The episode is dedicated to the events of the first five-year plan and mass collectivization, tells about millions of peasants sacrificed to industrialization, about the creation of a regime of total terror in relation to the peasantry, intelligentsia, clergy, about the silence of representatives of the Western intelligentsia. The finale of the film is the 17th Party Congress, which established the regime of personal power of I.V. Stalin.
PNR based on the paintings in the halls of the Tretyakov Gallery, Malyutin's painting "Lunch of the Artel" The film includes footage from newsreels from 1930-1934: the trial of the Promparty (the court headed by A. Ya.
Vyshinsky, the accused speak in front of a microphone), the funeral of the chairman of the GPU V. R. Menzhinsky, the heads of the GPU departments are standing at the coffin, I. V. Stalin, V. M. Molotov, M. M. Litvinov are walking along the territory of the Kremlin, I. V. Stalin, V. M. Molotov, G. K. Ordzhonikidze, A. S. Yenukidze are walking to the tribune of the Mausoleum, on the tribune, tanks are passing, cars with spotlights are driving along Red Square during the parade on November 7, columns of demonstrators are walking, the wheat harvest is being harvested, the French politician E. Herriot meets with Soviet writers in Moscow, workers - shock workers at their machines, the Parade Athletes on the square near the Winter Palace in Leningrad, political prisoners work on the construction of the White Sea Canal.
Germany, National Socialists greet A. Hitler.
A steamship sails past New York.
The 17th Party Congress, I.V. Stalin speaks from the rostrum, those present applaud standing up, congress delegates dance folk dances in the hall, among them is Marshal S.M. Budyonny, the Chairman of the Central Executive Committee of the USSR M.I. Kalinin, the Chairman of the State Planning Committee of the USSR V.V. Kuibyshev, the People's Commissar of Defense of the USSR K.E. Voroshilov, the Secretary of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) S.M. Kirov, the People's Commissar of Heavy Industry of the USSR G.K. Ordzhonikidze, the People's Commissar of Transport of the USSR A.A. Andreyev, the presidium of the congress, the congress delegates disperse, demonstrators with banners reading "
Our beloved comrade Stalin"
march through the streets of Moscow under the rays of searchlights in the darkness.
Highest state bodies and institutions, Court, Prosecutor's Office, Cultural connections, VKP(b), Industry, Shock work, Collectivization of agriculture, Cities, Painting, Museums, Repressions, Political propaganda, agitation
1934