Photos WW2 Soviet Forces

[SamWell]

Some pictures from the Arctic Front( from october of 1941 to february of 1942)
Soviet soldiers during defence phase



(rare picture of so-called "airslads")




And counterattack




Soviet navy at Taymyr Peninsula in 1942

 

[SamWell]

Soviet marine in romanian city Constanța

 

[BravoZulu]

An SU-85 from the 224th Separate Tank Regiment, 42nd Army, Leningrad Front, moving to the village of Kipen, January 20th, 1944

 

[BravoZulu]

Red Army soldiers on the march to the city of Viipuri (now Vyborg). March 1940

 

[BravoZulu]

Red Army soldiers talking with Finnish peasants in the village of Kivennapa (now the village of Pervomayskoye). December 1939.

 

[SamWell]

 

[SamWell]

Soviet soldiers trying to pull out a 45mm cannon that had fallen through the ice during a flanking maneuver.1944

 

[PEMM]

Red Army soldiers talking with Finnish peasants in the village of Kivennapa (now the village of Pervomayskoye). December 1939.
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For context: These folk are probably some of the around ~1700 Finnish civilians who were taken into concentration camps during the winter war. At least that is what happened to the majority of civilians who were not evacuated fast enough. However they most likely survived, as the internment took only around May 1940.

 

[PEMM]

Winter war POW's from Finnish archives sa-kuva.fi

I have translated the captions from the pictures.

POW
Räisälä 1939.12.16

Prisoners getting offered tobacco in Parikkala POW camp.

Parikkala 1939.12.01

Russian prisoners on a walk in Parikkala POW camp

Parikkala 1939.12.01

Russian prisoners in Parikkala POW camp

Parikkala 1939.12.01

??Ruskie smile.?? Karvian POW camp.
Karvia 1940.01.06

Karvia POW camp
Karvia 1940.01.06

Chocolate on offer, Karvia POW camp.
Karvia 1940.01.06

Downed enemy pilot interrogated in Enso.
Enso 1939.12.04

Putting out a fire in Kouvola. POW's in the background
Kouvola 1940.03.02

Hope I didn't post this earlier, I have some memory I could have but couldn't find that with fast scroll.

 

[SamWell]

Soviet POWs used as slave labor in Finland circa 1941-1943

 

[BravoZulu]

BA-10 armoured car knocked out near a bridge during Operation Barbarossa in 1941

 

[BravoZulu]

T-26 light tank knocked out on the Eastern Front in 1941

 

[BravoZulu]

Soviet M4A2(76) Sherman knocked out in the streets of Berlin - May, 1945

 

[BravoZulu]

A staged photo of Soviet soldiers moving past a knocked out German Panzer IV in the village of Krasnoarmeysk - Sept/Oct, 1942

 

[RisingStar]

Soviet traffic cop in Berlin (1945)