With my own eyes (1942)

The Russian steppe, a cart is driving.

An agitator from the commandant's office arrives in the village, passes by a yard where a peasant named Vasily is chopping wood.

The agitator hangs a poster about the wonderful life of peasants in Germany.

Vasily, who comes up, is distrustful and doubts this.

The agitator invites him to go with others on an excursion to Germany to see for himself.

At the commandant's office, he asks a German officer to include Vasily in the excursion group.

The delegates include workers, peasants, and teachers.

Everyone gets on a bus and travels along a compacted dusty track.

Vasily naively asks if there are such good roads in Germany.

The German ironically replies that they do not have such "good" ones.

The route lies from Smolensk to Germany.

Border, a soldier opens the barrier.

Landscapes of Germany, neat houses, children with backpacks going to school.

Asphalted roads.

The first stop is a village that the travelers take for a city.

They stop at a village restaurant and drink beer.

Then they travel by train to Leipzig.

Views of villages and cultivated areas open up from the carriage window.

Everywhere there is order and peaceful work despite the 4th year of the war.

Leipzig station.

A driver from among the excursionists is gazing at a new type of locomotive