The film tells about the beginning of the Cold War, which arose shortly after the Second World War. Used film documents TSGAKFD USSR and foreign newsreels of the following content: Soviet and American soldiers are photographed, exchanging handshakes in the last days of the war; a soldier performs a parody of Hitler; a performance by the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra on November 7, 1945 in honor of the Soviet Union, which defeated fascism; the funeral of US President F. Roosevelt; taking by G. Truman the presidential oath; destroyed cities; Soviet soldiers distribute bread to refugees; convicted Nazi generals at work in prison; the former head of the German missile research center, the creator of the FAU-2 rocket V. Brown in his office at work in the American scientific center; military maneuvers of the US aircraft carrier Roosevelt; the return of Soviet soldiers from the front; the destroyed and rebuilding Dnieper hydroelectric power station; the American delegation visits one of the Soviet collective farms; construction of residential houses in the village; W. Churchill's speech at Fulton on March 5, 1946, which marked the beginning of the Cold War; testing of American nuclear weapons on Bikini Island; fashion models demonstrate bikini swimwear; the aftermath of the UK coal crisis; demonstration of workers in Western Europe; General Secretary of the French Communist Party M. Torez, General Secretary of the Italian Communist Party P. Togliatti and others speak at rallies; British troops enter Athens; imprisoned Greek communists; the speech of US President H. Truman in March 1947, in which he speaks of providing assistance to Greece and Turkey "in view of the Soviet threat"; US economic and military aid to Western European countries under the Marshall Plan; anti-communist demonstration in Rome; dispersal of antiwar demonstrators; training air raid in one of the American cities; the trial of the leaders of the US Communist Party; interviewing witnesses at a meeting of the Commission on the Investigation of Anti-American Activities in Hollywood (synchronously); military exercises and review of NATO troops; Franco-German maneuvers in Koblenz; war criminals of Nazi Germany, including the industrialist Krupp, are released from prison; former Nazi intelligence officer turned CIA, Skorzeny and his family on a walk in Paris; Foreign Minister VM Molotov speaks at a UN meeting; film portraits of A. Fadeev, F. Joliot-Curie, P. Picasso, I. Farge, K. Simonov, P. Neruda, J. Amadou, L. Aragon, E. Cotton; actor N. Cherkasov reads a poem dedicated to the struggle for peace (synchronously); collection of signatures for the 1950 Stockholm Appeal; the consequences of the atomic explosion in Hiroshima and Nagasaki; American planes are bombing a Korean city; American students swear allegiance to the American flag; W. Harriman gives an interview before the premiere of R. Carmen's film "The Great Patriotic War..." [1986]; the stay of French President Charles de Gaulle in Moscow in 1966; Leonid Brezhnev's meetings with French Presidents J. Pompidou, Giscard d'Estaing, with West German President W. Brant, US President R. Nixon; participants of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe sign the Final Act (1975); elections of the Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany K. Adenauer in 1949