Aircraft from the Imperial Iranian Air Force fleet includes United States McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II and Northrop F-5 fighter jets. A row of Northrop F-5 fighter jets at an airfield in Iran. Sign in English and Persian reads “31st T.F. (Tactical Fighter) Squadron”. Imperial Iranian Air Force pilots attend class. A map of the Middle East showing flight paths, radii, flags of the various Air Forces in the region. Flags and roundels of the Soviet Union, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon. A bomb is installed into a jet fighter-bomber. A fuze is fitted into the bomb nose. A man wearing a jacket with an “F-5 Iran” patch. Iranian military pilots run out of a building and board trucks.
600 displaced Kalmyk people living in Ingolstadt Displaced Persons (DP) Camp, West Germany. A German girl rides her bicycle in front of a former army barracks now housing Kalmyk refugees from the Soviet Union. Kalmyk people and pets in refugee camp. A Kalmyk man goes downstairs. A Kalmyk woman mopping floors of a corridor. A stone statue of Buddha. A man spins a Buddhist prayer wheel and smokes incense from an incense burner. A tapestry depicting Buddha on display. Kalmyk Buddhist monks praying. Buddhist monks offer a plate of grain and glass beads. A Kalmyk woman hang laundry in front of a Christian cross adorned with garlands. Kalmyk men drinking beer and smoking cigarettes. Kalmyk women sit on the grass while holding babies. A pet goat is seen with the women. A Kalmyk boy and a little girl looking pensive. Kalmyk children playing with ball in the refugee center. Men drinking in front of a makeshift barber with sign reads “Friseur”. Children climbing up stairs. Kalmyk children attend a language class in English, French, or Spanish.
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.
German Sdkfz.253 half-track and infantry advance through rubble of bombed out Stalingrad. German forces fire machine guns and throw grenades. Views from a hill of the city of Stalingrad burning; houses seen in foreground and factories behind them. Coverage changes to Leningrad, where German artillery is fired at besieged Leningrad. Artillery shells explode on Russian targets across a river from the German forces. German Infantry enter a town and close-up view of a German army soldier with handgun drawn during house-to-house battle. German soldiers run through a forest passing dead Russians and abandoned equipment, including tanks upended and destroyed.
After credits, opening slate refers to the battle front of the future, battles of the Motherland. Opening action shows a Tupolev SB-2 Katyushka bomber taking off on a grassy field. Momentary glimpse of the nose of a Mig-1 with engine running. Then a stubby Polikarpov I-153 biwing aircraft takes off. Two of them are seen in flight overhead, and then several more. Scene shifts to some captured German prisoners of war being escorted by Soviet armed guards. Troops and more prisoners walk down gang planks from a large flat river barge. A T-26 tank sits overlooking the barge as its occupants depart under guard. Scene shifts to an advanced model T-26 Soviet tank moving across a field. Another is also moving in the background. Other tanks move past the camera, through sand, and past trees. A Soviet BT-5 tank speeds past the camera. Soviet troops firing Quad-mounted PM M1910 Maxim machine guns as antiaircraft weapon. Other antiaircraft weapons firing at a German Bf 109 aircraft in flight overhead. Aerial view of a German Stuka Dive Bomber (Ju-87). Soviet gunners firing a camouflaged 85 mm M1939 (52-K) anti-aircraft gun. A German Bf 109 fighter aircraft turns and makes a gentle dive . Next, a burning aircraft is seen plummeting to earth. A large explosion. Two 85mm antiaircraft gins firing. More German aircraft are seen and another one is shot down. Several early ,model Soviet T-26 light infantry tanks run in formation over sharply rolling hills in what appears to be a testing or demonstration ground. several explosions occur near them as they move. Field artillery firing from concealed positions in woods. A tree is felled by shelling and an explosion nearby raises huge clods of earth. Soviet infantry charge through barbed wire. One soldier carries a mine detector. Soviet troops charge through woods. Several German prisoners of war are taken. Numerous German prisoners seated on the ground in an open field.
Animated map shows shrinking area of Tsarist Russian control as Bolshevik influence from Russian Revolution moves across Russia, leaving central region around Moscow still politically contested. Russian troops run through a snowy rail yard, next to a flat car on which an automobile sits. Bolsheviks board another flat car. Mikhail Kalinin speaks forcefully to a crowd, and later, with a cigarette in his mouth, mingles with young people in the crowd. People receiving Bolshevik newspapers at a train depot. Newsmen conversing. Another speaker delivering an impassioned speech.
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