An Unbreakable Friendship

Moscow city. Kremlin. February 14, 1950. The signing of a treaty of friendship and mutual assistance between the USSR and the PRC. Present: JV Stalin, Mao Tse Tung, AI Mikoyan, A. Ya. Vyshinsky, Zhou En-lai and others. November 14-16, 1957. St. George Hall of the Kremlin. The signing of the declaration of representatives of the communist and workers' parties. Among the signers: W. Ulbricht, Mao Tse Tung, V. Gomulka, Ho Chi Minh, Kim Il Sung, Y. Kadar, Nikita Khrushchev. 1959 year. The building of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR. Delegates to the XXI Congress of the CPSU in the hall. Nikita Khrushchev speaks on the podium. Nikita Khrushchev welcomes Chou En-lai. Beijing city. 1956 year. Eighth Congress of the CPC. Delegates in the hall. Among the guests are A. I. Mikoyan, E. A. Furtseva and others. Mao Tse Tung speaking. August 1958. The Soviet delegation headed by Nikita Khrushchev at the negotiating table, among those present: Mao Tse Tung. Demonstration of workers in Beijing in honor of the 5th anniversary of the formation of the PRC. KE Voroshilov at an aviation festival in China. The streets of the town. An ancient temple. Monument to the fallen Soviet soldiers in China. Harvesting in one of the collective farms. Work on agricultural machinery. Construction of a bridge over the Yanzi River. Anshansk Metallurgical Combine. Manufacturing processes. View of the new railway line. A worker at the machine at a silk-spinning factory. The work of miners, shipbuilders. People's faces. The building of the USSR Academy of Sciences. Joint meeting of Soviet and Chinese scientists. Speech by Academician A. N. Nesmeyanov. Moscow region. The city of Dubna. Joint Institute for Nuclear Research. Academician V.I. Veksler and Professor Wang Gang-chan in the laboratory of the institute. Moscow city. Institute of Thoracic Surgery. Soviet and Chinese doctors are performing heart surgery. Soviet and Chinese students in the classroom, in the laboratories of Moscow State University. Moscow Conservatory. International Tchaikovsky Piano Competition. The winner of the competition pianist Liu-Shi-Kun is playing. Demonstration of workers in Red Square. On the podium of the Mausoleum NS Khrushchev, R. Ya. Malinovsky and others. Members of the Chinese delegation led by Mao Tse Tung are among the guests. Soviet specialists and Chinese workers are restoring the Changchun railway, building the Changchun automobile plant, and constructing a dam on the Yellow River. Chinese trainees work at the Likhachev Moscow Automobile Plant, at one of the metallurgical plants in the Urals, at the Kirov Plant in Leningrad. Production processes in workshops. A Soviet officer reads out an order in front of a line of soldiers leaving China and returning to their homeland. Soviet-Chinese border. Cars are going by. is a train. Selling consumer goods in a Chinese store. Tour of the USSR State Folk Dance Ensemble in China. Speech by Soviet artists. City Novosibirsk. Theater building. Soviet dancers perform the precious Lotus Lantern ballet to the music of the Chinese composer Chang-Xiao-Hu. Port Arthur city (Lushun city). Local residents and Soviet sailors plant trees.

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1959