Views of wheat fields in the Soviet Union. A harvester combine is being pulled by a tractor in the field. A man riding on, and operating, a horse drawn multi-paddle wheel harvesting device. He is followed by a boy on horseback leading a pair of horses pulling another man on a similar harvesting device. Change of scene to men and women in the fields gathering and bundling sheaves of wheat.
Soviet soldiers receive orders to attack German forces. They salute and walk towards T-34 tank. Soldier on motorcycle fords muddy stream. Soldiers climb into what looks like a T-34 tank with turret turned backward. Soviet armorer directs loading of bomb on a TB-7 bomber. line of TB-7s. Navigator with charts. Aviators flight planning. A Soviet Polikarpov I-15 airplane with engine running. Pilot climbing into a Yakovlev Yak-9 fighter plane. I-15 taking off. Closeup of large all-metal Soviet aircraft with portholes and windows in fuselage. Another I-15 taking off. Another pilot climbing into YaK-9. Closeup of I-15. Formation of I-15s flying low over ground. Soviet officers reviewing aerial photos. Soviet gunners firing a heavy field howitzer (Canon de 155 C modèle 1917 Schneider). Maxim water-cooled heavy machine gun firing. Lots of field artillery firing. Aircrews planning. Several Soviet Polikarpov I-16 fighter planes in formation. Several T-26 tanks crossing a field and one crossing a wooden bridge. Russian infantry moving alongside a road and pulling a wheeled water-cooled 7.92 mm Maxim Machine Gun model 1910. A tank plowing through sandy hill. I-16 fighter planes flying above T-26 tanks maneuvering below. Soviet planes dropping bombs and tanks moving through explosions and smoke. View of bombardier in airplane. Huge explosion from a bomb. A Tupolev ANT-40 bomber flying through flak. Another huge explosion on the ground. ANT-40 aka Tupolev SB-2, in flight. More views of bombs dropping and huge explosions on ground. I-16s dive bombing. Tanks scurrying through smoke. Infantry following T-26 tanks. Smoke all around. Two I-16s in formation. Tanks laying smoke screens on ground below. More huge explosions. A Tupolev SB-2 speeding overhead. More explosions. A German Focke-Wulf Fw 58 Weihe aircraft in flight (reversed film-Swastika backwards). Gunners arm anti-aircraft guns and fire them as well as quad Maxim machine guns. A burning airplane descending. Crashed airplane burning. Narrator states "Junkers and Messerschmitts" are downed in flames. Many guns firing. Infantry and tanks passing area in flames. Soldier crawling in field. Yak fighter landing. Skull and crossbones wiped from captured German trucks. German prisoners stepping from open wooden ferry. Others surrendering. German POWs being marched. Military records being unloaded from German truck. More German prisoners. Soviet medic treating German wounded soldier. Large amounts of currency captured. Soviet soldiers offering German POWs cigarettes.
Miners use multiple motor-driven drills to penetrate roof of mining tunnel in the Soviet Union during World War 2. Heavy dust drops from the drill holes and completely covers the miners as they work. As drilling proceeds, they exchange original drill bits with longer ones to penetrate deeper. Open rail cars filled with chunks of mineral ore are seen traveling along a rail line carrying the ore from the mine.
Opening scene shows a number of women at drafting tables using engineer or architect drafting aids as they work on technical drawings. When alerted to the end of their work session, they all get up from their desks, don their coats and leave the building. Change of scene shows a woman returning to her lathe in a machine shop. A supervisor uses a pair of calipers to measure the item she is machining. Closeup of the woman's lathe shows she is using a facing tool on the part being machined. Closeup of the woman as she works. Closeups of other women also working in the machine shop. One uses a drill and two use lathes.
Soviet farmers are seen harvesting grain in a field, during World War 2. Closeup of men and women operating a tractor pulled paddle-style harvester. They leave sheaves of cut grain behind as they continue harvesting. Closeup of men and women gathering the sheaves with pitch forks and loading them onto wagons. A line of horse-drawn wagons, loaded with sheaves, moves along the edge of the field. Closeup of a wheat field. View of tractor pulling a harvesting combine as it cuts wheat. Closeup of reaper blades.Closeup of Soviet farmer in the combine. He wears several medals on his work jacket. View from behind two farmers in the combine. Threshed wheat being discharged from the combine. Farmer catches some in his hands. Farmers stand knee-deep in threshed wheat in a truck next to the combine.
A soviet army officer is shown speaking directly to the Soviet citizenry about defending against German aggression. As he speaks, the film shows brief glimpses of Soviet military preparedness. A group of Soviet BT tanks charges across an open field. These are followed by a group of T-26 tanks. Polikarpov I-16 aircraft are seen high overhead in formations. After more views of the army officer speaking, the film shows Soviet BT-5 fast tanks moving across a field. Then a cavalry charge demonstration is shown. That is followed by a glimpse of several Soviet torpedo boats racing through the water in side-by-side formation. Several unidentified Soviet tanks on a field. After more views of the army speaker, more views of cavalry charge and formations of Polikarpov I-16 aircraft in formation flight. A number of Soviet BT-7 tanks advancing toward the camera across a field.
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