A Night Over China.

A Night Over China. , 1971 (53:36)

Annotation: The film exposes the traitorous course of Maoism.

Film description: The film tells the assistance of the USSR and other socialist countries, China, the "treacherous" policy of Mao Zedong and the Maoists, the Red Guards, the militarization and aggressive foreign policy of China. Used film-documents TSGAKFD USSR, GFF and foreign newsreel follows: landscapes of China, historical and architectural monuments, a Buddhist temple; Kosygin meeting with Mao Zedong in Beijing, one of the demonstrators at the gates of the Soviet Embassy, the funeral of Soviet border guards who were killed after fire Chinese outposts Ussuriiskaya; Leonid Brezhnev's speech at the XXIV Congress of the CPSU (synchronous); agricultural work in China before and after the revolution; VIII Congress of the CPS: Speeches of Mao Zedong and Liu Shaoqi, delegates at the meeting, guests of the Congress A. Mikoyan, Walter Ulbricht, D. Ibarruri, M. Reiman; Reconstruction of Anshan Iron and Steel Works, the construction of steel plant in Wuhan, a cement plant in Chancy, a sugar factory and car factory in Changchun with the USSR; installation of the turbine with the help of specialists from Czechoslovakia to Shansousskoy power, transfer of expertise by the Chinese Soviet peasants; destruction of sparrows in Beijing; homemade blast furnaces and steel production in them, swim, Mao Zedong on the Yangtze River, the Red Guards march with quotations, people sit in the square waved and quotations; statue of Buddha, pictures, posters pasted by Maoist; photos burning books and the destruction of monuments of Mao's Red Guard, Army doctrine PRC Chinese children playing in the war, the war in Vietnam; IX Congress of the CCP: Delegates at the meeting, the statement of Mao Zedong, Lin Biao in the presidium.

Source description 1: Chinese landscapes.
The Chinese Wall.
Stone statues along the roads.
Camels are passing by.
Old city streets, a pagoda.
A Buddha statue and other statues in the temple.
Rickshaws in the streets.
Junks and other boats on the river.
The monument to the Red Army soldiers from the Chinese Battalion of the 292 International Derbent Regiment perished during the fights for the Soviet [People’s Council] Power near the Cossack village of Morozovskaya in June 1919.
The large epigraph on the monument.
The monument to the Soviet Army soldiers killed perished during the liberation of China from Japanese occupants in 1945.
A wreath is being carried to the monument.
Chinese officers, citizens and pioneers are standing beside the monument.
The city.
Demonstrates are carrying by a sculpture and a portrait of Mao Tse Tung.
The IX Congress of the Communist Party of China.
Mao Tse Tung's deputy and successor Lin Biao is making a speech.
The audience is applauding and shouting.
The Kremlin.
Soviet newspapers are being thumbed.
Posters devoted to the Soviet-Chinese friendship.
Beijing newspapers are being thumbed; they contain articles with abuse and libel against the CPSU (Communist Party of the Soviet Union) and the Soviet Government.
The visit of the Chairman of the USSR Council of Ministers Alexey Kosygin to the city of Beijing in 1965 – Soviet-Chinese negotiations, Alexey Kosygin, Mao Tse Tung are sitting.
The ceremony of seeing off Alexey Kosygin at the airport.
Chinese’ riotous behavior at the Soviet Embassy gates in Beijing.
A Soviet car deformed and covered with hostile posters and newspapers.
The funeral of the Soviet frontier guards killed at the Soviet-Chinese border.
Soviet frontier guards are suppressing outraging Chinese during the frontier provocative activities at the Ussuri River.
The building and the Hall of the Kremlin Palace of Congresses during the XXIV CPSU Congress.
Leonid Brezhnev is making a report.
A landscape with the Chinese Wall.
The hard work of peasants – they are plowing by oxen, harnessing themselves.
Peasants are at the meeting held after the Revolution, judging landlords.
Peasants are becoming the owners of horses, land, working on their own fields.
Harvesting cereals with mowers.
Construction of an industrial enterprise during the first Chinese five year plan.
Chinese experts are at the table.
A picture of former experts, scientists who have become victims of the “Maoist” repressions and plots.
Beijing.
Guests from fraternal socialist countries are going to the opening of the VII CPC (Communist Party of China) (1956).
Anastas Mikoyan (a Soviet statesman), Dolores Ibarruri (a Spanish Communist Leader), Mikhail Reiman (a Soviet statesman), Walter Ulbriht (a German Communist Leader) and others are passing by.

