A frozen river in Kiev, Soviet Russia. Two children skating on the ice. Hills partially covered with snow in the background. A house on top of a hill. Vegetation near the frozen river. A child lies down on the ice. One child stands on the river. Both lie down on the ice. Children fishing.
A farm and farm activities in Kiev, Soviet Russia during winter time. People stand with horse wagons on grounds of a farm covered in snow. Many sleds and horse drawn sleds are seen. Russian men lead a cow. A man leads a group of cows. The cows at a watering trough. A woman draws water from a well. Horses carry a hay wagon across a farm. A woman feeds chickens in a farmyard. Horses harnessed and a farmer pitching hay onto wagon. A farm accounting office. Interior of an accounting office on farm. Accountants seated on a desk. An accountant talks to a woman. He looks at a book kept on his desk. The book-keeper figures out a sum on abacus as a farm woman named Luda Volkhova looks on. A tractor repair shop. Men work in it on motors. Men working on tractor engine in a farm repair shop. Men using sledge on tractor cart and links driven into tractor treads. People ascend hill towards a building.
Monument to Prince Volodymyr (Volodymyrs'kyi descent, 6, Kyiv, Ukraine, 02000) in Kiev, Soviet Russia (present day Ukraine). Coastline in the background. A view of statue and steeple. Several people gathered in courtyard of a Church. A procession passes through the courtyard of the Church. Priest and women in the Church. Women pray in the Church. People watch the priest on the altar. A woman kisses the Cross. The Orthodox priest blesses the congregation.
A newsreel titled 'US-Russia back UN plan for Holy Land' shows European Jewish refugees on board a former American vessel as they reach Haifa Palestine after traveling from a Black Sea port. Writing on ship says "Haganah Ship - Jewish State". Passengers hold up a dead infant for those on the docks to see, a victim of the overcrowded ship conditions. British forces patrol the docks before passenger disembark. Fatigued refugees, including families with small children, disembark from the ship as the injured and sick are carried away on stretchers. Passengers are sprayed with delousing agent powder to control spread of disease. Other passengers seen embarking a ship from dock for transport to Cypress detention camps, rather than facing deportation to Europe. Scene change to United Nations meeting at Lake Success New York. United States delegate, Herschel Johnson, addresses a meeting of General Assembly's Special Committee on Palestine, expressing support for proposed partition of Palestine.
View of a beet Kolkhoz (a collective farm) near Kiev in Russia. Farmers at work. Beet is processed into Sugar. Russian women in a farm. Cotton is picked and unloaded at Commune of Paris cotton Kolkhoz, located in Armenia. Rice is threshed and stacked in North Star Kolkhoz in Turkestan.
Russian-American novelist Ayn Rand at hearings of House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) in the United States. The Russian-American novelist Ayn Rand testifies against communism and speaks what she feels about communist propaganda. The novelist mentions the movie 'Song of Russia' and further says that it's impossible to convey to free people what it's like to live in a totalitarian dictatorship.