore and empty it. Workers tending numerous banks of copper ore washing machines.
U.S. Army soldiers guard various supply material in a harbor in Siberia, Soviet Union Russia during World War I (and Russian Civil War time frame). Copper, wool, tin, rubber and wire supply crates are guarded by the soldiers. Wide panning view of a cargo ship that is docked. Buildings in the harbor area. Wrecked Russian ships at the Pacific port, including many aground and in disrepair. A diverse crowd of Russian soldiers and civilians at the pier.
Kuznetsk Metallurgical Works in Siberia, Soviet Union. Soviet workers at Kuznetsk Metallurgical plant. Iron ore being delivered by train and workers perform different tasks.
Map indicating Southern Siberia. Haystacks in fields. Boys working on window repair and two boys, wearing skull caps, reading books. A man removing Russian Orthodox Cross from the top of a church. The former church building with a Soviet Star prominently displayed and large signs in Russian posted on its wall. Group of men and a woman inside a room lined with framed paintings on the walls.
Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin is given a welcome ceremony in Moscow, after he became the first human to voyage into outer space. From a Russian newsreel with English narration, created during the "Space Race" between the United States and the Soviet Union. Yuri Gagarin arrives by an Aeroflot plane (CCCP-757) at a Moscow airfield. Premier of the Soviet Union, Nikita Khrushchev, greets Gagarin. A huge crowd holds pictures and banners of Gagarin and Khrushchev. Gagarin reports to Premier Khrushchev that he has fulfilled his mission and feels well and ready for his next assignment. Gagarin greets his wife, Valentina Gagarina. He moves in a car through crowd filled streets. At a ceremony in the Kremlin Premier Khrushchev and Defense Minister Marshal of the Soviet Union Rodion Malinovsky congratulate Gagarin and award him the title "Hero of the Soviet Union".
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