The President of France Is a Guest of the USSR

Newsreel. Children are crying, buildings are crumbling. Ruined city of Paris. Anti-aircraft guns are shooting. The plane is falling. C. de Gaulle. Jubilant people on Red Square. Moscow city. Solemn meeting at the Vnukovo airport of the President of France. Charles de Gaulle and his entourage are getting out of the plane. Among the greeters: N. V. Podgorny, A. N. Kosygin, D. S. Polyansky. Speakers N. V. Podgorny and Charles de Gaulle (synchronously). An honorary escort moves through the streets of Moscow. Muscovites welcome the guest. Kremlin. Receptions at N. V. Podgorny, A. N. Kosygin. Conversation. Participants: C. de Gaulle, C. de Murville, F. Bode, A. A. Gromyko, A. N. Kosygin, L. I. Brezhnev, N. V. Podgorny. Madame de Gaulle examines the historical monuments of the Kremlin. Charles de Gaulle visits the Bolshoi Theater, where he watches S. Prokofiev's ballet Romeo and Juliet; Moscow State University. Meeting with students in the assembly hall. They say C. de Gaulle, I. G. Petrovsky (synchronously). City Novosibirsk. Meeting at the airport. C. de Gaulle, N. V. Podgorny passing through the streets of the city, going to Akademgorodok. Inspecting the laboratories of the Institute of Nuclear Physics. Charles de Gaulle at the Sibelektrotyazhmash plant talks with workers, inspects the plant. The city of Leningrad. Views of the city, embankments, avenues. Says a member of the French resistance, scientist K. K. Khazanovich (synchronously). A car with Charles de Gaulle is going by. Greetings from the townspeople. The French President visited the church, the Hermitage, Petrodvorets, and the Piskarevskoye Memorial Cemetery. Newsreel. Siege of Leningrad. C. de Gaulle and his entourage visited the Leningrad Metallurgical Plant. The city of Kiev. Types of streets, the Dnieper river. Reception at D. S. Korotchenko. The city of Volgograd. Streets, Mamaev Kurgan. Visit to the Museum of Military Glory. Newsreel. 1944 year. Charles de Gaulle presents French orders to Soviet military leaders. C. de Gaulle talks with Marshal N. N. Voronov. C. de Gaulle and AN Kosygin visiting the Volga hydroelectric power station named after the XXII Congress of the CPSU. Moscow city. C. de Gaulle and Marshal R. Ya. Malinovsky visit the Taman Guards Division, attend tactical exercises. The French President lays a wreath at the building of the former French military mission, the pilots of the Normandie-Niemen regiment. Newsreel. Flying plane. The plane is shooting, it is on fire. Kremlin. Foreign Ministers of the USSR and France A. A. Gromyko and K. de Murville, N. V. Podgorny and Charles de Gaulle sign Soviet-French documents. Charles de Gaulle speaks on Soviet television. Travels by car to the airport. Muscovites welcome the French president along the way. Seeing C. de Gaulle at the airport.

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Text by K. Bakshi, sound by E. Umansky