Communists (film 1 from the series "The Truth of the Great People") (1982)

Cruiser Aurora, aerial view.

Flag on the bow of the Aurora.

Engine room of the cruiser.

Gun barrel.

Fireworks flashes in the sky.

People on Red Square.

Fireworks over the Kremlin towers.

Illumination on the houses: coats of arms of the USSR and the RSFSR. An orchestra is playing.

Fireworks flashes.

People's faces.

Illumination on the houses: the abbreviation USSR. Fireworks over the Spasskaya Tower.

Changing of the guard of honor at the Lenin Mausoleum.

A crowd of people is gathering in front of the mausoleum.

Panorama of Red Square.

Spasskaya Tower, the chimes are striking.

Chronicle of the early 20th century: V.I. Lenin speaks at the podium.

Cavalry charge.

A train is riding.

Workers with a banner on the roof of the train.

A soldier is returning home.

Field.

The commander-in-chief is walking along the red carpet.

Polar icebreaker.

Rally at a Komsomol construction site.

Session of the 26th Congress of the CPSU. M.A. Ulyanov narrates.

Party cards of revolutionaries.

Dissolve: clouds of smoke, photographs.

Chronicle of 1905: Workers exit the factory building.

A locomotive lets off steam.

Soldiers at the station.

Newspaper pages.

A locomotive whistle.

Soldiers run.

A soldier knocks a coat of arms off the wall.

An article about the abdication of the throne.

Demonstrations and riots in the streets.

A military band marches.

A column of soldiers passes through the gates.

People at the walls of Smolny.

Samples of party cards.

The cruiser Aurora. M.A. Ulyanov narrates.

View of the Neva from the Aurora. M.A. Ulyanov narrates.

Conversation between M.A. Ulyanov and the revolutionary V.P. Vinogradov.

Propaganda poster.

Photograph of V.P. Vinogradov in his youth.

Chronicle of 1917: Demonstration.

Clouds floating across the sky.

Photograph.

Map.

People greeting V.I. Lenin at the station.

Article about V.I. Lenin’s arrival.

Photographs.

People at the demonstration.

Photographs. V.P. Vinogradov. V.P. Vinogradov’s old party card. V.P. Vinogradov talking to factory workers.

Photographs.

Monument to V.I. Lenin. V.P. Vinogradov and M.A. Ulyanov walking to Smolny.

Memorial plaque on the wall of Smolny. M.A. Ulyanov talks to V.P. Vinogradov.

Chronicle of the 1930s: Workers at construction sites.

Factory workers.

Weaver M.Vinogradova at her machine. M.I. Vinogradova and V.N. Golubeva give autographs at a ceremonial event. V.N. Golubeva narrates.

Colleagues congratulate V.N. Golubeva on the early fulfillment of the five-year plan.

Session of the 26th Congress of the CPSU. Applause of the delegates.

View of the rostrum. V.N. Golubeva in the factory workshop. V.N. Golubeva gives a speech.

Applause of the congress delegates.

Chronicle of the 1920s: Party meetings.

Photograph.

Newspaper article. V.I. Lenin's party card. V.I. Lenin's questionnaire.

Interspersed: photographs, narrated by A.V. Justus.

Chronicle of the 1920s: V.I. Lenin.

Photograph.

Pages of the newspaper "Pravda".

Party meeting.

Mechanism of the printing press.

Party card and correspondence of V.I. Lenin.

Train wheels.

Clipping from the newspaper "Pravda".

Locomotive whistle.

Portrait of V.I. Lenin.

Newspaper reports of V.I. Lenin's death.

Funeral procession. N.K. Krupskaya.

People seeing off the leader.

Interspersed: applications for admission to the party, people's faces, people at demonstrations.

Building of the Zamoskvoretsky District Party Committee.

Photograph.

Party card of V.I. Lenin.

Portrait of V.I. Lenin.

Chronicle of the 1930s: Komsomol construction site, people ascending the tribune.

Mechanisms working.

Molten metal pouring.

Workers in mines, in workshops of factories and plants.

Weaver Chistova speaks on the platform.

Applause from congress delegates. M.I. Kalinin and other members of the Politburo speak.

Chronicle of the 1920s: Congress delegates applaud G.K.Ordzhonikidze’s speech.

