Photos WW2 Soviet Forces

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Soviet soldier posing with a PPSh-41, Budapest, Hungary, 1944

 

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M4 tanks and ISU-122 SPGs of 1st mechanised corps 2nd guard tank army on the streets of Berlin 23 April - 2 May 1945.

 

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Berlin, April 1945. Funerals of the soldiers killed in the last days of war. Looks like photos made just after the battle. Powerful photos.

Commander of the batallion speech. Dead bodies are in the truck.

Farewell salute.

 

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Improvised bunker busters or "flying torpedoes" of the 62nd Engineers Brigade, April 29, 1945, Breslau, Germany.

For the manufacture of flying torpedoes, M-13 shells were used, on which an additional hull filled with explosives was put on. Shooting was carried out from wooden boxes with metal guides, which were dug into the ground at the right angle.

manufacture

filling with melted TNT

installation of wooden stabilizers

Carrying a flying torpedo to a launch position

 

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Coloured photos.

 

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The crew of IS-2 heavy tank looks on at the Reichstag's ruin. The conclusion of Battle for Berlin didn't mark the end of combat on the Eastern Front. Army Group Courland surrender a week later, and that surrender was anything but peaceful. Furthermore skirmishes in the Soviet zone of control bordering Western allies continued well into the Summer of 1945 as small groups of German soldiers and civilians were trying to break through the Soviet lines and surrender to the American and British forces and/or become refugees. Survivors from the "ethnic" Waffen SS division usually fought to the last bullet as they expected no mercy from either side.

 

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Berlin stays German!

 

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Battleship Parizhskaya Kommuna, 1940

 

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September 1942, Anisovka airfield, Saratov region, 586th fighter regiment

From left to right:
lt. Galina Burdina (152 sorties)
lt. Tamara Pamyatnykh (205 sorties)
lt. Valeriya Khomyakova
lt. Valentina Lisitsina

 

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Soviet Soldier in a parade in Moscow, 1938 with French "Adrian" helmet with red star and Mosin PE sniper rifle

 

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Soviet Soldier in a parade in Moscow, 1940 with French "Adrian" helmet with red star and Mosin PE sniper rifle

Famous photo by the Soviet Military photographer, Ivan Shagin. The photo was taken in 1938 Here is the colored version.

 

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Famous photo by the Soviet Military photographer, Ivan Shagin. The photo was taken in 1938 Here is the colored version.

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Great info mate, thanks very much ??

 

[Blueshead]

Dear Creators of this very specific and rare kind of collection of pictures, i do appreciate it a lot and it helps me to a great extent to pursue some questions i had on the past history around WWII.
Therefore thank you all who contributed - it is amazing what comes together here, wow!!

 

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Loading torpedoes with the inscription “Death to samurai!” to the Soviet Shchuka-class submarine of the Pacific Fleet (V-bis series). In the background is another Shchuka-class submarine (X series). August, 1945.

 

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Soviet motorcyclist gives written message to the crew of the BA-10 armoured car. (Winter War, Dec 1939)

 

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A Quad Maxim AA positions springs to life outside of St Isaac’s Cathedral - Battle of Leningrad

 

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Kirov, lead ship Project 26bis Kirov-class cruiser in Volga during patrol in October 1943

Caption doesn't make any sense. Volga is a river Kirov spent all the the war in the Baltic sea and actually didn't venture to sea after Fall of 1941 acting as a floating artillery battery throughout the war.