Photos WW2 Soviet Forces

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Mikhail Alekseev, a Buryat-Mongolian Soviet soldier, with his PPSh-41 in the ruins of Berlin, 1945.

 

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Soviet artillery bombarding German positions in the Battle of Seelow Heights. 1945

 

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Soviet personnel checking out a destroyed German Stug-III, Sevastopol, USSR 1942.

 

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The son of the regiment, Vanya Kozlov serves food in the 1st Rifle Motorized Battalion, 1st Ukrainian Front, 1944.

 

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Tankers and their sniffer dog, Dzhulbars.

 

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A Soviet sniper on the Leningrad Front in March, 1943

 

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A Soviet self-propelled gun SU-76M crosses a river next to a destroyed bridge. An American-made Chevrolet G7107 truck is moving next to it.

 

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T-34/76 knocked out near a German position on the Eastern Front in early 1942.

 

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A baby found in an empty Soviet village after all the population was sent to Germany. 1943.

 

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Cavalry belonging to the 3rd Ukrainian Front passes a German armored train that was destroyed during the fighting around Odessa in April 1944

 

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T-34-85s from 6th Army of the 1st Ukrainian Front and a pair of IL-2 attack aircraft cross into the Breslau region in Germany (today Wrocław, Poland), in March 1945

 

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Infantry dismounting from Valentine tanks before battle, Rzhev direction, 1942.

 

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Soldiers of the 6th Guard Separate Breakthrough Tank Regiment in gas masks on the armor of a KV-1S tank in the attack. North Caucasian Front, 1943.

 

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Anti-tank riflemen on the Kursk salient, 1943

 

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Cavalrymen of Issa Pliyev's Cavalry-Mechanized Group during their offensive towards Odessa 1944.

 

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Soviet armoured train knocked out in a duel with German tanks during Operation Barbarossa in 1941

 

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Troops dismount from a KV-1 tank during combat operations near the city of Prokhladny, Kabardino-Balkarian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. 1942

 

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Soviet Troops fighting for a settlement in the North Caucasus. North Caucasian Front, 1942. *Propaganda image*

 

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2nd Guards Rifle (future Taman Division) Division of the Red Army defends in the battle for the North Caucasus. Summer 1942

 

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Tankers pull a wounded crewman out of a Lend Lease Medium Tank M3 near Gzhatsk, August 1942. The presence of a counterweight on the gun barrel indicates that this is an M2 75 mm gun with a stabilizer