Source description 2: The Presidium and the Hall during the opening of the VIII CPC Congress.
Mao Tse Tung is making a report.
The applauding audience.
A picture of Mao Tse Tung.
The reconstruction of the Anshan Metallurgical Integrated Plant equipped with Soviet machinery.
The mark “UZTM” [“Ural Heavy Engineering Plant” ] on the piece of equipment.
Soviet and Chinese experts in the workshop.
The exteriors workshops of the Uhan Metallurgical Integrated Plant.
The first melting – steel is pouring.
The oldest Russian metal-maker A.I.Padurov, who has become the head of the brigade consisting of 250 Soviet engineers, foremen and technicians in China, is congratulating a Chinese foreman with the first melting.
A picture: Padurov and Mao Tse Tung.
Construction of a cement factory in the city of Shangsi under the project by GDR (German Democratic Republic) and with their help.
A group of Chinese and Polish experts who have built the sugar mill is standing.
The work at the factory.
Czech power engineers are mounting a powerful turbine at the Shansou Electric Power Station.
Construction of industrial enterprises.
In the morning Chinese workers who are being trained in Moscow are going to work to the Moscow Automobile Plant named after Likhachyov (a former director of the Moscow Automobile Plant), working in shop floors, in designing departments under the guidance of their Soviet fellows.
The trademark of the Changchung Automobile Plant.
An elderly Soviet foreman, a core worker, and a young Chinese worker in the shop floor.
Construction of the Changchung Automobile Plant.
A convoy of vessels loaded with Soviet lorries on the Yangtze River.
Chinese peasants from the Jiangsu Province are visiting a Soviet collective farm.
Bread and salt are being offered to the guests (a Russian traditional welcome).
The guests are examining the collective farm's fields, fowl-farm, watching the plowing process.
A Chinese female tractor operator is getting into the tractor cabin, plowing.
Chinese peasants are thrashing grain manually and with the help of oxen.
The first female tractor operator in the most outlandish Chinese province Tibet is on the tractor.
The peasants are hugging, congratulating each other.

Source description 3: Landscapes of the Jiangsu Province.
A portrait of Mao Tse Tung is being nailed to the gates.
Peasants are cultivating the fields, seeding with help of horses and primitive agricultural equipment.
Pictures of Mao.
Pictures of victims of Maoist repressions with tablets on their breasts.
Dead bodies of the people killed during the political upheaval and the so-called “Cultural Revolution”.
Pictures.
The Convention Hall of the VII CPC Congress, the audience is listening.
Mao Tse Tung is making a report.
The Vice-Chairman of the CPC Central Committee Lu Shaoji is making a political report.
Mao Tse Tung, the Presidium members, Congress delegates in the Hall are giving a standing ovation.
The “sparrow war” [extermination of sparrows] in Beijing.
All capital citizens, who are taking part in the operation aimed at exterminating all Beijing sparrows, are making sparrows fly up into the air by screams, noise, clanging bells, knocking buckets, bowls, playing the wind instruments loudly.
People – grown-ups and children – are waving sticks and cloths, chasing sparrows, not allowing them to land until the sparrows fall on the ground dead from exhaustion.
A sparrow on the branch.
A sparrow in the air.
Officers and soldiers are shooting at sparrows from their guns.
A young man is stringing dead birds on the cord.
Dead sparrows on the ground.
Bunches of sparrows.
Lorries are carrying dead sparrows away.
Trees.
A peasant is plowing the field to plant rice.
A woman with a spinning wheel.
Carts showing annual indices of steelmaking, grain production; the actual figures are being crossed out, the figures of the “Great Leap Forward” are appearing.
In the villages peasants are constructing self-made domestic blast furnaces, liquating metal – low quality ball iron.
Self-made blast furnaces are operating.
Ready-made product – shapeless pieces of metal.
Heaps of slag.
Happy peasants-metal-makers are presenting samples of their products to representatives of the local authorities.
Peasants in “people's communes” regulated by a strict military regime.
A picture: peasants with “Mao’s Red Books” (collection of quotations from Chairman Mao Tse Tung) in the fields.
Pictures of Mao.

