Photos WW2 Soviet Forces

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Soviet paratroopers prepare to board a TB-3 plane during the Manchurian Operation

 

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T-28 during the defence of Leningrad.

 

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Stalingrad: A Soviet anti-aircraft battery returns fire as residents flee for safety amidst a burning city block. 200,000 civilians are trapped as fighting enters the city.

A boat full of Red Army soldiers sinks beneath the Volga's frigid currents, its passengers trying to swim ashore before they drown or German aircraft return to finish the job

Armed workers of the Stalingrad Tank (formerly Tractor) Factory man a defensive line behind a railway embankment.

A Soviet nurse provides first aid to a wounded soldier. The men and women of 62nd Army suffer catastrophic losses holding their ground; entire divisions vanish in days (propaganda image)

 

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Stalingrad:
Soviet soldiers dash through a shroud of smoke during fighting in the ruins of the Red October Factory

Soviet troops charge a building. To counter enemy aircraft and artillery, Chuikov orders his men to "hug" the Germans, remaining within 16 meters of their lines at all times

Rattenkrieg, the Rat War. The battlefield shrinks to rooms, cellars and roofs; sewers become supply lines, streets become graveyards. Like Verdun, advances are measured in metres

Operation Uranus: Soviet infantry charge across the frozen steppe. Zhukov's armored spearheads tear through the thin Romanian lines. Paulus's Sixth Army is trapped.

 

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Red Army riflemen rush past a burning German tank. Cut off, exhausted, and facing dwindling supplies, the 330,000 Axis soldiers trapped in Zhukov's encirclement waste away

Soviet soldiers storm Paulus's last airfield, severing the last Axis supply line. As the Soviet noose tightens, Sixth Army's strength wanes, and finally collapses February 2, 1943

Soviet troops drag a German soldier out of a cellar—one of 91,000 captured. Already starving, frostbitten, and malnourished, Soviet captivity means only 6,000 will return home

Red Army soldiers patrol a devastated wasteland that was once a city. As of February 1943, Stalingrad no longer exists. 800,000 to 1,200,000 people have died in its ruins.

 

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Wrecked T-34-85 tank at the outskirts of Nemmersdorf, East Prussia, Germany, 20 Oct 1944

 

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Knocked out KV-2, Lithuania 1941

 

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7 T-34-85s, 2 ISU-152s, and 2 JS-2s destroyed while storming the Reichstag at the bridge over the River Spree in the Reichstag area, Berlin 1945.