Photos WW2 Soviet Forces

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T-34 "Leningradets" of the 30th Guards Tank Brigade of the 67th Army of the Leningrad Front enters Krasnoye Selo.

 

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January 12, 1945 - Soviet troops launched the Vistula-Oder offensive operation, one of the most successful and large-scale offensives of the war.

 

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T-34-85s and a pair of IL-2 attack aircraft cross into the Breslau region in Germany (today Wrocław, Poland), March 1945.

 

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Leningrad militia practice throwing anti-tank grenades from a slit trench, 1942.

 

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16 Apr 1945: ZiS-3 guns bombarding German positions near Seelow Heights, Berlin

 

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Knocked out T-26

 

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SU-76s pass a dug in Pv IV, Berlin 1945

 

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Battles of Rzhev between January 8, 1942, and March 31, 1943. Destroyed T-34/76 and Lend Lease Valentine tanks

 

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Column of destroyed and captured Soviet vehicles, mostly T-26 tanks, Suomussalmi, Finland, 17 January 1940

 

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As the Red Army advanced westward in March 1945, Soviet troops were sometimes required to pause and deploy their weapons against pockets of German resistance

 

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Female snipers of the Soviet 3rd Shock Army, 1945. Between 1941–1945, a total of 2,484 Soviet female snipers were functioning in this role, of whom about 500 survived the war.

 

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Soviet tankers and soldiers celebrate the Victory. May 1945

 

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Less than 100 miles east of Berlin, Soviet tanks race through a breach in the German lines. Infantrymen often rode atop the tanks to advance more rapidly and provide support for the armour during combat.

 

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Following their repulse of a German counterattack, Soviet infantrymen and tanks pursue the retreating enemy toward their capital in March 1945. Berlin fell to the Red Army weeks later.

 

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ISU-122 tank destroyers, Western Ukraine, 1944

 

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30 Apr 1945. T-34-85 tank and SU-100 tank destroyer near Berlin

 

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T-34 tanks of the South-Western Front advancing, May 1942

 

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Soviet KV-1 model 1941 "Чап" knocked out with a penetrating hit to the rear of the turret in 1942

 

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Knocked out Lend-Lease Matilda tank. Summer 1942

 

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T-34/76 and T-60 tanks knocked out in Voronezh in 1942