Sketches show an angry Nikita Khrushchev holding up his shoe at the United Nations, the Soviet hammer and sickle, and a map of the Soviet Union and various men who led to the rise and spread of Communism in Soviet Union. Karl Marx,Friedrich Engels,Vladimir Lenin,Trotsky. Czarist rule in Russia and the prisoners. Lenin,Stalin and Molotov.
Change of leadership in countries like England and Soviet Union during the year 1964. A large crowd of people gather awaiting the results of elections in England. Outgoing Prime Minister Lord Douglas Home receives farewell from 10 Downing Street residence. Newly elected Labor Prime Minister Harold Wilson waves his supporters as he arrives to his new office. Scene changes to Moscow, Russia, Soviet Union, where Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev bids goodbye as he departs from his office with his wife. Khrushchev addresses the meeting of the United Nations Security Council. New Soviet Communist Party leader Nikolai Brezhnev takes oath.
Sketches show Soviet Union leader Joseph Stalin and Premier Vyacheslav Molotov. A sketch showing Stalin's death and a convention of Communist party. A sketch depicts a tombstone with words inscribed “Here lies Yorik Stalin”. Portrait of communist world leaders such as Mao Zedong and Nikita Khrushchev, and the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia.
President Lyndon B Johnson gives a speech at the John Hopkins University (Baltimore, MD 21218, United States) in Baltimore. He talks about U.S. relations with South Vietnam, peace talks and proposes an aid program. He offers to hold diplomatic discussions to end the war in Vietnam. He states the need for an independent South Vietnam. “Such peace demands an independent South Viet-Nam—securely guaranteed and able to shape its own relationships to all others—free from outside interference—tied to no alliance—a military base for no other country.” President Johnson said. The President calls upon South East Asia nations for a co-operative economic drive, and asks the United Nations and nations like the Soviet Union to join in. “For our part I will ask the Congress to join in a billion-dollar American investment in this effort as soon as it is underway. And I would hope that all other industrialized countries, including the Soviet Union, will join in this effort to replace despair with hope, and terror with progress.” President Johnson said. Men working with heavy machinery in a South East Asian industrial plant. View of working men constructing a modern bridge in Vietnam. Vietnamese farmer threshing harvested rice. A doctor examines a Vietnamese man. The crowd applauds the President's speech. Views of Vietnamese people working on farms, in technical and scientific laboratories, and industrialization in Vietnam. A European or American professor teaches a Vietnamese student inside a laboratory. Vietnamese women working inside a textile factory. Vietnamese farmers carrying produce. President Johnson quotes from the book of Deuteronomy in the Bible. “We may well be living in the time foretold many years ago when it was said: “I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live.” Well, we will choose life. In so doing we will prevail over the enemies within man, and over the natural enemies of all mankind.” President Johnson concludes his speech.
Russian cosmonaut Alexey Arkhipovich Leonov enters space capsule of Voskhod-2 rocket in the Soviet Union. The spacecraft launch as it leaves the launching pad. Animation (only) depicts the activities of the cosmonaut and the co-pilot, and Cosmonaut Leonov on first manned spacewalk with the help of a life line attached to the spacecraft. No actual spacewalk images are shown. Narrator alludes to 1960's "space race" between astronauts of the United States and the Soviet Union, saying, "If this spectacular accomplishment is all that is claimed, Russia has moved ahead of the U.S. once more in the race for the moon."
Formation of Lake Chagan (or Lake Balapan, and sometimes called "Atomic Lake") by the Chagan nuclear test conducted as part of the Soviet Union's Nuclear Explosions for the National Economy program during the Cold War. A wired atomic bomb seen installed at ground level. Infrastructure around the dry bed of the Chagan River. A clock and oscilloscope during countdown. A 140-kiloton nuclear bomb explodes in a 178-metre-deep (584 ft) hole in the dry bed of the Chagan River, creating a crater that would become Lake Chagan. A massive dark cloud from nuclear blast and soil from the dry riverbed. A man walking near the blast crater. Aerial view of the Lake Chagan crater without water. Bulldozers pushing soil to break through the Chagan River. Flood water filling the crater of Lake Chagan as water flows from the Chagan River to Lake Chagan. Scientists in a boat retrieve a sampling device from the water. Female Russian scientists test water samples from Lake Chagan inside a lab. A woman scientist points to waveform on an oscilloscope. A man wearing snorkel gear jumps into Lake Chagan. Aerial view of Lake Chagan.