Embalming laboratory in Moscow, Russia. A technician works with chemicals. Scene changes to funeral of General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin in Moscow, Russia, Soviet Union. Embalmed body of Joseph Stalin, Lying in State. Mourners gathered to pay homage to Joseph Stalin. Women weep. A large crowd of civilians gathered at Red Square. Men carry Stalin's body in a coffin to Lenin's Tomb, where it lies, next to the body of Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars Vladimir Llyich Lenin, preserved in the tomb. Views from years prior of Joseph Stalin descending stairs and leaving after visiting tomb of Vladimir Lenin. Brief scenes of a Soviet chemical laboratory with many vials, flask, and beakers, and a scientist or chemist at work in the lab. Scenes of Soviet citizens waiting in line to file into the tombs of Lenin and Stalin.
President Dwight D Eisenhower meets United States diplomats at the White House. The President along with Secretary of State John Dulles talk to the newly confirmed Ambassador to the Soviet Union, Charles” Chip” E. Bohlen. Cameraman taking a video. Ambassador Charles Bohlen and President Eisenhower shakes hands before Ambassador Bohlen departs the White House. President Eisenhower meets the first female Ambassador to Italy, Clare Boothe Luce. Ambassador Luce departs.
May Day Parade in Red Square of Moscow. Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin, Soviet politician Georgi Malenkov, Soviet Commissariat for Internal Affairs (NKVD) Lavrentiy Beria, President of Soviet Union Nikolai Shvernik, Marshal Semen Budenny, and Lieutenant-General Dimitar Nikolov Popov review the May Day Parade. Signs and banners held by a crowd. A large crowd marching.
New Soviet leadership appears in public, following Stalin's death, in 1953. Russian Officers and troops in formation on Red Square in Moscow. Quick view of people assembled , in the evening, outside UN headquarters in New York. at sunset. View of Spasskaya Tower of Kremlin in Moscow. New Soviet Defense Minister, Bulganin, stands in open automobile, and salutes, as it moves along Red Square where Soviet troops line the way in formation. Huge sign with images of Lenin and Stalin displayed behind troop formation.Quick overview of Moscow, from a height. View of troops in massed formation seen from a height above Red Square. Civilian spectators in organized groups, dressed warmly against the cold. Top Soviet leaders emerge from inside the Kremlin to take their place in the reviewing balcony. Spectators applaud. Leaders including Nikita Khrushchev and Georgi Malenkov. Spasskaya Tower clock strikes. Bulganin is joined by a Soviet military Marshal, also standing in an open car. They drive about, reviewing the troops from the open cars. The cars stop and Bulganin and the Army Marshal get out. Defense Minister Bulganin, in military uniform of a Marshal, climbs to the Kremlin balcony and gives a speech. Cannons fire salutes.Sound track plays national anthem. Armored vehicles and troops fill a broad boulevard. Soviet armed forces put on a grand parade. Soviet leaders salute. Lavrentiy Beria stands to Bulganin's right and to his left, Malenkov and, his far left, Krushchev.
A huge crowd of Soviet people assembled, on an outdoor train station platform, wave in greeting to friends and relatives arriving on a Russian passenger train. Some grasp hands of passengers and others present flowers to them through the train windows, before they leave the train. As some passengers step from the train a photographer takes pictures. A sick (or injured) passenger is carried from the train. There are no signs indicating the name of the station or location..
May Day Parade in Moscow. Officer speaks to assembled troops. Russian troops and sailors march on streets. Tanks, armored vehicles and artillery move past. Huge crowd gathered to watch the parade. Officials and dignitaries watch from review stand. People waive. Premier Nikita Khrushchev waives with his hat to the crowd.