A plaque marked with "30th of October Plant" in Russian. Interior of the plant in the Soviet Union is shown, technicians at work. Railroad wheels are manufactured in the plant. Scene changes to Russian Kolkhoz farmers taking their grain harvest to Marinskian authorities in their carts. Farmers receive a portion of their harvest as an award for the work. Russian peasant women (“babushkas”) wearing traditional head scarves assist the men with the grain delivery.
Views of industrial development projects and activities during first 5-year plan under Joseph Stalin in Soviet Union. Mining activities, with ore being moved on conveyor belts and open rail cars. view upwards toward piping and towers in a petroleum refining plant. Steel plant and open hearth furnace. Turbine deck in a hydroelectric power plant. Electric transmission lines. Farmer irrigating crops with machinery. Workers shoveling grain out of open bed trucks. Apartment houses under construction. A machinist turning metal on a lathe. Factory workers in a room with pictures of Lenin and Stalin on the wall. Freight trains underway (ostensibly to Siberia). Officials visiting a machine shop, during the 2nd Five Year Plan, in 1935. They present worker's medals to Stakhanovites (superior workers). Views of Stakhanovites conversing and comparing medals at a presentation occasion. View of criminal (political) proceedings conducted in the Great Purge (Yezhovshchina) during 1937-38. Photograph of N.I. Yezhov (called Stalin's executioner, by the narrator). Picture of Stalin walking with Felix Dzerzhinsky, Lev Kamenev, and Gregory Zinoviev, Ca. 1925. The latter two images are circled as narrator says they were quickly disposed of after Stalin seized power. View of trials in which persons are accused of plotting with Leon Trotsky, in 1936, at the Hotel Bristol, in Copenhagen (according to narrator, who notes that the hotel was no longer in operation in 1936). More trial scenes. Image of N.I. Yezhov is shown, again, as narrator states that he was purged in 1938, along with other officials.
The Russian Campaign of World War II. German soldiers with guns in Soviet Union. Troops on motorcycles and trucks moving on a path. Soldiers beside artillery on a field. The soldiers firing the artillery. Horse drawn artillery and troops moving on a path between the fields. German soldiers firing artillery in the field. Smoke rising from shelled positions. Houses in view. A German tank and a few soldiers beside it. A house and a vehicle near it in the background. The troops on motorcycles beside the tank. Explosions occurring at a distance. Soldiers standing between stumps of trees. The soldiers advancing on a field. A damaged building in the background. Smoke rising from areas in the far background. Debris scattered on the ground and a tank on a path beside the debris. Thick clouds of smoke rising from bombed areas in the background. Several German tanks with troops moving on a path. Smoke filled air in the background.
The Russian Campaign of World War II. A German observation balloon in flight in Soviet Union. An airman looking through binoculars. German soldiers beside artillery on a field. German infantry and tanks moving on a path between fields. Troops and StuG III tank destroyers entering a city. A few German soldiers outside the entrance door of a building. Russian troops surrender and soldiers with raised arms step out of the door. Russian prisoners of war move in columns. German soldiers beside damaged buildings on a city street. Debris strewn on the street. A few soldiers on the bank of a water body. Smoke rising from shelled Russian positions in the background. A German 38t tank moving in water with a soldier atop the hatch. Artillery fired at more positions and smoke rising from the areas. Beute French Hotchkiss and Somua tanks firing at night and flares from the explosions.
A Russian science fiction film depicts the return of a proposed reusable space ship vehicle in the Soviet Union. A satellite gives signals about the space vehicle. Civilians listen to the news about the space vehicle at the conclusion of its trip to the moon. The manned space vehicle returns, flying in for an aircraft style water landing. Officers watch the landing through their binoculars. A boat moves towards the space vehicle. The astronauts aboard the boat. (An early concept for what became the future Space Shuttle program of NASA).
Red Premier Nikita Khrushchev addresses the delegates of Soviet Communist Congress in U.S.S.R. (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics). He speaks about the mass production of ICBM (Inter Continental Ballistic Missile) in Russia. Delegates applaud him.
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