Patterns of development of the world socialist system (1982)

Stills from a feature film: The cruiser Aurora.

A salvo.

A crowd runs to Palace Square.

Cartoon: the spread of socialism in the world.

Residents greet the military.

Volunteer units march through the streets.

A bell rings.

Anti-fascist demonstrations.

People run through the street.

View from a window.

Dead on the sidewalk.

People carry bodies off the street.

A tank turns around at an intersection.

Soviet troops on the streets of Prague.

Demonstration participants.

Refugees.

Crowds of people.

A man at the microphone on the podium.

Rally participants.

A man throws newspapers into the crowd.

Land surveyors.

A handful of earth in their hands.

Agricultural machinery in the yard.

Collective farmers greet their leaders. F.V.R.Pik addresses the people. G.M.Dimitrov on the podium.

Map of Europe.

Split screen: map, footage of the rally in the center.

Split screen: footage of the rally on the map.

Countries of East Asia on the map.

Vietnamese soldiers.

A soldier holding flowers.

Residents greeting the soldiers.

Flags above the crowd.

Politicians concluding an agreement.

Newspapers sold on the street.

A man reading a newspaper.

Photograph.

Newspaper articles.

Participants in a rally.

Leaflet in hands.

People greeting each other.

Transfer of Soviet agricultural machinery.

People riding a tractor.

Delivery of Soviet wheat to Croatia, the doors of the wagon opening.

Unloading wheat.

Printing house.

Issue of the Pravda newspaper.

Interspersed: CMEA buildings in different countries, CMEA meetings.

Uzhgorod Hotel.

Poster above the entrance.

Cartoon: countries of the world socialist commonwealth. "World Socialist Commonwealth".

People walking past the entrance to the building.

Fragments of political meetings. "Comprehensive rapprochement of the socialist countries, their fraternal cooperation and mutual assistance." Interspersed: people with flowers and flags, meetings of politicians.

Fragments of meetings.

Students in class.

Conference of scientists.

City streets.

Theatre.

Baskets of flowers being brought onto the stage.

Applause from the audience.

Exhibition.

People walking past posters.

Government motorcade.

People waving flags.

Meeting of the participants of the Inter-Cosmos programme.

International socialist division of labour.

Launching of ships.

Applause from the crowd.

Opening of the Kremikovskiy Iron and Steel Works.

Production processes.

Machine tool production in Czechoslovakia.

Chemical plant in the GDR. A man riding an electric car.

Bulgarian electric cars.

Forklifts in front of the building.

Forklifts working in the port.

Hungarian Ikarus buses.

View from the bus window.

Entrance to the bridge (view from the cabin).

New buses in the parking lot.

Production of Hungarian electrical equipment for Zhiguli.

New cars driving onto railway platforms.

Development of economic integration.

Industrial facilities.

XXV session of the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance.

Comprehensive programme in different languages.

Industrial construction.

Transcontinental oil pipeline "Druzhba".

Workers walk on the site.

The drilling pump is working.

Construction of the pipeline.

Petrochemical plant in Schweppes.

Chemical plant in Bratislava.

Plants under construction.

Orenburg gas pipeline (aerial shot).

Tractor delivers pipes.

Cartoons: contribution of the Commonwealth countries to construction.

Workers.

Man walking along the pipe.

Bulldozer.

Welder.

National flags. "Tendency towards creation of a single world economy of socialist countries".

Alternation: high-voltage power lines, central dispatch control in Prague.

Specialists of the Dubna Research Center of Fraternal Countries. "Fast and sustainable rates of economic growth and systematic nature of its development".

Cartoon: growth of industrial output in the CMEA countries.

Advertisements at gas stations.

People towing a car.

Cartoon: growth of labor productivity in the CMEA countries.

CMEA meeting.

Stock exchange trading.

Meeting in the Kremlin. L.I. Brezhnev on the podium.

Construction work. "Equalization of the levels of economic, political and cultural development of the socialist countries".

Oxen plowing the land.

Horses turning the wheels.

A bucket of water rises from a well.

A man pours water into a trough.

Horses' legs, millstones turning.

A caravan of yaks in the steppe.

Mongolian yurt.

A family in a yurt.

Politicians signing documents.

Demonstration.

Construction of the Erdenet Mining and Processing Plant in Mongolia.

Workers at the plant.

Mining.

Cuban slums.

Children on the street.

A man demolishes a house.

Children stand in the doorway.

View of the building from under the bridge.

Schoolchildren in class.

Students walking across the yard.

Harvesting sugar cane.

City residents. "Joint defense of the gains of socialism from attacks by external and internal enemies".

Views of Warsaw.

Warsaw Pact.

State flags.

Photography.

Meeting of ministers.

Flags. D.F. Ustinov.

Soviet soldiers.

Artillery guns.

Fighter jet takeoff.

Aircraft carrier in the ocean (aerial footage).

Headquarters under camouflage net.

Infantry fighting vehicle.

Command post.

Fighter jets in the sky.

Flip in the air (aircraft footage).

Soldiers exiting a helicopter.

Soldiers running through a smoke screen.

The commission observes the exercises.

Demonstration in Beijing.

Politicians on the tribune.

A poster on the street. V.M. Blumenthal at a meeting with Chinese politicians.

Vietnamese refugees.

A small child.

Refugees leaving the ruined city.

Soldiers training.

The US flag in front of the Capitol building.

Photographs.

Inscription on a tank.

Loading a container onto a ship.

Freight car.

Freight train on the railroad. 26th Congress of the CPSU. L.I. Brezhnev at the microphone.

Demonstration participants.

Panorama of Red Square.