A film about the heroic past of Soviet soldiers in the days of the Great Patriotic War and the fighting everyday life of soldiers of our days. Landscape of fields, rivers, forests. Wall of the Brest Fortress. Trenches overgrown with grass. Victory Parade on Red Square. Mausoleum, guest stands. Troops in Red Square. The passage of troops from various fronts. Soldiers throwing German banners (1945). Columns of war veterans in Red Square. Veterans lay flowers at the tomb of the Unknown Soldier. Piskarevskoe cemetery in Leningrad. Chronicles of besieged Leningrad. Monuments to those killed in Volgograd, Brest. Chronicle of the Great Patriotic War: explosions, there are German tanks, burning houses, a woman with a child is crying, a cannon is shooting, the plane is dropping bombs, balloons are in the sky. Searchlight. Home front work during the war. Banner over the Reichstag. Air defense troops locators. Aircraft on the runway, in the air. Refueling the aircraft in the air. Hero of the Soviet Union, pilot N. Kozlov talks with pilots. Rocket train. A plane is taxiing out of the hangars and taking off. A rocket is flying. Remote Control. Rocket launch from a ship, from an airplane, from under the water. The missile shoots down the target. Ships at sea. Submarine. Immersion. Submarine sailors. Tank units. Soldiers in the classroom. Soviet ships in Bangladesh, demining the Suez Canal. Soldiers extinguish the fire, provide assistance to civilians during the flood. Soviet and German soldiers in the Dresden Gallery. Pictures rescued by Soviet soldiers during the war. Flags of countries participating in the Warsaw Pact. Meeting of Defense Ministers. A. Grechko is speaking. The visiting room in the military unit. The soldiers talk with their parents, with the girls in the soldiers' cafe. Celebrating the New Year on a submarine. Frunze Military Academy. Students of the academy in the classroom. Combined arms exercises. A. A. Grechko among the commanders.