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.
Soviet aircraft and missiles in the Soviet Union. Officials review the May Day parade at the Red Square in Moscow. Various Soviet missiles including Ganel missile, SS-N-5 Serb missile, SA-5 Griffon missile and SS-5 Skean missile are displayed at the parade. Soviet troops loaded in trucks pass in review. A missile in a silo.
A parade in Moscow, Soviet Union. Soviet soldiers march during a parade in Moscow, Soviet Union. Artillery and tanks pass in review. Soviet fighter planes in flight as the General Secretary of Communist Party Joseph Stalin and other officers look at them. Soviet tanks and armored vehicles pass in review.
Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin is given a welcome ceremony in Moscow, after he became the first human to voyage into outer space. From a Russian newsreel with English narration, created during the "Space Race" between the United States and the Soviet Union. Yuri Gagarin arrives by an Aeroflot plane (CCCP-757) at a Moscow airfield. Premier of the Soviet Union, Nikita Khrushchev, greets Gagarin. A huge crowd holds pictures and banners of Gagarin and Khrushchev. Gagarin reports to Premier Khrushchev that he has fulfilled his mission and feels well and ready for his next assignment. Gagarin greets his wife, Valentina Gagarina. He moves in a car through crowd filled streets. At a ceremony in the Kremlin Premier Khrushchev and Defense Minister Marshal of the Soviet Union Rodion Malinovsky congratulate Gagarin and award him the title "Hero of the Soviet Union".
Vladimir Lenin seated in a chair at home, holding his cat. His wife, Nadezhda Krupskaya enters and sits. she pets the cat. Lenin begins speaking to an unseen person (possibly an interviewer). Brief glimpse of Joseph Stalin.
Joseph Stalin, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party, being interviewed by Eugene Lyons (unseen). Lyons was United Press International (UPI) correspondent in Moscow, and the first Western correspondent to be granted an interview with Stalin.