Ice melting and water flowing as Spring comes to Leningrad following winter siege by Germany in World War 2. Crosses from Nazi graves wash away into streams. Convoy trucks continue to drive on the melting ice of Lake Ladoga. Group of children in Leningrad enjoy a walk outside. A child rides a tricycle. A woman washes windows of a trolley. Point of view (POV) shot of driving trolley in Leningrad, showing controls. People board trolley. Soviet women soldiers from Army and women sailors from women's Navy corps walking. Wide shot of Leningrad with trolley running. Dancers from the famous ballet theater board a Soviet battleship. Dancers perform traditional dances while sailors play violin and other instruments. Sailors watch as dancers leave ship in small boat. Woman spits on German prisoners of war POWs as they are marched through the streets of Leningrad. Soviet citizen soldiers or militia march in procession holding rifles with fixed bayonet.
German Heinkel He 111 bombers strike Russian positions near Gomel, Soviet Union during World War 2. German bombers in flight. Pilots in the cockpit of the aircraft. Bombs being dropped. The bombs hit Russian positions and billows of smoke rise up. Explosions occur and smoke rises. The bombs are released from the bombers and hit the targets. Pillars of smoke rise up. The bombers in flight.
The Soviet Army parades past the Moscow Kremlin in Moscow, Soviet Union. High ranking Soviet Army officers talk to each other during the parade. Swatter missiles loaded onto BRDM-1 trucks move past a huge poster of Lenin at the Moscow Kremlin. Trucks with Goa and Guideline missiles on them at the parade. Trucks with Griffon missiles enclosed in containers. Tracked vehicles with Frog-4 missiles on them.
The Soviet Army parades past the Moscow Kremlin in Moscow, Soviet Union. A BMP-1 (Boyevaya Mashina Pekhoty), an Armored Personnel Vehicle, with soldiers loaded on it moves past a large crowd at the Kremlin. Soviet assault gun or tank destroyer ASU-8Js pass in review at the parade. Soviet tanks T-62 at the parade with buildings at Red Square in the background. Soviet tracked anti aircraft weapon system ZSU-23-rolls past the crowd at the Kremlin.
The Soviet Army parades past the Kremlin in Moscow, Soviet Union. Trucks with Guild missiles on trailers. Trucks with Griffon missiles on trailers as they pass in review at the parade. Galosh missiles enclosed in containers loaded on trucks at the parade. Tracked vehicles with Frog-4 missiles and Scud missiles at the parade. Transporters with Scud-B missiles loaded on it. Tracked vehicles with missile containers on trailers at the parade.
After credits, opening slate refers to the battle front of the future, battles of the Motherland. Opening action shows a Tupolev SB-2 Katyushka bomber taking off on a grassy field. Momentary glimpse of the nose of a Mig-1 with engine running. Then a stubby Polikarpov I-153 biwing aircraft takes off. Two of them are seen in flight overhead, and then several more. Scene shifts to some captured German prisoners of war being escorted by Soviet armed guards. Troops and more prisoners walk down gang planks from a large flat river barge. A T-26 tank sits overlooking the barge as its occupants depart under guard. Scene shifts to an advanced model T-26 Soviet tank moving across a field. Another is also moving in the background. Other tanks move past the camera, through sand, and past trees. A Soviet BT-5 tank speeds past the camera. Soviet troops firing Quad-mounted PM M1910 Maxim machine guns as antiaircraft weapon. Other antiaircraft weapons firing at a German Bf 109 aircraft in flight overhead. Aerial view of a German Stuka Dive Bomber (Ju-87). Soviet gunners firing a camouflaged 85 mm M1939 (52-K) anti-aircraft gun. A German Bf 109 fighter aircraft turns and makes a gentle dive . Next, a burning aircraft is seen plummeting to earth. A large explosion. Two 85mm antiaircraft gins firing. More German aircraft are seen and another one is shot down. Several early ,model Soviet T-26 light infantry tanks run in formation over sharply rolling hills in what appears to be a testing or demonstration ground. several explosions occur near them as they move. Field artillery firing from concealed positions in woods. A tree is felled by shelling and an explosion nearby raises huge clods of earth. Soviet infantry charge through barbed wire. One soldier carries a mine detector. Soviet troops charge through woods. Several German prisoners of war are taken. Numerous German prisoners seated on the ground in an open field.