This satiric comedy, which ridicules the absurd conceptions of Soviet Russia held by Americans, involves the visit to the USSR of a certain Mr. West, president of the YMCA. To protect himself against the savages and Red bandits depicted in the U.S. press, he takes with him a bodyguard, the cowboy Jeddy (portrayed by Boris Barnet). The two fall into the clutches of a gang of hooligans who show them exactly what they expect to see. "The first feature from Lev Kuleshov's experimental workshop was also the first radically original film of the Soviet era. A gleeful satire on the excesses of American anti-Bolshevik propaganda, it is also an affectionate parody/analysis of American popular cinema with fights, chases and rescues, brilliantly choreographed according to Kuleshov's 'rehearsal method'" (Ian Christie).