German and Romanian 17th Army troops employ antiaircraft fire against Soviet air attacks, during their evacuation from the Kuban Bridgehead, on Taman Penninsula. A soldier on a tower raises warning signal flags. A soldier rings a bell. Anti aircraft guns are fired at Soviet aircraft attacking an evacuation point. German and Romanian troops in a trench. A Soviet aircraft flies low. A soldiers looks through binoculars. A Soviet aircraft is hit and pilot parachutes into the Sea of Azov. Barges carrying troops and material cross the Kerch Strait. German and Romanian Stuka aircraft drop bombs on Soviet targets in the Taman Penninsula. (World War II period).
Inauguration ceremony to open railroad link Southward, from Soviet Trans-Siberian Railroad, at Naushki, to Ulaanbaatar in Mongolia and thence to Jining (Tsining), China. Men connecting the two rail lines. They use levers and a screw jack device. Men push a rolling measuring device to check accuracy of rail track width. Mountains in the background. A railway station with pictures of Soviet leaders. A large crowd of local people gathered for the festivities. They carry flags and pictures of Chinese, Mongolian, and Soviet leaders, including Mao Zedong, Dashiin Damba, Voroshilov, Lenin, and Stalin. A large reviewing stand holding several dignitaries, and displaying pictures of Dashiin Damba, Voroshilov, and Mao. Several Soviet officers were seen. Chinese and Soviet spokesmen make short speeches, after which the Chinese spokesman cuts a ribbon to officially open the railroad link Behind him, in the background, is seen a map of the railroad connection going South, from the Soviet Union, toward Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. A woman railroader waves a flag and gives a signal. A train decorated with pictures of Kliment Yefremovich Voroshilov, Dashiyn Damba, Mao Zedong, and the Soviet, Mongolian, and Chinese flags, moves over the tracks. Soviet rail line construction in snow: A crane places something into a truck. Field engineers refer to a map. A bulldozer levels the ground. A crane places a section of prefabricated track on the new roadbed. View of newly laid track.
Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin addresses the people of the Soviet Union during World War II. Men, women, and children listen to the speakers broadcasting the speech made by Stalin. “This war is not an ordinary war! It is the war of the entire Russian people.” the narrator translates Stalin’s speech. A printing press prints Russian newspapers. Man distributes newspapers. Russian men riding horses. Patriotic Russian men marching into a town to enlist in the war effort. Women plastering Soviet propaganda posters. Women and children trained for military tactics. A short-haired Russian woman tests a rifle. Boys use pickaxes in mining. A woman joins the Soviet Army. A female factory worker works with a lathe. An elderly Russian man harvesting wheat. A locomotive train driving. A woman piloting a ship. Women driving tractors. Women carry large sacks on their backs. Russian soldiers taking a metal bedframe. Farmers raising cattle. Houses, factories, and other infrastructure destroyed by fire and dynamite by Russians themselves. View of the Dniepropetrovsk dam in Ukraine. Russians blow up the Dniepropetrovsk Hydroelectric Station to prevent it from falling to Nazi hands. A woman torches her house. Farmers produce in fields. An old man with rifle watches sky for Nazi bombers. Burning houses and villages due to Soviet scorched earth policies. Guerrilla units trained and they march. Guerrilla soldiers with rifles. Men and women Soviet guerrilla soldiers talking. Soviet men hide in the bush. Guerrilla soldiers push down a telegraph post. A burning train. Guerrilla fighters shoot down German soldier. A burning oil depot. Exploding Nazi installations such as bridges, buildings, and warehouses. Russian guerrilla soldiers fire with machine guns. Animated map depicting Nazi German forces stopping outside Moscow. The Kremlin in Moscow. Fresh reserves of the Soviet Red Army march in Moscow.
