Soviet Home Guard Cossack Cavalry are seen mounted up to train during World War 2. They ride past a fence where several rural people wave to them, including one old woman. A Cossack contingent in Papaha (black Cossack hats) is put through their paces by their commander. He directs one of his troop to charge on horseback, brandishing his sword. The Cossack charges along a path lined with a series wooden stakes. He swings his saber to cut the successive stakes while galloping through the course. Closeup of one typically cut clean through. In final scenes, the entire Cossack troop charges in formation
Film opens showing a woman working alone in a Soviet machine shop. Closeup of a milling machine in operation being cooled by a continuous flow of liquid over the surfaces. Closeup of the woman machinist. She moves a tool holder close to a machine. Another woman is seen in the background. Closeup of milling machine in operation with steel chips accumulating from the milling.
Film begins showing an armed member of Soviet home guard standing in a wheat field during World War 2.. Nearby a tractor is pulling a harvesting combine machine across part of the wheat field. The harvester is being operated by a woman. A man stands by her side. Closeup of that man and then of him and the woman operating the harvester. Many children are seen bent over gleaning remains in the wake of the harvester. They bring their findings to a boy who empties them into a large sack. Another girl empties a bucket of gleanings into the boy's sack. View of two men standing on platform of the harvester, where they are filling sacks with harvested wheat and depositing them on the ground as the harvester moves along. Closeup of the man and woman atop the harvester. Closeup of the reaper blades cutting the wheat. Camera pans to edge of the wheat field, where civilians are busy building defenses. Camera moves closer and shows the worker in deep ravine to serve as a tank barrier. This group are mostly men. The next scene shows women and girls shoveling earth. Scene shifts to men cutting a new tank trap. Others are burying wood obstacles into the ground. A woman is seen preparing food in a large kettle over a fire. She uses a large ladle to sample the food. Women and girls are working on the defense works in the background.Change of scene shows men placing large logs into the edge of a deep multi-level tank trap. Men and women shovel earth to the top of a log fortification.
Opening slate in Russian reads "We will give the Country more bread." Soviet farmers are seen threshing grain with a machine in a field. A woman drives a cart full of grain pulled by a horse. Other horse-drawn wagons deposit more grain in front of the thresher. Men atop the thresher use pitchforks to guide grain into the machine. Closeup atop the thresher where men and women with pitchforks fill the input bin. Closeup of grain pouring from the threshing machine. More scenes of men and women handling harvested stalks and of grain pouring from the machine. Final scenes show huge piles of finished grain being stirred and handled.
A Soviet pilot in the cockpit of an aircraft in flight. Aerial refueling between two Russian aircraft. Brief view of the two aircraft. Bomber receiving fuel is possibly a Tupolev Tu-16. The probe approaches and inserts into the drogue during a probe-and-drogue refueling.
Demobilization of Red Army at the end of World War II. Chinese people gather along road side and cheer the Soviet Red Army troops as they demobilize at the end of World War II. Troops loaded on tanks move past the cheering crowds. A large crowd celebrates as they carry a huge poster of Joseph Stalin.
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