Tractors drive across a field.

Excerpts from recordings of party meetings.

A train on the railroad.

Photographs by A.D.Tsyurupa.

Workers load logs.

Constitution of the RSFSR, A.D.Tsyurupa’s personal copy.

Characteristic card of S.M.Kirov (Kostrikov) from the V.I.Lenin Museum.

Chronicle of the 1930s: S.M.Kirov at Soviet construction sites.

Speech by S.M.Kirov.

View of the meeting hall from above.

Participants of the rally in the street. M.I.Kalinin, G.K.Ordzhonikidze, I.V.Stalin, A.I.Mikoyan and other members of the Politburo.

Demonstration.

A flag flutters against the background of a construction site.

Group photo, including young L.I.Brezhnev. L.I.Brezhnev's party documents.

Party leaders visiting a plant.

People at rallies.

A barge with cargo sails down the river.

Chronicle of the Great Patriotic War: A German fighter.

Tank tracks crush barbed wire.

Dissolve into: a photograph of a child, soldiers against a map.

A German soldier breaks a window.

A house is collapsing.

Guns are firing, explosions thunder.

Landing of troops on the shore.

Applications for admission to the party.

Dissolve into: a fire is burning, photographs of soldiers in the trenches, an explosion.

The troops are advancing.

Soldiers encourage each other by shaking hands, hugging, kissing.

Personal documents of the dead.

Infantry advance.

A soldier climbs out of a burning tank.

A man in a doorway falls to the floor.

A wounded tanker falls into the snow under fire.

Soldiers run past burning houses.

A gravestone with a soldier's name, no surname.

A soldier pulls a wounded comrade out of the water.

A woman takes a party card out of her tunic pocket.

A wounded soldier on the battlefield.

Burnt and bullet-riddled party cards.

Landing on the shore (forcing the Dnieper on September 25, 1943). M. Balmagambetov at a machine gun.

Soldiers deliver mail and shake M. Balmagambetov's hand. M. Balmagambetov hides the letter on his chest and adjusts his uniform. M. Balmagambetov's family talks to journalists, shows photographs.

Alternation: gunfire, explosions, photographs, documents, soldiers.

Fragment of the "Motherland Calls!" monument in Volgograd.

Chronicle of the Great Patriotic War: A commander rouses soldiers to attack.

A destroyed house, a soldier in a doorway (showing in the opposite direction).

Removing fascist symbols from rooftops.

Photo by G.Tarasenko.

Panorama of the city.

Sunset over the forest.

People admiring the sunset.

People sitting on the curb near the fountain.

A family meeting a young mother at the maternity hospital.

People on the city streets.

Clouds over a field.

A girl picking poppies.

Panorama of Mamayev Kurgan in Volgograd.

Fragments of the monument-ensemble "To the Heroes of the Battle of Stalingrad".

An elderly woman brings flowers to the monument.

Flowers at the Eternal Flame.

Cars drive across the square.

The G.G. Khudyakov family near a rural home: a woman with a stroller, a man helps his son get on a bicycle. G.G. Khudyakov joins the party and places his party card into the cover of his father’s.

People on the streets of cities.

Paris, Place Charles de Gaulle (Place of the Star), view of the Arc de Triomphe, heavy traffic.

A Parisian answers a journalist’s questions.

People on the streets of cities.

A summer cafe on the square.

A resident of Germany answers a journalist’s questions.

Traffic on the streets of Madrid.

An excerpt from an interview with an elderly Spaniard.

The streets of New York.

A journalist visiting an American family.

An American discusses patterns and stereotypes.

Moscow, view of Red Square, a queue to the Lenin Mausoleum.

Faces of passers-by.

Builders in hard hats.

Flower sellers.

A group of workers walking across the territory of a factory.

View of the territory of the Moscow Electromechanical Plant named after V.I. Lenin.

In the courtyard of the plant there is a monument to the leader.

Memorial plaque.

Open party meeting of workers.

Tester A. Seleznev in the shop.

Faces of workers at the meeting.

The leader of the meeting speaks. A. Seleznev answers questions from colleagues. M.A. Ulyanov among the workers.

Chronicle of the early 20th century: Clouds are floating across the sky.

Rough seas.

