Funeral for Soviet Communist leader Mikhail Frunze. Streams of Russian mourners form lines in streets and pass by the body of Frunze, lying in State, on a catafalque in the Hall of Columns of the Labor Temple, Moscow. Family members are seen as well as honor guards of Soviet leaders, including: Lev Kamenev; Joseph Stalin; Mikhail Kalinin; and Mikhail Tomsky. Officials bearing the coffin of Lenin from the train station. Soldiers and citizens mass in Red Square, passing by the Mausoleum and Kremlin Wall Necropolis.
Red Army troops training with camouglaged 76K/02 field guns. View of gunner using gun sight behind the shield of a 122 mm howitzer M1910/30, as another gun crew member inserts a round into it. The gun is fired. View of the breech area including the gun sight. Russian lancers on horseback, canter in formation past the camera. Soviet MS-1 (T-18) light tanks and some infantry move past the camera. A twin-turreted armored gun railroad car is in the background. Brief glimpse of a British-manufactured Russian Mark 4 Female tank, number 9085. Scene shifts to the 76K/02 field artillery battery firing again. Next, infantry are seen practicing along with the previously seen Mk 4 tank (No. 9085) and another similar tank.
Contingent of Soviet Army soldiers walking informally, before a crowd in Red Square. The Kremlin walls are seen in background. Two of the soldiers pull very small wheeled guns behind them. Closeup of a uniformed military band playing. A prize banner for a military unit is displayed. Leon Trotsky, head of the Red Army, speaks following the presentation of the banner (presentation not seen). The commander of the awardee unit speaks in turn. A politician speaks to a crowd of mostly civilians. Alexandra Kollontai, Soviet champion of women's causes, speaks from a wooden stand erected beneath the Kremlin wall.
A map shows the Eastern Front. Junkers Ju 87 or Stukas dive bomb a copper refinery near Stalingrad. The dive bombers drop bombs. Smoke from the explosions. Soviet soldiers return fire from positions among the ruins. Artillery, mortar, and machine gun fire force the Soviets to abandon shattered positions. Soldiers eating and drinking. among the destroyed buildings. (World War II period).
The Battle of Stalingrad in USSR during World War 2. A map depicts the eastern front German advance into Stalingrad. German and Italian skirmishers crouch and advance in a field on the outskirts of Stalingrad. Soldiers advance under the cover of tanks and artillery. Aircraft provide aerial support. Troops enter Stalingrad. Street fighting in the city. Soldiers amidst war damaged buildings and structures. Wrecked abandoned Russian tanks and war equipment. Rubble on the streets. Military equipment on rail cars. Damaged Soviet factories and plants. The war torn city.
Vyacheslav Mikhaylovich Moltov and other dignitaries arrive at railway station in Moscow. General Charles de Gaulle gets off a train and is greeted by Moltov. They salute while a Russian band plays 'Marseilles'. Soldiers march behind General de Gaulle. (World War II period).