Opening titles in Russian. Soviet flag flying in Moscow, followed by various shots of world representatives and leaders convening for the World Congress of Peace Forces of 1973 (woman in fur coat, Russian Orthodox priests, Chinese man, Buddhist monk, African men walking into building, shaking hands inside; footage of congress speakers shown, including an address by Leonid Brezhnev. Delegates hold hands.
World War I Montage: Man playing marching snare drum; American, Japanese and German troops marching separately; Cannon firing into camera; Battle footage on front (explosions, trenches, advances, injured); traveling shot of cemetery, cross grave markers as far as the eye can see.
The October Revolution of 1917: rallies, crowds, Bolshevik soldiers, Vladimir Lenin in crowd and waving to camera, Bolshevik marches calling for peace.
Newsreel from Conference of Genoa, Italy 1922, in which representatives of 34 countries including Russia & Germany convened to discuss the reconstruction of European finance and commerce: footage of failed meeting called for disarmament to which the Soviets sent a representative: delegates enter, debate, leave building; shot of Russian representative Georgi Chicherin.
Nazi infantry troops marching, tanks rolling. Delegation from the Soviet Union speaking at meeting of the League of Nations, failing to come up with policy for stopping German proliferation. Nazi soldiers opening border gate. German soldiers marching in occupied territories, some beaming into camera. Faces of occupied peoples. Nazi battalion passing through Arc de Triomphe after invasion of Paris. Nazi soldiers with Iron Cross flag.
Montage of Germany invading the Soviet Union 1941, followed by montage of Russian soldiers deploying for front followed by soldiers returning home, women bestowing them with kisses and flowers.
Montage of Russian troops liberating concentration camps, carrying out surviving children and opening gates. General George S. Patton and aides walking with Russian (Soviet) counterparts, April 1945. Russian (Soviet) and American soldier shaking hands.
Formation of the United Nations: shots of national flags flying outside building; delegates arrive, shake hands, INT shots; panning name plates of countries. EXT shots UN Building.
Map depicting American military installations beginning to to surround the USSR. Strange red & white shots of jet fighters taking off from carrier. United Armed Forces of the Warsaw Treaty Members convening.
Soviet military parade, missile carriers and launchers traveling through Red Square. Cut to memorial World War Two monuments in the USSR, enormous sculptures of powerful men and women; emotional people pay their respects.
Elderly woman visits memorial statues. Shots of various people, including Leonis Brezhnev, signing the Stockholm Appeal of the World Peace Council.
Red Square, parade running through it; shots of marchers marches carrying red banners and images of Marx and Lenin and even Brezhnev.
Soviet Congress in 1976, delegates meeting, talking in hall; Leonid Brezhnev speaks to the Congress. Parade and marchers in Red Square.
Vietnam War montage: ARVN soldier turning to camera; quick jet fighter in flight; slow-motion bomber deploying bombs that spread wings; air to air shot of bombs falling from belly of bomber; American soldiers setting fire to hut; GIs checking suspected Viet Cong; Vietnamese women & children crying; ARVN or N. Vietnamese soldier aiming anti-aircraft gun, followed by astounding shot of a jet fighter being blown out of the sky by missile.
B&W anti-war protestors march (banner reads, Stop the Death in Vietnam); American veterans throw their medals in objection to the war on the steps of the Capitol Building. Color shot of the Arc de Triomphe, cars passing through it. Cut to signing of Peace Treaty in Paris, 1972. Color shot crowd of happy communist Vietnamese people applauding; young Vietnamese girl bottle feeding baby.
B&W Middle East montage: Crying Arab woman; Arab men, one of whom wears a cowl, running from bombs; great air to air subjective POV aerial combat shots; dead bodies in street; Israeli troops and officers marching through invaded territories; Israeli police kicking down down of Palestinian refugee home; displaced Arab people; the narrator says that Israel is responsible for this. Shots of PLO leader Yasir Arafat (Yasser Arafat) meeting with Soviet Prime Minister Leonid Brezhnev. Color shots Arabs greeting Brezhnev and entourage at airport..
WWII mass devastation and destruction of European cities. Buildings and cities in ruin.
Neo-Fascist gathering in Europe; people arriving, people speaking at event.
Images of Soviet Union's positive effect on post war Europe.
Former French President Charles de Gaulle addressing crowd from a balcony in Moscow, in Russian he proclaims ""long live Moscow, long live Russia".
Soviet leaded Leonid Brezhnev in Paris, France: bills posted on walls, Leonid in motorcade, then meeting cheering workers and enthusiastic leaders.
B&W newsreel Leonid Brezhnev meeting with West German leaders. Color shots outdoor rally in Moscow.
High angle zooming White House. Military personnel in crowd. Various shots of Leonid Brezhnev in Washington, DC; he shakes hands with people in a large surrounding crowd; Richard Nixon in some shots.
Footage of European Conference on Security and Peace in Helsinki (Helsinki Accords): various world leaders, including Brezhnev, President Gerald Ford and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger arrive; shots of Ford & Brezhnev signing accord; media covering event. Various shots young people in streets scenes; observation deck of Empire State Building; getting picture taken before the Eiffel Tower.
Footage of military facility, missile in hangar, nuclear explosion (mushroom cloud) and the blowing of fir trees in nuclear wind.
Color of people manning the emergency communication line between the Soviet Union, France and U.S. to avert an accidental Nuclear war. President Gerald Ford, wearing several layers of fur coats and hats, walking with what appears to be Henry Kissinger. Newsreel of Ford and Leonid Brezhnev meeting in Vladivistok on arms control issue (d tente). B&W newsreel of Brezhnev meeting with Secretary of State Cyrus Vance - the narrator says this meeting was not as successful as others as the Americans had not honored earlier agreements.
Color Newsreel of peace meeting in Helsinki. B&W footage of NATO generals meeting, followed by shots of West German military control room, radar dish spinning, jet fighters (with the Iron Cross on both wing and underbelly) and tanks, and border patrols.
EXT and INT shots of the United Nations building; shots of delegates and such. Montage conflict between colonizers and oppressed in Africa: anti-colonial marches and banners ("This is Genocide," reads one); police patrolling streets, beating anti-apartheid protesters in South Africa; French police patrolling Algeria; etc. Color shots of military parade in Angola. Cut to Mozambique President Saora Machel speaking, attending at pro-Soviet rally.
Various shots of Soviet industry: oil workers, oil and gas refineries, welding, computer rooms, TV factory, automobile factory, etc. Followed by images of Soviet industrial assistance to foreign countries; industry in Turkey is shown; a trade negotiation is signed; shots of cars being loaded onto a freighter ship.
Rocket on launch pad, sun rising in BG. Brief images of joint Soviet-American space mission (Soyuz-Apollo flight)- rocket launch, astronauts & cosmonauts shaking hands in space. Film closes with CUs smiling Soviet peoples. Credits roll.