A soviet sailor places diving helmet on head of a Soviet diver who descends into water for a recovery operation in World War 2. Next, the engine of a wrecked German warplane is seen being raised from the river by a cable being pulled by numerous Soviet soldiers on a steep hillside, besides the water, Scene shifts away from shoreline to a pier jutting into the river, The pier contains a diving board and a tower (perhaps for lifeguards). Soviet military men are standing on the pier, observing the recovery efforts. Some are in Naval uniforms with White hats. The soldiers on the hillside pull on cables fastened to the aircraft wreckage and pull it ashore. View of the wreckage, piled up atop the steep bank overlooking the river. Closeup of the aircraft instrument panels.Two Soviet soldiers examine wing sections that appear to be from a German Junkers 88 (Ju 88) bomber. Soviet officers retrieve personal items that belonged to the German flyers, including: two small religious medallions; an iron cross medal; and a Narvik Shield (German: Narvikschild) medal. More closeups of the wreckage atop the river bank.
DC-3 aircraft taxis in after landing in Moscow, Russia, during World War 2. . Czech and Yugoslav diplomats descend from the aircraft and are greeted by Soviet officials. The diplomats are there to present their credentials as permanent emissaries to the soviet Union. After greeting one another the group of Czech and Yugoslav representatives and their Soviet hosts depart the airfield in automobiles.
Camera pans over several homes with thatched roofs in rural village during World War 2. An older man shouldering an old-fashion rifle stands guard over the area. Scene shifts to field of grain. Another older man stands guard atop an elevated wooden lookout post. A team of horses pulls a wagon loaded with many women and youth farm workers. Another view of the first elderly armed guard, as he looks skyward. A Tupolev Tu-2 bomber is seen in flight. The guard watches as it passes overhead. Scene shifts to a tractor pulliing a reaper combine with several men working on it in a field. Closeup of threshed wheat grains. View from above of the grain being harvested.
Soviet Home Guard Cossack Cavalry are seen mounted up to train during World War 2. They ride past a fence where several rural people wave to them, including one old woman. A Cossack contingent in Papaha (black Cossack hats) is put through their paces by their commander. He directs one of his troop to charge on horseback, brandishing his sword. The Cossack charges along a path lined with a series wooden stakes. He swings his saber to cut the successive stakes while galloping through the course. Closeup of one typically cut clean through. In final scenes, the entire Cossack troop charges in formation
Soviet officers and soldiers review map in woods and then disburse and man various military vehicles in World War II. A crew occupies a Soviet T-38 tank that starts moving toward the camera. A Soviet BA-10M heavy armored car moves past the camera. Two Soviet soldiers together lift a bomb and secure it under the wing of a fighter bomber airplane. Another T-38 tank passes the camera. A formation of Tupolev ANT-40(SB) bombers in flight overhead. Soviet infantry marching through fields. Mounted Soviet cavalry passing the camera. A truck pulling an open trailer carrying Soviet soldiers. Several camouflaged truckloads of soldiers, each pulling a 76 mm divisional gun M1902. Soviet artillerymen firing guns from woods. Shells exploding nearby. A 152mm gun firing. A line of shells exploding across the field of view in the distance. A T-38 tank passes a burning building. Soviet infantry advance across a field. A wrecked German 8-ton half-track Sd-Kfz personnel carrier. Skull image painted on German vehicles, including a wrecked motorcycle. Glimpse of dead German soldier on the ground. Closeups of German soldier prisoners of war. More views of abandoned and wrecked German weapons.
Soviet Russian Polikarpov I-16 (type5) fighter airplanes parked on a flight line. Engines are started and running on several of them. Next, the 12in triple gun turret of the Soviet Gangut class battleship, Parizhskaya Kommuna dominates a front view of the ship. This Dreadnought battleship (formerly the Sevastopol) was updated in 1928 and deployed in the Black Sea Fleet. Next, a huge open field is seen, filled with Soviet T-26 tanks raising dust as they move in formation. Scene shifts to an industrial steel plant, where a Soviet steel worker looks into a blast furnace peep hole to assess the state of the process. He phones others to tell them it is ready to be tapped. View of steel workers, in protective clothing, pulling the furnace plug. Molten steel flows from the furnace through open channels in the floor. Initially, slag floats atop the molten steel. View from an elevated platform in the steel plant, as the molten steel making its way along the floor of the plant. Workers shield their faces from the heat as they observe the flowing steel. Closeup of individual steel workers conversing. Molten steel cascading down to a lower level in the plant into containers (unseen). View shifts to outside the plant where several steel-carrying rail car crucibles comprise a railroad train that is moved away from the plant by a locomotive.
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