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
Opening of film shows image of famous statue being projected on a screen. The statue depicts a Soviet worker and a collective farm woman, respectively, raising a hammer and sickle high above their heads. The statue is a stainless steel art work created by Vera Mukhinafor the 1937 World's Fair in Paris, France. (It was later moved to Moscow, Russia.) Next a field and forest is shown on the Western front of the Soviet Union (Eastern Front of World War 2, in Europe). Soviet soldiers are preparing for combat during a temporary lull in their defense against German forces in their Operation Barbarossa offensive ,begun in June, 1941. Soviet soldiers place branches and foliage upon a BT tank as camouflage. Others assemble loose ammunition rounds into machine gun belts. Soldiers camouflaging an artillery field piece with foliage. Soviet soldiers refueling a tank. Soldiers moving through wooded area past another camouflaged gun. Several Soviet soldiers at a shelter in the woods, placing ammunition rounds in a clip. A printer producing a daily newspaper for soldiers. A soviet soldier picks one up to read. Closeup of the newspaper. Soviet munitions handlers inserting fuses into noses of artillery shells. A T-34 tank sitting in foliage. Soldiers looking at charts as they sit in the woods. A Soviet soldier running (possibly to deliver a dispatch).
Soviet farmers are seen harvesting grain in a field, during World War 2. Closeup of men and women operating a tractor pulled paddle-style harvester. They leave sheaves of cut grain behind as they continue harvesting. Closeup of men and women gathering the sheaves with pitch forks and loading them onto wagons. A line of horse-drawn wagons, loaded with sheaves, moves along the edge of the field. Closeup of a wheat field. View of tractor pulling a harvesting combine as it cuts wheat. Closeup of reaper blades.Closeup of Soviet farmer in the combine. He wears several medals on his work jacket. View from behind two farmers in the combine. Threshed wheat being discharged from the combine. Farmer catches some in his hands. Farmers stand knee-deep in threshed wheat in a truck next to the combine.
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