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SUMMARY: Reel 2: CU, Bas-relief Russian plaque. AV, Ukrainian city (unidentified). Parade of Ukrainian peopled some in native costumes. Women and children carry banners, give Communist salute as they pass Stalin. AV, High pan, City of Kiev streets, buildings and monuments. High shot, mass calisthenics drill. AV, parade of Ukrainian people, women in native costume carry bouquets. Pan, Fruit orchard. CU, branches and blossoms. German plane in flight drops bombs. Explosion as bombs hit earth. VS, burning farmhouses villages. CU, cattle field and haystacks on fire. VS, mass exodus of Ukrainian people cattle and machinery from bombed rural areas. CU, Village in background. Huge column of black smoke rises. German soldiers race across field. German soldier kicks in farmhouse door. Rear view, Field Marshal Goering walks up road with other German officers. CU, two buzzards on top of haystack. Goering enters farmhouse. MCU, Goering smiling, exits. MCU, Goering walks past farmhouse. Population of Kiev, Kharkov and Odessa prepare barricades. VS, city streets with sandbag barricades, Russian soldiers traverse camouflaged anti- aircraft gun, civilians move forward for battle in truck. AV, German fighter planes peel off for attack. CU, AA gun in action. VS, Destruction in city of Odessa. VS, Civilians clear rubble caused by bombing. Soldiers embark on transport in retreat. Cruiser "Red Ukraine" covers retreat. VS, Russian retreat from Ukraine halted by seasonal rain. Men and equipment in retreat. MCU, Horses attempt to pull equipment through muddy, slippery terrain, bottleneck of equipment shown. VS, Town in flames. AV, City of Moscow. CU, Stalin. AV, Red Square. VS, Urals ext and int scenes steel mills, weapons factory, armament manufacturers. Short scenes: Russian tanks advance over snow covered terrain, soldiers follow on foot. CU, bombs drop on city. Destroyed German tanks. Snow covered graves of German soldiers, other fallensoldiers lie dead on ground covered with windswept snow. AV, Masses of dead German soldiers. MCU, Germans drag their dead to open pit. Huge pile of helmets.