Russian soldiers march. Joseph Stalin waves. A huge crowd gathered during the march. Palatial buildings in rear. A person views a piece of art and decorated cross and vessels displayed in Russian Orthodox Church. A woman holds a child in a public nursery, where other children are in cribs. Women working in various factories and performing heavy labor at construction sites. Women cleaning streets.
Slate states: "Transportation difficulties are solved by Bactrian camels as they withstand the intense cold remarkably well. " Russian Army camel caravan moving supplies through a snow-covered village during the battle of the Caucasus, in World War 1. Later, they are seen moving across deserted field of snow, with partially pine-covered mountain in background.
Italian Expeditionary Forces at Russian Front. A soldier looks through binocular. Barbed fences in snow covered field. Italian soldiers walk on snow covered ground. They rush to prone position on the sound of fire. They also fire. They hide behind a house. Soldiers fire from window. Dead body lie in field. Trains arrive. Soldiers stand aligned. Tires unloaded from train. Trucks go. Troops march on road. General Giovanni Messe, Commander in Chief of the Expeditionary forces, arrives to inspect repair shops behind the front lines. Messe present medals to soldiers. A cart goes on mud filled road. Soldiers work on poles. Troops with rifles walk. Soldiers nail wood logs. They reinforce bridge. Vehicles pass on mud road. Wood logs lay on ground. Soldiers build wood road. Vehicle pass on new road. Soldiers push truck on rail tracks. (World War II period).
Opening scene shows Russian Medical Corpsmen, dressed in white, at an outdoor rail yard where many trains are parked on many tracks. they remove a wounded soldier from a train on a stretcher. the roll him onto a waist-high table, where regular soldiers pose near him. Another wounded soldier on a litter, on the ground, is attended by two medical corpsmen, who bend down to speak to him. View of one Corpsman squatting down next to him and speaking to him. The wounded man moves his arms while conversing with the Corpsmen. Brief view of workmen at a construction site near a railroad line. Using wheel barrows, The workmen off load building materials from a rail car parked in the background, pushing the wheel barrows over planks laid on the ground. A mixed group of Russian military officers posing on a pier. Heavy timbers crossed by steel railroad rails separate the camera from the group.
German troops fell trees at the Russian Front during World War II. Wood is being processed into lumber. Cylindrical shaped tent is built by framing round wooden arches with trap doors and wooden logs. Tent is carried to German post by horse carriages. Tents barricaded beneath the ground with their chimneys protruding out of the surface. Shows smoke coming out of the tent's chimney.1944.
German infantry advances through a field on the Eastern front. German Marder III H Panzerjaeger tank destroyers fire at targets. Scenes of smoking targets and destroyed tanks. (World War II period).