Film begins showing a U.S. Army Air Forces C-47 transport plane in flight over the city of Cairo and Pyramids, in Egypt during World War 2. U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt's voice is heard speaking in his 1943 Christmas report to the Armed Forces. He states that following the Cairo Conference, he and Prime Minister Winston Churchill flew to Teheran, Iran. View of city of Teheran from an airplane overhead. View of front of the Soviet Embassy building there. Wider view showing conference principals on the porch with reporters and photographers below the steps. Next, a closer look with Soviet Marshal Stalin, President Roosevelt, and Prime Minister Churchill, seated on chairs, conversing. Closeup of the Big Three with their military commanders standing behind them. Views of ongoing Soviet operations on the Eastern Front. Russian troops firing field artillery from a snowy field. (A transport airplane is in the far background.) Shells bursting on snowy hillside. Soviet soldiers training in white arctic clothing rush through toward tanks and lie down in the snow. Three Soviet aircraft buzz a snow covered field. A huge explosion is seen and then Soviet cavalry charge across snow. View shifts to U.S. Army troops operating in Italy. A jeep filled with soldiers tows an artillery field piece across a shallow river. U.S. soldiers ride across a stream in a truck. Rear view of artillery piece being towed toward an italian town. Glimpses of aerial combat between Allied and German aircraft. General Dwight D. Eisenhower and General Mark Clark are seen riding in a jeep across a bridge in Italy. Glimpse of Italian people trying to clean up destroyed section of a town. Portrait of Benito Mussolini in the debris. General Eisenhower walking with a local British commanding officer and General Mark Clark, in Italy. Eisenhower and Clark at an outdoor briefing by British officers. Eisenhower pinning the Legion of Merit medal on U.S. Army Air Forces Lieutenant General Carl Spaatz, deputy commander of the Mediterranean Allied Air Forces who President Roosevelt says has been selected to be commander of Strategic Air Forces in Europe. Glimpse of B-24 Liberator bombers dropping bombs in Europe. Film shifts back to Teheran and the Big Three Leaders sitting in chairs. Closeups of them. Then their foreign secretaries step being them (Molotov, Hull, and Eden.) Nazi swastika flag. German armed forces marching on parade. German boys playing on artillery pieces under watchful eyes of German soldiers. Children at a playground. European farmers harvesting grain by hand. German troops in black parading. Glimpse of Adolf Hitler giving impassioned speech. Several views of Teheran conferees. President Roosevelt holding a ceremonial sword. Scenes of good will with hand shakes among conferees. Glimpses of British, Soviet, and Chinese troops attacking. Massed flags of the Allies.
Street scenes in Moscow, Soviet Union. People around a flower stall.Moscovites in a subway tunnel. Saint Basil's Church in Moscow, Soviet Union. Soviet people arrive at Saint Basil's Church in Red Square. A priest in the church. The entrance of Saint Basil's Church and the Spasskaya Tower. An honor guard of Soviet soldiers marches along the Kremlin wall at Red Square. Relief images on wall, including Marx, Lenin, and Stalin.
German troops in Russia. Russian prisoners being taken near Kirovograd as German armor supported by artillery and rockets counterattacks. A German armed Division about to make a counterattack. Nazi soldiers on tanks march forward. They fire from heavy German arms. A soldier smokes a cigar. The order being given to struck the rocket gun. A German soldier in a fox hole. A tank moves. Russian prisoners march forward
Vladimir Lenin dies at Lenin's villa in Gorki, Russia. Russian newspapers publish the news of Lenin's death. Thick snows cover on roads, houses and trees. The dead body of Lenin at his home. A chandelier in the house. Soviet leader Leon Trotsky stands near the dead body of Vladimir Lenin.
Vladimir Lenin dies at Lenin's villa in Gorki, Russia. A large crowd gathers on road outside Lenin's villa. People walk on thick snow cover to reach Lenin's villa. Lenin's wife weeps after his death. Other Soviet leaders stand near his dead body. Nicholas Bukharin, Joseph Stalin, General Klement E Voroshilov, Mikhail Kalinin, General Mikhail V Frunze and others. Civilians arrive and pay homage to their leader.
Soviet workers at an oil drilling site in Gronzy, Soviet Union. Workers operate a valve. Statue of a Soviet leader. View of an oil refinery. Tubular railroad tank car at a halt on the tracks. A worker atop a railroad car. The railroad car gets underway.
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