German forces during World War II. German forces fire at Russian positions as a Nazi soldier looks through binoculars. Nazi cavalry units march across a field in Russia. Russian troops fight from underground positions. Nazi troops enter a Russian village and set it on fire. Russian civilians taken as prisoners. A Nazi officer interrogates them.
Russian scientists return to Russia. Scientists disembark from a ship as they return to Leningrad after they were rescued from drifting ice sheets. A large number of people gather to welcome them. Scientists ride past a crowded street. People welcome the scientists with a mass ticker tape parade on their arrival in Moscow. Scientists in a car move past a large crowd.
Freight trains loaded with wheat and oil on their way to Germany from Russia during World War II. Workers load wheat in a train. Officers near a train. A man opens the lid of a tanker. Men put pipes in tankers of a freight train.
Events during World War I. View into distance along newly laid railroad track, on round log ties, across plains of Russia. Railroad car containing construction materials. Construction workers maneuver wheel barrows of construction materials along a wooden path. Russian officers pose on platform, looking out over the newly laid tracks. A French officer is also seen on the platform.
The October, 1917 revolution in Russia, during World War 1. Opening scene shows an explosion at the base of a tall column topped by a winged figure with outstretched arms. The column and statue teeter and then fall in a crash to the ground. Within the same scenes another similar collumn stands, but any statue it contained is gone. Next, a Bolshevik rioter is seen on a ladder, prying a large bas relief statue of Romanov double eagle from face of a building. It falls and breaks into many pieces on the ground.
Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin comes to power in Russia after the October Revolution (Russian Revolution timeframe). A large crowd listens as Vladimir Lenin addresses them. Leon Trotsky and other Bolshevik leaders on stage with Lenin. Russian women with their children listen to the speech of Lenin. Lenin, Trotsky and other leaders stand in outdoors.
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