Film opens showing animated map of the Finnish Front during World War 2. Two Finnish women are seen search the horizon with binoculars and keeping a log of some kind. Uniformed Finnish men and women ride with supplies on sleighs pulled by tractors. A group of them are seen at an outdoor field kitchen getting a meal. Women take blood from a uniformed Finnish woman volunteer donor. Women lined up in a wooded area are being decorated by a Finnish officer. A large number of Soviet prisoners of war (some showing minor wounds bandaged) is directed up a hill to begin work on defensive positions. Some carry long logs. Closeup of some prisoners passing the camera. Prisoners shoveling sandy soil and carrying building materials.
American food, machine, tools and other supplies loaded in ships for Europe under Marshall Plan. German citizens in West Berlin Germany busy rebuilding after World War 2 destruction. Men at construction sites and boys and men moving equipment, bricks, steel, lumber, cement, and wheel barrows. Communists demonstrate in Soviet east Berlin. Men and women climbing fences at a building while a crowd pushes forward. Communists blockade Berlin. East German police officers in a human chain move a crowd. A blockaded area dividing the city. Industrial production stopping due to power failures. Closeup of analog power dial moving to zero from a power cut. A light in a factory turning off. Goods piled up idle in train stations, unable to be moved. A blocked border crossing at Helmstedt, and a line of trucks with food supplies at the crossing, stopped and unable to pass. Truck drivers discuss the impasse with a Russian guard.
Workers cutting sugar cane in a field in Cuba, before the takeover by Fidel Castro. View from above of a Cuban city slum at that time. Street scenes and ordinary life in the slums. Children being bathed from buckets of water. Fidel Castro and Ernesto Che Guevara with other revolutionaries in the Sierra Maestra mountains.Later they move through the land amidst cheers of supporters. Raul Castro and Che Guevara attending a public meeting. Fidel Castro harranguing a crowd in the countryside; and later from the balcony of a building in a city. Soviet Leader,Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev with Fidel Castro at the UN and in Harlem in New York City in September 1960. Cubans being executed by Guevera firing squads.
The fourth presidential election debate held between Democratic nominee Senator John F. Kennedy and Republican nominee U.S. Vice President Richard Nixon in New York, United States on 21st October 1960. News correspondent John Edwards ask Vice President Nixon about the conditions to be met before meeting Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev at Vienna Summit of 1961. Nixon replies that an agenda should be prepared which should delineate those issues on which there is a possibility of some agreement or negotiation. He says that U.S. President should not go to the conference unless they have such an agenda, unless they have some reasonable assurance from Khrushchev that he intends seriously to negotiate on those points. News correspondent Quincy Howe asks Senator Kennedy to comment on the topic. Senator Kennedy says that the U.S. should not go to the summit until there is some reason to believe that a meeting of minds can be obtained on either Berlin, outer space or general disarmament including nuclear testing. He mentions the failure of the conference on May 15th 1960 in Paris, France. He further says it is important that they maintain their determination, that they indicate that they're building their strength, that they are determined to protect their position and that they are determined to protect their commitment.
Delegations from three Allied nations arrive in Washington DC, United States to study post-war security during World War II. Delegates disembark from aircraft and review a parade of troops. Soviet Ambassador to the United States Andrei Gromyko, U.S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull, British Permanent Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs Alexander Cadogan, U.S. Under Secretary of State Edward Stettinius arrive and attend the Dumbarton Oaks Conference. Secretary of State Hull speaks at the conference. Alexander Cadogan speaks.
Russian Ambassador to Czechoslovakia Valerian Zorin in Czechoslovakia. Valerian Zorin addresses the meeting of the Society for Cultural Relations with the USSR. Large posters of Soviet figures Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin hang behind Zorin. The audience listen to Zorin’s speech. Zorin speaks into a microphone. The crowd applauds.
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