Photos WW2 Soviet Forces

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Soviet light tanks and ski infantry move into attack the enemy across snow-covered terrain during the Winter Offensive of 1942-43.

 

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Soviet infantry, supported by a T-34 tank, attacking a village on the North-Western Front, probably during the Rzhev-Vyazma Offensive, March 1942.

 

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A German soldier surrenders to Soviet infantry during the Battle of Moscow, sometime in December of 1941 or January 1942.

 

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A knocked out T-26 near the German-Soviet border in occupied Poland, 22 June 1941

 

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Burning T-34 on the Eastern Front, 1943

 

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Soviet equipment and fallen soldiers at Raate Road, Suomussalmi. Jan 1940

 

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Soldiers run past a burning building during the battle for Berlin.

T-34/85 from the 7th Guards Tank Corps and prisoners of Volkssturm militia in the streets of Berlin, May 1945.

Infantry fight their way towards the Reichstag building in the streets of Berlin (here Moltkestrasse in the Tiergarten district, today Willy-Brandt-Strasse), late April / early May 1945.

Red Army infantry charge the artillery-scarred Reichstag in 1945

 

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A Soviet soldier drags a Hitler Youth out of a manhole during the Battle for Berlin. Both then sprawl on the ground under fire

A Soviet artillery crew pushes their gun forward as the face of a building collapses. Relentless shelling turns Berlin into a ruin

An SU-76 assault gun in Berlin

IS-2 commanded by Hero of the Soviet Union Guard Captain F.A. Lipatkina supports the infantry in battle on a Berlin street.

Infantry near the Brandenburg Gate

 

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Lend Lease M4A2 from 219th Tank Brigade, Weissensee, April 1945

Ilyushin IL-2 Sturmovik in the skies above Berlin, 1945

Soviet artillery bombarding German positions during the battle for the Seelow Heights.

 

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Soviet soldiers fighting house to house in Budapest, 1945

 

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Street fighting in Königsberg, 9 April, 1945

A 152mm ML-20 howitzer of the 7th Guards Gun Artillery Regiment (5th Guards Breakthrough Artillery Corps) opens fire in the vicinity of Konigsberg

Soviet infantry attacking in the vicinity of Konigsberg, supported by SU-76 assault guns

Soviet infantry attack Fort Four near Konigsberg

 

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Knocked out T-34/76. May 1945, Berlin

 

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Wow, some great WWII shots there, thanks for posting!

 

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Soviet infantry in winter camouflage with a convoy of T-40 light tanks during the Battle of Moscow, 1941.
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Picture of an uncertain tank unit from the Central Front in September 1941.What makes this photo interesting is the presence,along with KV and early T-34, of an early, amphibious version of the T-40 tank.A later and more widespread non-floating version of it can be seen, for example, in a post I'm replying to