Source description 4: A poor peasant hut.
Hungry peasants are digging some edible roots out of the ground.
Sculptures depicting hungry exhausted people.
Various pictures of Mao.
Mao's heat on the Yangtze River.
Mao is swimming.
Young people are swimming, a group of young people with flags.
Boats and sailing-ships are accompanying the swimmers.
A several thousand strong demonstration in Beijing, the demonstrates are carrying a sculpture of Mao Tse Tung.
The meeting, Mao is greeting the people from the tribune.
Issues of the magazine “Kitay” [“China”] published in Russian in Beijing, with portraits of Mao on the cover.
Magazine pages is being thumbed, the article: “Rasrushit do osnovaniya burzhuazny shtab” [“To Play Hell With the Bourgeois Staff”] (it refers to the CPC Central Committee).
A picture: the “ Cultural Revolution” victims - the CPC Central Committee members with their arms twisted by Red Guards – the CPC Central Committee Secretary Lo Rui-Jin, the Central Committee Political Bureau member Pin Zhan, the Vice Mayor of Beijing Fan Jin, the Minister of Higher Education Ijian Nan-Sian, the Secretary of the Beijing Communist Party City Committee Wan Li, the Candidate to Political Bureau members Xi Yan, the playwright Tian Han, the Beijing University professor Pen Pei-Yun, and others.
Dead bodies.
Crowds of Red Guards are marching along the square with portraits of Mao (they are young people, children).
Young men and girls are walking by with Mao's Red Books in their hands.
The ancient Chinese toys – dummy dolls, nodding their heads.
Soldiers, Red Guards with Mao's Red Books.
A Mao's Red Book is being looked through.
Women are reading Mao's Red Books.
Women with babies in their arms.

Source description 5: Pictures: soldiers, sailors, citizens, peasants, women, children with Mao's Red Books.
The people in the square are waving Mao's Red Books.
A hand is thumbing a Mao's Red Book in Russian; in Chinese.
A Red Guard is thumbing a Mao's Red Book.
An ancient Chinese toy – a doll, nodding its head.
People in the streets are memorizing quotations from the Mao's Red Book.
A lot of sculptures of Mao.
People are walking by along the square carrying portraits of Mao.
A picture of Mao.
Pictures of Mao on the wall.
Drawings: Chinese emperors, Chinese rich men, an ancient Chinese execution, people put in the stocks, in the cage, the emperor Jin Shi-Huangdi, the Emperor's court.
A general panorama of the several thousand strong crowd of Red Guards in the square.
Students and schoolchildren are in the streets.
Pictures: a teacher wearing a disgraceful cap on his head; ancient manuscripts are being burnt, works of art are being destroyed; monuments thrown off from their pedestals.
Painting masterpieces pasted over with Maoist slogans.
Empty frames with paintings torn out.
A statue of Buddha covered with Maoist slogans.
Red Guards are having their pictures taken.
In the street people are walking by the fence and walls, all covered with Maoist slogans and leaflets.
Young Red Guards with banners in their hands and backpacks on their backs are walking along country roads heading to Beijing upon Mao's call.
Pictures of Mao and Min Biao.
Pictures: people are greeting the military units; military men are at the plants, in the villages.
Chinese newspapers.
People are running to get newspapers.
Young men and women are marching with rifles.
Military toys for children.
Military exercises of infantry and tanks.

Source description 6: A newsreel of military actions in Indo-China: planes are dropping bombs, explosions on the ground; burning jungle and villages; captives; corpses.
Mao is making a speech at the microphone.
The centre of the city of Prague (Czechoslovakian Soviet Socialist Republic).
Chinese newspapers supporting the counterrevolution in Czechoslovakia and Poland are being thumbed.
A picture of Mao and Min Biao in the magazine.
Mao and others are walking by.
Portraits of Mao and posters in Beijing streets.
The Convention Hall of the IX CPC.
Mao is making a speech at the Congress.
Congress delegates in the Hall are voting by rising Mao's Red Books.
Young people –Zaofans (members of working young people brigades) and Red Guards are at the Congress.
The delegates are voting; screaming something; trembling.
VIII CPC Congress delegates are standing in the Presidium and in the Convention Hall, gradually black silhouettes are substituting for several people’ s images here and there (those who have been destroyed in both physical and moral sense).
Mao is applauding in the Presidium, Lin Biao is standing next to him.
A black silhouette is appearing instead of Lin Biao.
The Political Bureau members, elected at the IX CPC Congress: Lin Biao's wife – E Jun, Mao's son-in-law Wen Yuan, Mao's former secretary – Chen Bo-Da, his bodyguard Wag Dun-Xin.
Mao is voting, watching the other delegates voting.
All the delegates are voting.
A portrait of Mao.
A morning landscape, sunrise.
The sun is rising.

Directors: Medvedkin A.

Operators: Bukhovceva V., Efimov E.

Script writers: Medvedkin A.

Composers: Denisov E.

Announcer: Kolychev U.