A map shows the Eastern front. Hungarian units near Stanislavov in the Soviet Union. Soldiers rest, eat, shave, and clean themselves. Horses and chicken around the soldiers. A train passes by. An officer meets the troops. The officer salutes while seated on a tank. Carpathians: German and Hungarian troops advance. Infantries march on the road. Soldiers on horses. An officer talks to a soldier. German tanks and artillery halt a Russian thrust. Soldiers load and fire artillery. Grenadiers recapture a village. They advance into the village with tanks. Fire and smoke from burning huts. Officers consult a map. A burning truck by the road side. Soldiers on horses carriages. 5th SS Volunteer Strumbrigade Wallonien Colonel Lucien Lippert reviews and decorates troops.
Soviet forces fight against the Nazi German soldiers in the Soviet Union during World War 2. Soviet soldiers in action as artillery is fired. Soviet Katyusha multiple rocket launchers firing at night. A waterfront city under bombardment. Soviet infantry spread out and walking across a field. Soviet soldiers firing mortars. Soviet troops crowded atop an armored personnel carrier. A Soviet T34 tank. Soviet troops raising their flag over a re-captured town. Former residents returning to Soviet towns and cities after the Nazis are driven out. Soviet cavalry on horseback. View of Red Square with antiaircraft guns firing volleys in salute.
A Lend lease U.S. C-47 (military version of Douglas DC-3 aircraft) is seen in sky above a Soviet airfield during World War 2. It lands and taxis past a Soviet Petlyakov Pe-2 bomber, to a parking place. Marshal of Soviet Union, Georgy Zhukov, is seen beside the aircraft along with other senior Soviet military officers. Next, he leads them, walking across a cobblestone path. A factory building is seen in the background. Change of scene shows inside of a large room, with numerous chairs and tables covered with maps. Senior Soviet officers sit at these tables. Camera pans over the scene. General Aleksei Innokentievich Antonov is seen seated at one of the tables. Other Generals and Colonels are seen as the camera moves its focus. Marshal Zhukov presides over the meeting from a table at the front of the room. He is flanked by two other officers. Camera again pans over the assembled group of high ranking officers.
Scenes of funeral services held for Patriarch Sergius of Moscow (born Ivan Nikolayevich Stragorodsky) in the Soviet Union. Russian Orthodox bishops dressed in robes held a procession with the body of Patriarch Sergius of Moscow. A man holds the Russian Orthodox patriarch’s crown during procession. Later Patriarch Sergius’ remains is paraded with a casket. The Russian Orthodox priests and civilians follow the casket which is being taken to the graveyard. The casket is lowered into the grave.
Corpses of mostly Polish victims unearthed in mass graves near Vinnitsa, Ukraine. (Part of the Katyn Massacre by the Soviet Union). Possessions of dead people on a table. Mass graves. Persons mourning for those massacred by the Russians. Men fill soil on graves, with spades.
Actors portraying a scene where Soviet diplomat disembarks from a United States Army Air Force aircraft during World War II. Reporter interviews "His Excellency" on Soviet Union's attitude towards division of Germany. Diplomat answers saying the Allies should control Germany's key industries and take away its economic power to wage war.