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German-Soviet War - WWII's Bloodiest Front
The German-Soviet War, known in the USSR and today's Russia as the Great Patriotic War or, in Western Europe, as the Eastern Front of the Second World War (1939-45), began in June 1941 with Operation Barbarossa...
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Nazi-Soviet Pact
The Nazi-Soviet Pact, also called the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact after the respective foreign ministers of the USSR and Germany, was a non-aggression agreement signed in August 1939. The pact allowed the leader of Nazi Germany Adolf...
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Soviet War Memorial in Berlin
Soviet War memorial in the Großer Tiergarten, Berlin, photographed by Manfred Brueckels, 2007. The memorial itself was unveiled in November 1945 to commemorate the Soviet Union's losses in the war, especially those...
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Soviet Propaganda Poster for the Five-Year Plan
Soviet propaganda poster for Joseph Stalin's Five-Year Plan, illustration by Yakov Guminer, 1931. The poster urges workers that if they add their enthusiasm then the plan can be achieved in just four...
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Soviet Propaganda Poster Against Kulaks
A Soviet propaganda poster demonizing kulaks, illustration by Viktor Deni, 1919. In this poster, kulaks, better-off landowning peasants, are accused of hoarding bread. The caption reads: "Bread-Spider. Bloodsucking...
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Soviet Collectivisation Propaganda Poster
A Soviet propaganda poster extolling rural modernisation in Stalin's collectivisation of agriculture, c. 1930. The top title reads: "On the Path to Collectivisation." State Archive of the Russian Federation...
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Soviet Troops, Stalingrad
A photograph of Soviet Red Army troops moving forward during the battle of Stalingrad (July 1942 - February 1943) during the Second World War (1939-45). (Imperial War Museums)
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Soviet Prisoners, Minsk, 1941
A July 1941 photograph showing lines of Soviet prisoners following the battle of Białystok-Minsk in Jun-Jul 1941 during Operation Barbarossa of the Second World War (1939-45). In the battle, the USSR's Red Army was...
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Soviet Embassy, Tehran
A photograph of the Soviet embassy in Tehran, Iran. This was the location of the Tehran Conference in late 1943 when the leader of the USSR Joseph Stalin (1878-1953), President of the United States Franklin D. Roosevelt...
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Soviet Anti-Aircraft Gunners, Sevastopol
A May 1942 photograph of Soviet anti-aircraft gunners of the Zheleznyakov armored train used during the Siege of Sevastopol in 1941-2 in the Second World War (1939-45).