Opening scene shows Soviet coal miners underground moving chunks of coal by means of a conveyor system during World War 2. Some of the coal chunks are extremely large. They are moved upward in the mine shaft on a conveyor and then loaded into open coal cars seen linked together as a train on a rail in the mine.
The Russian Campaign of World War II. Several small buildings. German troops moving on foot in heavy wind. Horse mounted German cavalry troops moving on a path. Horse drawn artillery, troops on horse carts and on bicycles moving along a road.
Demobilization of Red Army at the end of World War II. A view of a coast with a hill in the background. Men carry a flag. Red Army officers with medals decorated on their uniforms. Soviet flag waves. A memorial at the coast.
Film depicts the rise of communism as a backlash to Imperial rule in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Animated map of the world. Tsar Nicholas II and Tsarina Alexandra of Russia at the balcony of the Winter Palace in Saint Petersburg, Russia. In contrast , scenes show peasants at work, carrying wooden logs. Russian peasants accompanied by Priest Father Georgiy Apollonovich Gapon, gather with a group of protesters in a square of St. Petersburg. People stand before the Winter Palace and protest against the hardship of their lives under the Tsar. An inserted scene shows Protesters being subdued by Tsarist soldiers. .Closeup of the young Tsar, Nicholas II. Closeup of Father Gapon. Closeup of a young Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (AKA Lenin). View of Lenin giving a revolutionary speech. The Tsar and Tsarina strolling together in the company of Royal Guardsmen. The Tsar mounting a horse for ceremonial review. Picture of Tsarina Alexandra and her hemophiliac son, Alexei Nikolaevich, in a sailor suit. Picture of Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin.
U.S. Vice President Henry A. Wallace's journey to China through Soviet union. Animated map of the world. He visits Siberian railroad and being greeted by an engineer from Leningrad. Wallace along with American visitors and engineer visit a farm. A view of the houses in the city and ducks in a pond. Then they visit a farm. Tomatoes and cucumbers in the green house. They look at the vegetables and fruits in the farm. Wallace eats a fruit. Pigs and cattle in the filed. He stands with a cattle. Next they visit a small community or a village. They enter a village store. A woman looks out from a window. Next they visit a village soviet. The American visitors shake hands with a man.
U.S. Vice President Henry A. Wallace on a journey to China through Soviet union. Vice President along with American visitors visit Lake Baikal. The view of mountains around the Lake. Visitors and Wallace on a tug to take a trip of the lake and the scientists explains their work. They then go by a plane to the eastern side of the Lake. He talks to a Russian flier.
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