U.S. Vice President Henry A. Wallace journey to China through Soviet union. A animated portion of a globe shows his next destination. Wallace visits Buryat Mongolian Republic. Wallace being greeted by the members of the Ranch Committee. A short man with a Buryat face is the President of the republic. The American visitors see the cattle. They see a horse. A village band. Buryats men and women play loud music for the Vice President. The round cheeked and round eye children listen to the music. A tall man, head of the locomotive work. The American visitors look at the locomotive.
U.S. Vice President Henry A. Wallace on a journey to China through Soviet union. A animated portion of a globe shows his next destination. The Vice President visits Shushenskoye. The American visitors and Wallace visit Vladimir Lenin's home . Vice President and party aboard a river steamer in Yenisei river and leave for trans Siberian railway. Mountains all around the river.
U.S. Vice President Henry A. Wallace on a journey to China through Soviet Union. An animated portion of a globe shows his next destination. The Vice President lands in Novosivirsk. A signal officer in a military car gives signal. People on streets and the view of buildings in the city. Vice President visits the Yak fighter aircraft factory and industrial area. American fliers and others look at the airplane. The Yak fighter aircraft in flight. Exterior view of the Novosibirsk State Opera and Ballet Theatre, one of the biggest opera house in the world, as a streetcar passes in the foreground. Wallace addresses the people at a public meeting. He speaks to them in Russian language. Civilians applaud. Wallace speaks into a microphone. Russian people seated in a hall and listen to his speech.
U.S. Vice President Henry A. Wallace on a journey to China through Soviet Union. An animated portion of a globe shows his next destination. The Vice President visits Kazakhstan. A man on a horseback. Sheep, camel and cattle graze in the field. Kazakh man uses a pole with a running noose on it to lasso a horse. The people cook donuts. The horsemen smoke American king size cigarettes for the first time. Women make tea in the open. The coal mine industry in Karaganda. Open cut coal pits. Bulldozers scoop of the earth to revile of coal. Tracks being laid and the trains moves into the cut coal pits. The equipment being used in the mines. Wallace speaks to the engineers. The machines and trains being operated by women. They then visit a copper mine also known as Soviet anaconda. A crane picks up the copper.
U.S. Vice President Henry A. Wallace on a journey to China through Soviet Union. An animated portion of a globe shows his next destination. The Vice President visits Tashkent. A building. Turkish people on streets and seated on a bench. Cars on street. People cross the street. The Vice President and U.S. ambassador to Moscow William Averell Harriman arrive for a diplomatic meeting. Mexican ambassador to Moscow. They greet each other. Vice President wears a cap. Vice President and others are seated on a bench as they talk. Wallace talks to a Chinese ambassador. He looks at the cotton field. Two women open the tap and water runs down from the irrigation channel . It flows into the cotton farm. Mexican Ambassador and Wallace look at the wine fruit. The fruits grown by Uzbek farmers. Vice President and others seated as they are entertained by the farmers. The Vice President visits the last city Alma Ata. People, buses and cars on streets. A crew members work on a plane and being introduced. A pilot in a cockpit. The crew turns the propeller. The vice president gets in the plane and U.S. Army Air Forces C-54 Skymaster takes off.
Film opens with a map of Europe showing black-shaded region of the Soviet Union, and pointing out Germany and Finland. Next, are shown moving images of rural buildings on fire in Finland, late in 1939, during the Russo-Finish war (or "Winter War"). (The Narrator comments that Finland's population was only 4 million while that of the soviets was 180 million.) Soviet bombers are seen high in the sky. A lone woman hurries along a street in Helsinki, Finland, past rubble of a bombed building. Smoke rises in the background. Finnish fire fighters man a hose to fight numerous huge fires in Helsinki.Various views of fires blazing in the capital.
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