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Soviet soldiers killed during the Toropets–Kholm Offensive, January 1942. Even though it won the conflict, the war had a profound and devastating long-term effect in the Soviet Union. The financial burden was catastrophic: by one estimate, the Soviet Union spent $192 billion.
10 mar 2017 · He was with the Soviet Army, when it reached Berlin, where he recorded one of the war's most symbolic images: a Red Army soldier raising a Soviet flag above the German Reichstag.
The most dramatic event of the 20th century took millions of lives. Here are few people that we should be thankful for the great victory.
9 sty 2024 · After the Second World War ended, he was awarded the Hero of the Soviet Union medal for his excellent military service during the battles for the liberation of Smila and Korsun in Ukraine. However, the High Command refused to award him the Victory over Germany medal since his military career was “spoiled” for being a prisoner of war.
How the Soviet Union's greatest photoreporter captured the tragic war, the common soldier and the senseless destruction.
29 cze 2022 · Rare photographs taken at the end of World War II, 1945-1947. The return of victorious Soviet soldiers at a railway station in Moscow in 1945. At the end of the war, millions of people were dead and millions homeless, the European economy had collapsed, and much of the European industrial infrastructure had been destroyed.
German soldiers in the Soviet Union during a December 1943 Soviet offensive on the eastern front. German troops invaded Soviet territory in June 1941 but faced counteroffensives following the battle of Stalingrad.