A drawing of London.

Documents of the 2nd Congress of the RSDLP. The barriers are closing.

Portrait of V.I. Lenin.

Pages of the newspaper "Iskra".

Railway traffic.

Fragments of the painting "Lenin's Speech at the 2nd Congress of the RSDLP".

Photographs.

A drawing of London.

Minutes of the 3rd Congress of the RSDLP. Alternation: drawings, handwritten texts of the minutes.

Moscow Electromechanical Plant named after V.I. Lenin, an open party meeting. A. Seleznev answers questions from colleagues.

Faces of workers.

Trekhgornaya Manufactory named after F.E. Dzerzhinsky (Trekhgorka), an open party meeting.

View of the rostrum.

Faces of the weaving shop employees.

Weaver E.I. Poryadina. M.A. Ulyanov talks with E.I. Poryadina, the team laughs and applauds. E.I. Poryadina walks down the street with her friends. 26th Congress of the CPSU, view from above into the hall.

Congress delegates talk during a break between sessions.

Alternation: delegates at the congress and at their workplaces.

View from above into the hall, at the meeting of people.

Pages of the Pravda newspaper.

Panorama of fields.

Tractor wheel, a group of people in a field. V.A. Mikulich talks with machine operators.

Tractors harrow the land. V.A. Mikulich talks with milkmaids.

A herd of cows in a field. V.A. Mikulich with collective farmers among the cows.

A meeting of the Minsk Regional Committee bureau is underway. V.A. Mikulich chairs the meeting, heads of collective farms and state farms report on the work done.

A meeting of the Minsk Regional Committee Bureau is underway. V.A. Mikulich chairs the meeting, heads of collective and state farms report on the work done. V.A. Mikulich in the field accompanied by colleagues.

Photo by A.V. Gitalov.

Panoramas of the fields. A.V. Gitalov rides a motorcycle.

Photographs by A.V. Gitalov.

Monument to A.V. Gitalov (Kirovograd region, Novoukrainsky district, Kamyshevatoe village).

A Kolos grain harvester is moving across the field.

Machine operators are setting up the combine.

Chronicle of the 1960s: A.V. Gitalov speaks at the podium, negotiating with L.I. Brezhnev.

Alternation: agricultural work in the fields, photographs of A.V. Gitalov, fragments of A.V. Gitalov's speech.

Faces of the congress delegates.

The hall applauds. A.V. Gitalov on the stand.

Grain harvesters "Niva" are moving across the field.

Harvesting work in progress in the fields (shot from an airplane).

A worker rakes away grain.

Night shift of combine operators.

Harvested grain pours into the back of a truck.

The 1st secretary of the district committee V.S. Bocharov tells the story.

A combine goes across the field.

View of the field from the cabin. V.S. Bocharov talks with colleagues.

Red flag above the combine.

Harvested grain pours into the back of a truck.

Interchange: harvesting continues, excerpts from an interview with V.S. Bocharov Panorama of the fields. V.S. Bocharov with workers.

Collective farmers greet guests with bread and salt.

Workers at construction sites in the USSR and at rallies.

Panorama of Moscow, view of the Kremlin.

Kremlin Palace of Congresses, joint ceremonial meeting of the CPSU Central Committee, the Supreme Soviet of the USSR and the RSFSR on December 21, 1982 on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the formation of the USSR. Report by Yu. V. Andropov.

Panorama of the hall.

Presentation of party cards to young people by veterans of the party movement, mutual handshakes and congratulations.

Panorama of the Kremlin.

Alternation: delegates of the 26th Congress of the CPSU at the congress and at their workplaces.

Helicopter in the rays of the sunset.

Harvesting.

View of the dam of the State District Power Station.

Laying the railroad track.

A man climbing a ladder.

A girl’s face.

A pilot in the cockpit.

A border guard at his post.

A seamstress-motorist.

An elderly woman, a veteran of the Great Patriotic War.

Miners.

The cruiser Aurora.

Congratulations from the workers.

A fisherman with a trawl.

Workers walking across the field.

Cotton harvesting.

A girl’s face.

Yu. A. Gagarin.

Panorama of the Kremlin.

Chronicle of the early 20th century: V. I. Lenin speaking to the workers.

The people greeting the leader.