Soviet aircraft and missiles in the Soviet Union. A Soviet tactical ballistic missile R-11 also known as Scud is being raised to a launch position. Technicians work on the control panel. The missile is launched. The missile moves upwards emitting a fiery flare from the tail. An explosion occurs and a massive pillar of smoke rises.
U.S. First Lady Patricia Nixon as a public figure and as a companion of President Richard Nixon. Patricia Nixon visits Kremlin in Moscow during her visit to the Soviet Union. She walks on the roads with other women, she visits classrooms and chats with students, then a hospital and talks to the patients. Pat Nixon talks to a group of young girl dancers. A crowd of civilians gathers to welcome Patrica Nixon. She meets a bear with its handler and shakes the bear's paw.
German troops in Lake Ilmen sector in the Soviet Union during World War II. German soldiers drag equipment and artillery through mud. The soldiers push the equipment and motorcycle bikes through the mud. They walk through muddy waters. Water being pumped and bailed out from trenches. The soldiers use buckets to bail out water. Tanks and rifles being cleaned by the soldiers. German soldiers wash their faces, shave their beards, wipe their faces and comb their hair. German barrage balloon or reconnaissance balloon in flight above a German encampment.
German troops in the Soviet Union during World War II. German infantrymen advance in Latvia's Kurland sector. German StuG III G tank destroyers charge across a field followed by German soldiers carrying panzerfausts. Variety of destroyed Russian armored vehicles including Lend-Lease tank. Soldiers at a machine gun.
German troops advance in Transcarpathian Oblast, Ukraine, during World War 2. Map shows the Polish-Ukrainian (Soviet Union) border. Narrator refers to the Battle in the East (the Eastern Front). German armored forces, camouflaged with branches of shrubbery, attack to the East, primarily from Poland, in Operation Barbarossa. Stug III self-propelled assault guns are seen, as well as towed artillery pieces moving along rural roads in agricultural areas. German officers look through binoculars. Spire of a church seen in distant rural village. German artillery firing at close to zero elevation. A small village with houses burning. Closeup of German tank commander looking out from his top hatch. German soldier receiving first aid for cut on face. German infantry engaging defenders in house-to-house combat with small arms. Houses ablaze in the village.
Officers are awarded medals in the Soviet Union during World War II. Interior of an office. A Russian Government official awards medals to the officers. The officers shake hands with the official and receive the medals.
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