Film opens showing heavy artillery firing at nighttime. Marshal of the Soviet Union, and Chief of the Soviet General Staff, Aleksandr Mikhaylovich Vasilevsky, is seen alone in a room, reviewing a map. He uses a pair of dividers to make a measurement. Next, antiaircraft guns fire at night, as many searchlights point up in the night sky. A view of the Kremlin. A formation of Cossack cavalry crossing a bridge in winter. Snow on the bridge and surrounding area. A formation of soviet troops,dressed in cold weather gear, marches single-file across snow and ice. Soviet Army tractors towing 152mm howitzer field guns on a snowy road. A contingent of Soviet soldiers, in white helmets, marching toward the front, in the snow, followed by some horse-drawn equipment on sleighs or sleds. Artillery tractor towing a 152mm howitzer field gun. Open trucks carrying Soviet solders. More views of Soviet troops headed to the front, in the snow, passing residential buildings on the way. Soviet soldier looking through binoculars as German Junkers 88 bombers fly overhead. Soviet gunners employing several different types of antiaircraft guns. A Soviet armored car moving across the snow, and a tank destroyer moving near woods. A downed German bomber with dead crew member lying in the snow, nearby. Soviet pilots on a flight line looking over their orders. A line of fighter planes is parked on the snow in the background, including Lavochkin-Gorbunov-Gudkov LaGG-3 and other aircraft. Soviet airman in gunner's canopy on a bomber. Bombs being loaded and fused aboard Soviet bomber. Machine gun belt ammunition being loaded on an Ilyushin IL 4 aircraft. A flight line of IL 4 bombers parked in the snow. Two Soviet Petlyakov Pe-2 dive bombers in formation. Bombs falling through the air and exploding on snowy targets below. More Pe-2 bombers and bombs falling. View from underneath an artillery spotters balloon as it is retrieved by Soviet soldiers. Views of various pieces of Soviet artillery in the snow. Slate announces "December 6, 1941, Moscow strikes back!" (during Battle of Moscow in World War II). Various views of Soviet artillery being fired and shells exploding. Glimpse of the artillery spotter and balloon. A soldier lying frozen in the snow. Countless scenes of all kinds of Soviet artillery firing from various places interspersed with views of mounted Cossacks moving along a snowy trail in a wooded area. Soviet troops heading to tanks and other armor, hidden in the woods. They climb aboard them. Senior Soviet officers confer in the field. Air crews boarding IL 4 bomber aircraft and starting engines. Bombs exploding. Tanks moving. (One knocks down a tree.) The bombers taking off. Soviet soldiers watching.
Polish Prime Minister Joseph Cyrankiewicz in Russia. Polish Prime Minister Joseph Cyrankiewicz and Minister of Industry Hilary Minc are received by Soviet Union leader Joseph Stalin and Premier Vyacheslav Molotov in the Kremlin. They pose for photographs at the reception. Polish Prime Minister arrives by a car at the railway station. Premier Vyacheslav Molotov and Deputy Minister of foreign affairs Andrei Vyshinkii see Polish delegation off. Russian troops lined on side. Joseph Cyrankiewicz delivers speech reaffirming Polish-Soviet relations. Dignitaries in the background. Polish Prime Minister Joseph Cyrankiewicz boards a train.
The Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin in Moscow, Soviet Union. The Red Square of Moscow. Premier Stalin delivering a speech. Pedestrians walk along sidewalk. Various buildings in view.
Atomic bomb detonations at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in the Kazakh SSR, Soviet Union, during Cold War. Nuclear weapon detonation wipes out nearby buildings. A mushroom cloud forms on top of tall pillar of smoke. Debris strikes everywhere, destroying infrastructure. Mushroom cloud with red smoke. Trees are snapped and fall from blast wave of nuclear bomb detonation. Debris strikes everywhere. Devastated trees in aftermath of atom bomb detonation. Overturned Russian tanks, destroyed buildings and infrastructure after atom bomb test.
A motorcycle race in a Moscow countryside. Soviet men and women participate in a motorbike race. The motorcycles race in rough dirt terrain. The winners pose after the race.
The Moscow Kremlin and Moskva River in Moscow. The Vodovzvodnaya Tower on the southwestern side of the Kremlin at the banks of the Moskva River. Columns of men marching along a street in Moscow. The Red Square of Moscow showing Saint Basil's Cathedral and Spasskaya Tower. Hats displayed in a shop window. The Bolshoi Theater in Moscow. A female soldier proudly holds up a flag. The Soviet sailors march along the street.
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