Dignitaries from different Nations join the Big Three in signing an atom-test ban agreement. The event is at Kremlin where United States, Britain and the USSR agree to ban all atoms tests except underground nuclear testing. View of dignitaries. Secretary of State Dean Rusk signing for the United States, Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko for the Soviets and Lord Home for Britain as Chairman Nikita Khrushchev looks on with United Nations Secretary General, U Thant.
Film begins with picture of famous Soviet statue of Worker and Kolkhoz Woman holding hammer and sickle, respectively, over their heads. The title,"View of the World Soviet," is superimposed. A slate gives a title in English: "The Commanders in Chief." Commander in Chief of North-West Forces, Marshal Kliment Voroshilov is seen meeting and exchanging handshakes and salutes with several Soviet soldiers in a wide open field during World War 2. Russian tanks drive past, raising lots of dust. and Commander in Chief of Western Front, Semyon Timoshenko at the front with troops. Commander in Chief of South-West Forces, Marshal Semyon Mikhaylovich Budenny, watches with several officers and soldiers, from behind a Soviet armored vehicle, as a BT-7 tank passes them. Next, Chief of Western Front, Marshal Semyon Timoshenko, visits troops at the front. Accompanied by officers of his staff, he bends down to observe something with soldiers at the front. Closeup of two Soviet troops in a defensive position. Timoshenko next to a soldier in a trench, pulls some foliage in front of himself, as camouflage. Marshal Budenny is seen again, this time, consulting with officers at the front. They converse and point at something of interest in the distance. Soviet infantry are seen advancing across a wide area in the distance.
Animated map shows the four different zones of Germany after World War II.: British, Soviet, French and American Zone. Animated map focuses on the Soviet zone and shows the Iron Curtain rising along the Soviet Border. Russian troops march through streets in Berlin. Civilians board trains on streets. Russian woman directs traffic. Damaged buildings in the background. Russian officers enter and leave Headquarter in Berlin. East German men and women workers on farms. Russian soldiers and East German civilians pull heavy machinery for shipment to Russia. Interior of the Dresden China Works. Civilians mold and paint china articles.
Snow covered grounds in Leningrad, Russia (present day Saint Petersburg, Russia). Soviet artillery in front of the Neva River and a road with moving streetcar. Ships stuck on frozen river. A man stands beside a Howitzer in front of St. Isaac's Cathedral. Soviet soldiers bring a tank and a barrage balloon. People on the frozen streets of Leningrad, Russia. A destroyed bus covered in deep snow on the street. A Soviet soldier’s moustache is covered with snow. Soviet soldiers in prone position to defend Leningrad from the German forces. German tanks and soldiers on the streets of Leningrad during World War II. No electricity and water supply. Russian civilians walk as streetcars remained out of service and covered in deep snow. People dig holes in frozen streets to gather water. A woman washing clothes on the street. Food is rationed during Leningrad blockade. A baker cuts bread into slices for rationing. A woman receives rationed bread. Women clean the rubble on streets. Aerial bombing of Leningrad by the Luftwaffe. A German Karl-Gerät “Thor” supermortar. German soldiers load and fire supermortar. A mortar fire hits a house, destroying it entirely. A building falls to the ground. German bombardment of Leningrad. Machines and Soviet war production workers build supplies weapons and ordnance in Leningrad. Women workers assemble mortars. Animated maps show Leningrad mostly surrounded by German territory. Shell manufacture. Supplies are brought in by truck, tracked vehicles, tractors, and railroad on ice across Lake Ladoga. German planes bomb trucks. Russians laying railroad tracks across frozen Lake Ladoga. Infirm and sick civilians, women, children board train out of Leningrad for medical treatment. A traffic enforcer waves flag on Lake Ladoga. Red Army soldiers in white suits advance in the battlefield. A tank advances. The arrival of spring. Melting snow in springtime. A wooden cross from a German grave is being washed away in a stream. Soviet trucks moving in convoy across flooded Lake Ladoga in spring. Russian children playing on the streets. People indulge in recreational activities. Civilians riding bicycles and taking streetcars. A woman cleans window. Russians crowd the streetcars of Leningrad. Soviet sailors clapping on deck. Russian dancers dancing traditional folk dances to celebrate. Soviet Navy sailors play music for the dancers. The sailors clap and applaud the performance. German prisoners of war enter Leningrad. A Soviet woman spits on the captured German soldiers. Russians marching in Leningrad.
Demobilization of Soviet Red Army at the end of World War II. Two rows of Soviet Army soldiers lined up against each other during a change of guard ceremony. Each soldier falls out and hands over his gun to the one standing opposite him in the line. Soldiers lined up along a path. Soldiers carrying a flag move past the soldiers. Each soldier kisses the flag one by one.
Soviet civilian women are seen registering to contribute blood for the war effort during World War 2. They pass by a registration desk and are then seen in large numbers attended by medical staff who take their blood as they ly on cots. Both donors and medical staff are dressed in white and wear head and face masks. View of blood being collected in a flask. The women donors sit up, smiling, when finished. Physicians and staff consolidating collected blood in batches and packing them in boxes for transport.
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