Russian newsreel shows views of newly completed hydroelectric station in Mingechaur, Azerbaijan, Soviet Union. Soviet officials and citizens celebrating the completion of hydroelectric station. Train adorned with ribbons and wreath crosses a newly completed bridge.
Berlin Airlift operations at Templehof Airfield during Berlin Blockade by the Soviet Union, as supplies are being brought from all over with roadways blocked by Russians. U.S. Air Force plane landing at Tempelhof Airfield in Berlin and a Berliner showing newspaper to two U.S. Air Force pilots. Crowd massed up outside a building. Pilot in flight talking into radio and airmen on ground responding. An aircraft with cargo crashes and firemen trying to put off fire. Aircraft operations going at ground and in air. Crowd walking at Tempelhof Airfield. Aircraft takes off.
An announcement by President Harry Truman in the United States. Men read newspapers at news stands announcing nuclear tests conducted by the Soviet Union, proving that Russia has nuclear weapons. President Truman announces that Russia possesses an atomic bomb. A meeting of the United Nations delegates in New York after the announcement. Soviet official Andrei Y. Vishinsky exits a car at the UN and refuses comment to reporters regarding the nuclear testing. Other men greet him. United Nations officials seated inside UN building. President of the UN General Assembly Carlos Peña Romulo addresses the officials and states that the United Nations and the world now must strive harder for atomic controls.
Men reading various newspapers (mostly from New York) in the United States. Views of several newspaper headlines such as 'Truman says Russia set of Atomic blast' after President Truman revealed to the American public that the Soviet Union had successfully detonated an atomic bomb in a weapons test. Traffic on a road. Man in 1940's suit and hat standing on a street reading a newspaper. (World War II period).
A huge gathering at Green Park, Moscow. Paul Robeson an American African American singer entertains and sings national songs in Russian and English. 1949.
A Soviet horticulturist conducts outdoor classes demonstrating how to prepare small sapling fruit trees for planting. His audience is a group of villagers in the Georgia, USSR. Trees in full flowering bloom are seen in background. The scene shifts to Tajikistan, USSR, where men work with pickaxes preparing irrigation channels and planting trees in a vast, otherwise barren region. Farmers carry sapling trees to the project and plant them in the bottom of a deep (dry) irrigation channel.