Opening slate states (in Russian) "Replacement of those who left for the front." Russian boys work in a machine shop during World War 2. One operates a large drill press. A woman tends a lathe. Closeup of a young man using drill press to drill holes in a steel plate. Closeup of a women measuring a piece of metal in a lathe. Another woman turning items on a lathe with cooling lubricant spraying over the cutting point. She removes the finished product and places it on a table with others. A woman using a gauge to check dimensions of a turned piece of metal, possibly for war armament production . A young man consults with a woman at a lathe. Another woman also working at a lathe. A man and two women examining finished products on a table.
Film shows wheat waving in breeze at a huge farm in the Soviet Union during World War 2. View from above of harvesting combines operating in parallel. Closeup of tractor pulling a combine. Closeup of grain flowing into a bin. View through harvesting wheel of the operations. Closeups of farmers atop their machines. View from above of combines at work with grain discharging into a large tractor-pulled wagon. More views of the operation and of grain filling the wagon. Closeup of two farmers examining the wheat grain. Officials sealing large sacks of wheat. View of many sacks piled in front of a building. A tractor pulls numerous flat bed wagons filled with sacks of wheat.
Opening scene shows Soviet people seated aroung a long table. As names are called, individuals step forward and receive small boxes containing medals in recognition of their contributions to the nation during World War 2. Narrator announces their names as they come forward. Uniformed members of the military as well as civilians, receive the awards. Change of scene shows a seated group of army soldiers in uniform, as they listen to an officer speaking enthusiastically to them from a small group in front of them. They stand and applaud. A woman soldier in uniform addresses them. Camera focuses on several women soldiers in the large group. Another soldier also addresses the group. He raises a fist in emphasis as he speaks. The soldier audience stands and applauds.
Opening scene shows Soviet people walking around an open air display containing a German Junkers Ju 88 bomber and various pieces of wreckage. It also includes displays of German bombs of various types (presumably inert). Closeup of the aircraft cockpit cabin and remains of engines. A huge hole in the plane fuselage. Wired panels and wire bundles inside the aircraft. Closeup view downward, of people pressing forward to observe the displays. Soldiers guarding the wreckage. Camera pans across the aircraft, showing the swastika on its tail. View from close to the wreckage shows the people behind barriers. Trams pass in the background, on front of the Bolshoi Theater, with the quadriga atop it (statue of Apollo riding chariot pulled by 4 horses) covered by canvas during repairs from earlier German bombing. Closeup inside the display barriers shows the German bombs. A soldier picks up an incendiary bomb and walks to people in the crowd shaking the device and speaking about it. People gathered at one corner of the display where smaller pieces of the plane are piled up. Another closeup of the airplane tail with swastika on it. View of the Ju 88 from its tail to the front.
Russian pilot shaving his face. Russian pilots lined up at fields are decorated. Shows Russian aircrafts flying.
U.S. Vice President Henry A. Wallace on a journey to China through Soviet Union. An animated portion of a globe shows his next destination. The Vice President lands in Novosivirsk. A signal officer in a jeep gives signal. People on streets and the view of buildings in the city. Vice President visits the Yak fighter plane industry. American fliers and others look at the plane. The plane in flight. The biggest opera house in the world. Wallace addresses the people at a public meeting. He addresses them in Russian language. Civilians applaud. Wallace speaks into a microphone. People seated in a hall and listen to his speech.