A film about war activities in the Soviet Union during World War II. Soviet Navy ships underway in sea. A barrage balloon overhead. A cameraman runs on a deck and enters a submarine. Interiors of the submarine. Marines at controls. A gauge in the submarine. The periscope in water as the submarine is underway. The conning tower. View of a burning ship through the periscope.
Nazi prisoners and captured equipment in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republic (USSR) during World War II. A large column of Germans being marched along a road by Soviet soldiers. Captured German equipment.
Consequences of the 1960 U-2 reconnaissance aircraft incident. Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev addresses the Soviet Presidium in Moscow, Soviet Union. Exterior of the U.S. Department of State. A spokesperson of the State Department gives a statement in the United States.
Georgii Popov president of Central Executive Committee of Moscow also known as "builder of Moscow" is addressing the audience in the Soviet Union. Scene changes to traffic on streets of moscow, and then views of men and women workers busy on a construction site for a building in Moscow. They assist with laying bricks.
A huge number of local men, volunteering to join the Red Army, are seen parading (in civilian clothes) through a Soviet town, in 1941, during time of the World War 2 German invasion of the Soviet Union, known as Operation Barbarossa. Men lined up at an outdoor recruiting station where Army officers and a clerk are seated at a table. View of a man signing his name and date of birth a sheet of paper. Next, he shakes hands with all the recruiters. Next, recruits are seen walking in loose formation. They are still in civilian clothes, but carry sacks with their first government- issued belongings. Change of scene shows workers in a factory and miners working in a coal mine. they use a machine driven conveyor to move chunks of coal from the mine. Scientists at work. The man at extreme right is Soviet Nobel Laureate Physicist, Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa (Peter Kapitza). He heads the Department of Oxygen Industry. attached to the USSR Council of Ministers. Oxygen bubbles in a scientific glass device. Several views of fiery molten steel flowing in a steel mill. Older retired man back at work in a machine shop, operating a milling machine, to help the war effort. A man using calipers as he instructs a woman in a machine shop. Closeups of a young women working on various machines in the shop. One at a lathe, stops to inspect a piece of turned steel she is making. A man hot forging a part on a drop forge. A woman monitoring machinery controlling the forge. Women from rural areas in the Ukraine, attend a class to learn about tractors. Instructor using a large illustration to explain parts of a tractor. One of the women manipulates a tractor part. Another adjusts a carburetor. One closes the side hood of a tractor. One woman gets behind the wheel of a tractor, for the first time.Her instructor manipulates its gears as they drive it forward. A line of school children walks in a village with their teachers. Next, the girls are seen cultivating crops on a truck farm, and the boys are seen working in a wheat field. Three boys are assigned "Sentry Duty" and climb wooden towers to maintain lookout for invading German paratroops or other forces. An older man performing similar duties on a rooftop in a village. Another man on the lookout atop a wooden tower. An old man with a rifle on the lookout. Another man holding a rifle in a wheat field.
Soviet troops parade in Red Square in Moscow, Soviet Union. Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin arrives to review the parade. Soviet sailors march along a street. A band plays. The parade is reviewed by Stalin and other Soviet officials. The crowd cheers as Stalin and other Soviet officials wave. U.S. Army, Navy and Army Air Force officers are seen among the spectators. The U.S. Army Air Force Officer watches the aircraft flying overhead, with binoculars and he pauses to chat with the U.S. Army officer about his observations. Large masses of Soviet civilians join the parade, after the military units have passed. Soviet foreign minister Viacheslav Molotov waves from the balcony. Russian school girls, in aprons, pass by. Stalin doffs his hat.
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