Photos WW2 Soviet Forces

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Red Army officers: Colonel Aleksey Rodin, Commander of the 124th Tank Brigade, Brigade Political Officer Mikhail Sochugov, and Chief of Staff of the 1st Tank Regiment of the 1st Red Banner Tank Division, Lt. Col. Sergei Martemyanov.

 

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Danzig (Gdansk, Poland today) 1945.
Red Army ISU-122 heavy self-propelled gun; M4A2 76mm Sherman, and in the foreground looks like 122mm howitzer and its limber.

 

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Red Army SU-76 in Danzig, 1945.

 

[Иван Феоктистов]

Good day. I am interested in one question. Many in my country believe that abroad the USSR in World War II is judged by the unhistorical and propaganda film "Enemy at the Gate" and the game "Call of Duty". What is the situation with this in the American military community? Thank you

 

[Иван Феоктистов]

Battle of Khalkhin Gol / Nomonhan Incident 11 May – 16 September 1939. Not enough attention is paid to that campaign, which changed the course of WWII. An ugly, hard fought, but decisive Soviet victory gave an upper hand to the Japanese Navy commanders who favored an expansion and drive for resources to the South Pacific, rather than an Imperial Japanese Army preference for the Northern strike into Siberia and the Soviet Far East.

Few folks realize that the troops commanded by General Zhukov were the best ones the Red Army had at that time. The rank and file was by and large folks from Ukraine and central Russia who were deported to the Far East and Siberia in the aftermath of peasant uprisings of the 1920s and collectivization of the early 1930s. The officers corps was composed of men who were trying to avoid Stalin's purges of the 1930s by seeking posts in undesirable far flung regions of the Soviet Union. Some of the officers on the Soviet side were actually released from Gulag so that they could take part in fighting. Yet, like I've said it was the Soviet numerical and qualitative advantage over the Japanese and the superb logistical effort that played the leading role in the Japanese defeat rather than the skill and ingenuity of the high command.


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Why do you mention the Gulag in almost every post?

 

[Иван Феоктистов]

Much that tells about the prison system in the USSR, in particular about the GULag, fakes that were written by the Soviet dissident Solzhenitsyn, and after the collapse of the USSR, many of his imitators. In the 90s, it became fashionable to tarnish one's own history - it brought in a lot of money both in Russia and abroad. Our historians have a big task to destroy these myths. For example, Solzhenitsyn and Rezun-Suvorov as sources were completely crushed and discredited, and by the force of archival documents.

 

[Иван Феоктистов]

Artillery unit with 152-mm ML-20 howitzers. 1944, 2nd baltic front.

На солдатах гимнастерки образца 35 года с пришитыми погонами. Мне всегда нравилось подобное сочетание - смотрится не хуже гимнастерки со стоячим воротником. А что скажете Вы?

 

[Иван Феоктистов]

On January 28, 1945, Roza Yegorovna Shanina, a sniper of a separate platoon of female snipers of the 3rd Belorussian Front, died. She was awarded two Orders of Glory and a medal "For Courage". On account of her 54 confirmed destroyed enemy soldiers and officers.

 

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Camouflaged T-34 tanks, Rzhev region, January 1942.

The photo is interesting in that one of the crew left a captured Mauser carbine on the armor, as it did not fit in the tank.

Red Army soldiers pull a German soldier out of the basement of a destroyed house in Stalingrad. January 1943.

Author: Yakov Ryumkin

Soviet troops in the liberated Gatchina (in 1929-1944 - Krasnogvardeysk) near the Connetable Square. January 26, 1944.

A 76mm Soviet regimental cannon is visible in the foreground. In the background you can see an architectural monument of the 18th century - the Connetable obelisk, desecrated by the German swastika.

 

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Russian north

 

[Иван Феоктистов]

Soviet officers and captured armored vehicles

 

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Abandoned T-35 tanks produced in 1938 and nearby T-26 tanks produced in 1940. The photo shows two white stripes - a tactical sign of the 67th Panzer Regiment of the 34th Panzer Division. June 1941.