Opening slate states (in Russian) "Our resistance to the enemy gets stronger and grows." Completely hidden in woods are Soviet soldiers using various telescopes and binoculars to observe on the Eastern front during World War 2. An Air Force pilot sits in the cockpit of his hidden Yak 9 fighter plane. View of of its nose and three-bladed propeller. Camera pans across to a hidden Soviet T-34 tank, and then to several Soviet soldiers looking at maps as they sit in front of a tent. Closeup of the soldiers. A BT tank with several crew in it heads toward the camera on a path in the woods. A heavily camouflaged army truck fords a shallow stream. Several soldiers ride past the camera, in a T-26 tank, raising lots of dust. Another T-26 tank passes. A sodier using binoculars. A Soviet tank or self propelled gun carrier with a stubby howitzer and a machine gun internally mounted. Soldiers remove foliage covering a BR-5 280mm mortar, which commences firing. Shells explode raising huge clouds of smoke and earth. Several views of the BR-5 firing in forest. Soviet soldiers crawling along the ground. One rises up and throws two items, in succession. Next a soldier fires a Browning M1917 .30 caliber machine gun. Soviet medics tending wounded. German Messerschmitt Bf 109 in flight overhead. Three Soviet Curtiss-Wright O-52 Owl aircraft fly in loose formation low over a body of water. View from ground of Yak-9 fighter plane coming in over trees to land. A German Bf 109 overhead. Soviet soldier looking through binoculars. Firre and smoke rising in the distance. Burning debris of crashed aircraft displaying Nazi swastika. Closeup of hands as Russian Air Force flyer makes entry into a log. Several smiling Soviet pilots stand together next to a Polikarpov I-153 airplane. They are dressed in leather flying jackets and have their goggles raised atop their hats. An officer with them is not wearing flying clothes. Soviet soldiers explore wreckage of a German warplane. Pieces of the wreckage are piled up in one spot. Several German prisoners are marched along a road guarded by a Soviet soldiers with pistols. A large group of German prisoner are marched in loose formation under guard.
Opening scene shows Soviet infantry moving across a field, near a parked, heavily camouflaged Soviet T-28 medium tank. during World War 2. Closeup of T-28 tank covered in straw, and another in the open in the field in the background. Several views of Soviet heavy artillery firing from camouflaged positions in woods. heavily camouflaged Soviet army trucks moving along a road. Closeup of a wide track Soviet assault tank with offset gun, passing on the road. Soviet soldiers unloading boxes of ammunition. Four Soviet aviators conversing. Airmen loading bombs aboard a Soviet aircraft. Soviet pilots confer before start of mission. They then proceed to their aircraft. One climbs into open cockpit of a Polikarpov I-16 fighter aircraft. A Tupolev SB-2 Katyushka bomber taking off on a grassy field. Closeup of soviet pilot in open cockpit of a MiG-1 fighter plane. Various views of two MiG-1 aircraft with engine running, as they taxis out and take off. View from ground of the two aircraft in flight overhead. A Soviet soldier with binoculars spotting aircraft overhead. Views from aircraft dropping bombs. View from ground of bombs bursting , raising huge clouds. Glimpse, again, of spotter with binoculars. smoke rising from crashed aircraft. Closeup of remains of destroyed German airplane. Aerial view of a Petlyakov Pe-8 bomber dropping bombs on an enemy held airfield. Closeup of gloved hand of pilot in cockpit, releasing bombs. Glimpse from inside the aircraft as bombs fall. Explosions ans smoke from exploding bombs. Fighter planes inflight overhead. Black smoke rising from crashed burning German airplane. Several crashed German planes. Camera pans over wreckage. Body of a German aviator lies on ground next to one wreck. Soviet soldiers examine wreckage and remove parts from some planes. Two stubby Polikarpov I-153 biwing aircraft taxiing across a field. Pilots climbing out of their cockpits. Pilot sliding down the wing of a Tupolev SB-2 Katyushka aircraft. Another SB-2 shuts engines down and a bemedaled Hero of the Soviet Union pilot climbs down from the cockpit and embraces a wounded aviator standing nearby. Scene shifts to German prisoners of war being escorted by armed Soviet soldiers. German prisoners being processed at a camp. A truckload of German prisoners, some ambulatory wounded, are brought to a processing camp. Closeups of several in prison camp.
A soviet army officer is shown speaking directly to the Soviet citizenry about defending against German aggression. As he speaks, the film shows brief glimpses of Soviet military preparedness. A group of Soviet BT tanks charges across an open field. These are followed by a group of T-26 tanks. Polikarpov I-16 aircraft are seen high overhead in formations. After more views of the army officer speaking, the film shows Soviet BT-5 fast tanks moving across a field. Then a cavalry charge demonstration is shown. That is followed by a glimpse of several Soviet torpedo boats racing through the water in side-by-side formation. Several unidentified Soviet tanks on a field. After more views of the army speaker, more views of cavalry charge and formations of Polikarpov I-16 aircraft in formation flight. A number of Soviet BT-7 tanks advancing toward the camera across a field.