A Hungarian elderly refugee woman shopping at a supermarket in the United States. Elderly woman shopping at grocery store picks up packed meat in the meat section. Woman places various fruits in her shopping cart. A Hungarian refugee family spends time together in a living room. A woman shows a newspaper to a man. A man watches his nieces playing together on the floor. Elderly man talks to a woman. Man smokes a cigarette. “The end” closing slate.
Title card "Communist Blueprint for Conquest" State Department Foreign Service officer and Soviet and East European affairs specialist Boris Hansen Klosson gives an overview of the recruitment methods utilized by communists during the Cold War. He notes that the communists have "given new meaning to totalitarian rule." Animation depicting the communist symbol superimposed over, a church, government building, factory and school which represents the “spiritual”, “political”, “economic” and “cultural” aspects of society. “What cannot be controlled must be undermined and destroyed” Boris H. Klosson says. Animation depicts working class communists mobilizing under a leader and working underground. A moving analog clock is superimposed on the animation.
United States Cold War anti-communist propaganda film. Slate reads “IDEOLOGY”. A cartoon depicting a large hand clenching into a fist- symbol of communist threat. The large communist fist wrecking buildings of institutions such as churches and government. The communist fist hits a scared working-class man with a wooden stick. A communist book with words such as “Enemy”, “Line of Attack”, “Direct Reserves” and “Distribution of force” written over it.
State Department Foreign Service officer and Soviet and East European affairs specialist Boris Hansen Klosson narrates Cold War propaganda film. Slate reads “LEADERSHIP”. A cartoon of men standing beside flags with communist symbols. “Spurred on by the prospects of acquiring unchecked power, these men shun compromise and conciliation” Boris H. Klosson says. A cartoon of a communist pushing down a pillar with labels such as “National Loyalty”, “Emotional Ties” and “Human Ties”. The pillar breaks down into pieces. Another cartoon shows a man holding a flag with the Communist symbol and word “LEADERSHIP”.
State Department Foreign Service officer and Soviet and East European affairs specialist Boris Hansen Klosson narrates. Slate reads “ARMED FORCE”. Cartoon of communist soldiers marching and standing at attention. A menacing politician sitting behind a desk. A shadow of a soldier and poster of the communist symbol is seen behind the politician. More shadows of soldiers are seen behind the communist politician. A frightened man being choked. A man holding a flag with the Communist symbol and word “LEADERSHIP”. Animation depicts working class communists mobilizing under a leader and working underground. “The communists have been quick to exploit these unsettled conditions- seeking to arouse popular discontent, what has existed before, and then to inflame the resentment…” Boris H. Klosson says.
State Department Foreign Service officer and Soviet and East European affairs specialist Boris Hansen Klosson narrates the recruitment methods utilized by communists during the Cold War. Boris H. Klosson sits behind a desk inside his office. A diagram depicts the political stakeholders and institutions of a country. The “Communists” are marked in black. Leftist political parties such as Agrarian, Nationalist, Liberal, Socialist and Communist are marked with a box. Boris H. Klosson speaks to the audience beside the diagram. Two ballots named “Ballot Party of the Left” and “Ballot Party of the Center” are combined into one ballot called “Ballot National Unity Front”. A cartoon Communist man holds on to the ballot paper as it falls into a ballot box. Shadow of troops obscure diagram. Diagram shows how communist influence in national government and local government affect the freedom of various stakeholders such as businesses and the police force. Cartoon shows how communists divide lands for landowners in order to neutralize them as a political force. Factories are combined under “Nationalization”. A Communist Ministry of the Interior holds the “Federal Police Force” on a chain. Cartoon thugs stand as Factory Guards outside industries. “Having control of the Ministry of Information meant that the Communists were in a position to interfere with the efforts of other parties to reach the population.” Boris H. Klosson said.