The film tells about the peaceful foreign policy of the USSR, aimed at detente, mutual understanding and cooperation with other countries, about the creative work of the Soviet people. Birch branch; daisies in the field, tulips. Graduates are walking along Red Square. The guys are around the fire. Frames of the military chronicle. A shell explodes. The cannon shoots. Soldiers are running. Airplanes are flying. Burning, destroyed houses. They carry the wounded on a stretcher. Women are crying. Eternal flame. People lay flowers. Construction of hydroelectric power plants. Melting steel. Combines in the field. Foreign guests in the USSR. Guests are greeted with "bread and salt". Moscow city. Foreign guests on Red Square, at the plant. "Olympics-80" in Moscow, carry the Olympic bear. Space pavilion at VDNKh. The rocket takes off. Yuri Gagarin is talking on the phone, passing by by car. Physical laboratory. Physicists are at work. American delegation in Leningrad. American schoolgirl Samantha Smith in the USSR. American military bases. Armored vehicles are going by. Airplanes, rockets take off. Anti-war demonstrations: in Greece, Great Britain, France, USA, Japan. Atomic explosion over Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Meeting of the Congress of the World Assembly in Prague. Frames of the military chronicle. The liberation of Prague by Soviet soldiers during the Second World War. Victory Day May 9. Veterans are passing by. Monuments to Soviet soldiers in Brest, Volgograd, the tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Moscow.