Soviet T-35 tank stuck in a roadside ditch during the battle and abandoned on the Verba-Ptichye highway. This tank has serial number 0200-0, manufactured in 1938. A vehicle from the 67th Tank Regiment of the 34th Panzer Division of the 8th Mechanized Corps of the Southwestern Front.

 

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Abandoned T-35 tanks produced in 1938 and nearby T-26 tanks produced in 1940. The photo shows two white stripes - a tactical sign of the 67th Panzer Regiment of the 34th Panzer Division. June 1941.

Soviet T-35 tank stuck in a roadside ditch during the battle and abandoned on the Verba-Ptichye highway. This tank has serial number 0200-0, manufactured in 1938. A vehicle from the 67th Tank Regiment of the 34th Panzer Division of the 8th Mechanized Corps of the Southwestern Front.


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The battlefield between the villages of Verba and Ptichya, In this area, from 28 to 30 June 1941, the rearguards of the Popel group fought with the German 16th Panzer Division, trying to break through the encirclement, while the main forces of the group attacked Dubno.
The location of the tanks on the pre-war Polish map

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Next to this group, two destroyed German Pz.III tanks are visible, and on the slope of the road - a torn off tower from a Pz.II.

 

[Иван Феоктистов]

Wow! Thank you very much, I have not seen a number of these photos before!

 

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On August 27, 1942, on the southern outskirts of the city of Voronezh in the Sandy Log, soldiers of the Third Reich shot 452 civilians undergoing treatment in a hospital, including 35 children.

 

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Soviet 76-mm divisional gun F-22, model 1939 (USV) and a dead artillery crew. A column of German troops is moving in the background.

Spooky photo. The artillerymen did not even have time to dig in and took up the battle in an open field.

 

[Иван Феоктистов]

A Soviet soldier gives a light to the captured Germans. 1943 year.

Author: Pavel Troshkin

The machine gunners of V. V. Gladionov's subdivision were the first to break into the outskirts of the city. Gatchina (Krasnogvardeysk), January 26, 1944.

Soviet soldiers with a banner on the roof of a house in the liberated Gatchina. January 26, 1944.

The scene with the raising of the flag was filmed by several photographers, in the memories of one of them - Vsevolod Tarasevich - the names of other participants remained: “I especially remember the shooting of a group of scouts who were planting a scarlet banner on an old fire tower on Krasnaya Street. They were glorious fighters who were among the first to burst into the burning city - P. Silin, A. Fomin, S. Tushkanov, A. Bazarov. " In another version, Tarasevich recalled: "Four guardsmen who distinguished themselves during the assault on Gatchina: Sergeant Major Silin, corporals Tushkanov, Fomin and Lieutenant Bazarov raised the banner of Victory over the city."

 

[Иван Феоктистов]

Soviet soldiers pass through a German settlement. East Prussia. January 25, 1945. Photographer: Y. Yarin.

Liberation of Voronezh. Soviet troops enter the city. A ZiS-5 truck in the foreground is towing a cannon. January 25, 1943

 

[Иван Феоктистов]

Command of the Kirov Partisan Detachment of the Parkhomenko Brigade of the Minsk Formation. Gluss district of the Byelorussian SSR, spring of 1943.
Standing: in the center - Nikolai Borisovich Khrapko (32 years old) - detachment commander; on the right - army political instructor Vasily Yemelyanovich Golodov (27 years old) - commissar of the detachment, on the left - Lieutenant Sergei Vasilievich Syrokvashin (25 years old) - chief of staff of the detachment.
Below: Vasily Kuchugura - head of the detachment's reconnaissance, Leonid Vinogradov - head of the detachment's special department.
Golodov and Vinogradov will die in this, 1943, year.

 

[Иван Феоктистов]

Female technicians of the 305th assault aviation division at the Il-2 attack aircraft.