Towers and complex piping and structures rise high above the ground as part of the new concentrated oxygen blast furnace being constructed at a steel plant in Tula Russia,Soviet Union. A prefabricated part is lowered into place by cable from a crane. A train of open rail cars moves through the factory yard. Russian construction experts contracted to build the furnace are seen working on the last part of it. They tighten bolts and weld sections of the furnace.
Persons accused of spying for the Soviet Union are being arraigned before a Royal Commission in Canada. Men seated around a table. Documents kept in front of them on the table. Several other people stand in the background. Men and women testify at their arraignment.. Three legal officers sit at a desk in the office. Several papers kept on the desk. Emma Woikin is seen responding to questions.
Brief view of Josef Stalin and Mikhail Kalinin with Molotov and other revolutionaries observing Russian military parade, about 1925. Tanks roll on to the streets and heavy guns are also displayed at the parade. A completely separate scene, from 1946, shows Soviet Premier, Joseph Stalin and dignitaries strolling into the lobby of the Bolshoi theater, where Winston Churchill, Averell Harriman and Joseph Stalin pose for photographs.
Film opens showing devastated snow-covered remains of Peterhof Palace and its fountains, in Leningrad, after the Russians ended the siege of that city in January, 1944 of World War II. The next scenes show crowds gathered on 25 August, 1946, to celebrate the newly restored fountains, which are seen spraying water again. (Narrator notes that Russians now call the place Petrodvorets, meaning Peter's Palace.) An official speaks, at the ceremony, about the architecture of Petrodvorets and its cultural masterpieces still to be restored. Glimpse of statuary and array of fountains. Closeup of several young women holding flowers. Another shot of the fountains spraying along both sides of a central pond, with spectators crowded along the extreme sides near lines of trees.
May Day celebration in Moscow, Russia. Cut outs of Russian dignitaries on a wall. Troops stand at a square. Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin walks towards a mausoleum. People watch him. He climbs the stairs of mausoleum. He waves to the crowd. Clock on a tower reads10 O'clock. Soldiers stand with horses. Troops stand aligned. Soviet General Georgy Zhukov arrives and salute. Band plays music. Soviet Army, Navy and Air troops march. Officer salutes. Russian aircraft fly over head. People watch the air show.
Russian Ambassador to Czechoslovakia Valerian Zorin in Czechoslovakia. Valerian Zorin addresses the meeting of the Society for Cultural Relations with the USSR. Large posters of Soviet figures Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin hang behind Zorin. The audience listen to Zorin’s speech. Zorin speaks into a microphone. The crowd applauds.