These Are Fighting Men R1 of ?

These Are Fighting Men R1 of ? Leningrad Popular Science Film Studios English narration Countryside scenes, planes fly over. INT paratrooper cadets ready to jump. View from back of plane as cadets jump. Jump 00:22:12 Title: These Are Fighting Men. 00:22:47 Teenage conscripts interviewed by draft board re background; first boy welcomed to Soviet Army - another persuaded to join Navy. 00:25:05 Draftees having last cigarette & say good-bye to family & girlfriends - teary-eyed women. Guitar player & singing. Talking, kisses. CUs. Conscripts enter base. 00:26:11 Military exercises - tanks thru forest; MIG fighter planes - heavy artillery firing. Tanks along road. 00:27:01 Conscripts put on uniforms - VO “In two years time, the Army must turn these clumsy-looking youngsters into real fighting men” 00:27:16 CU clock at 7 am. Recruits woken in dormitory - out of bed. EXT zoom out to show training yard full of shirtless recruits on various pieces of equipment - pull-up bars etc. Group lifting log; boy does pull-ups - drill sergeant nearby. INT athletic training in gymnasium - very fit-looking recruit swinging on hand bars. Rope climbing. 00:28:37 Recruits in “tank seasoning” exercise like playing ‘chicken’ - shoot at fast approaching tank from trench across path - slow motion & ducking as tank rolls over trench - VO “That is how bravery is developed”. Astonishing shots of recruit laying on open field & ducking head at last moment as tank rolls over him. Recruits hiding in trees jump onto passing tank convoy, rip off radio aerial & shoot inside tank - crewman dragged out. 00:30:59 Commander gives recruits appraisal of tank attack exercise as they have a cigarette. Russia / USSR; Cold War; Conscription; Military Service; Recruiting; Training Film; NOTE: R2 may precede this on tape.