More Photos from WW2
Another shot showing how people can get used to everything. This old women seems doesn’t care at all about the battle going on around her.
Japanese captives.
Karelia, Russia during WW2.
German captives. Russian soldiers don’t beat them or anything, on the contrary they are giving them cigarettes and light..
An infantry detachment is trying to shoot down German Nazi planes.
And they succeeded.
The troop advances and the train moves beneath them..
Field ambulance..
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Fucking Germans! I hate them!
Fucking Finnish People! But i don’t hate them. Prejudices are everywhere, or not?
Why you hate them? Because YOUR COUNTRY was their allies in WWII? :S
ROFL and Russia wasn’t ?
fuckin world! i hate it!
Asun saksassa. Oletko vittulainen!
So they shot down a stuka… with a bunch of sniper rifles? I don’t buy it.
Comments on this blog are often made up. Just look at one of the previous posts about the “moose”
there was a story how a german aircraft wing torpedoed a supply ship going to some sea port up the north through some moderate ice (Murmanks may be?)
A soldier survived by jumping on the ice and made his way to the land by foot, being constantly chased by a lone german figher plane trying to find and kill him. It was a matter of principal for the german pilot to make his kill. It wasnt easy though, as it was difficult to find a single soldier on a vast frozen plane and a soldier was always trying to hide himself in the snow. He was wounded though, so he was getting weaker and he had no food left. he was also leaving footprints on the snow. Eventually he was spotted and made a single shot as a last resort at the enemy airplane, damaging an oil pipe which made it crashland and german pilot was captured.
Dunno if its true or not but its a cool story nevertheless
I think it’s a real story. There’s a Russian novel and a movie about this event.
why not? if stuka was going at the low alltidude and at the low speed, it is possible. And actually in the Red army, there were special bucklets, to show how to shoot at the enemy plane. It included the position of the shooter, how should he aim at the plane and stuff….crazy and hard to believe, but true
i was in WW2 an if you see in tht picture i was at the top you ar eright how that was hard we shot down 9 of the 20 planes that flew by aiming u just have to aim a little bit ahead of them i shot 2 down the one in the picture right below it was the first one i shot i was only 21
In the background of the photo there are ruts visible. Possibly it was trying to land on a saturated airfield and flipped. There are lots of accounts of this type of thing occurring in muddy or sandy conditions. The body could be the pilot or gunner, either thrown during the flip or dragged out by ground crew in a first aid attempt. The wreck looks too neat. Usually battle damaged aircraft slam into the ground and disintegrate into scrap metal.
Now this is what I call propaganda photos! Glorious soldiers, dead enemy - very classy!
There’s no propagande in it. It’s just the moment of real life.
regarding picture 5 - Theoretically soldiers can’t beat or anything their Prisoners Of War because “Article 4 of the Third Geneva Convention protects captured military personnel (…) It applies from the moment a prisoner is captured until he or she is released or repatriated. One of the main provisions of the convention makes it illegal to torture prisoners and states that a prisoner can only be required to give his or her name, date of birth, rank and service number”. Anyway those german POWs were sent to Kazakhstan/Siberia, and most of them died there in gulags…
At that time USSR was not party to this convention. According to Stalin Russian soldiers could not be POWs. Captured Russian soldiers (and even innocent civilians) were considered parricides. And if they ever returned to the USSR GULAG was waiting for them.
Most of Germans were not sent to kazakhstan/Siberia. It was impossible after the war was over and it was no time for this during the war. Anyway even those sent to Siberia, most of tehm, survived. I am not saying gulag was dolce vita of course, but I can assure you Nazis treated Russians much worse. My grandfather was captured in the very beginning of the war, and lucky him, he managed to escape soon and spend all the rest time till war end with partizans.
Exemple of Soviet treatment of POW, was executing in 1940 23.000 of Polish officers taken as POW in 1939, during German-Soviet attack on Poland.
So you have proof that the Germans treated soviet POW’s worse, than the Soviets treated german POW’s?
“Anyway even those sent to Siberia, most of tehm, survived”: for instance of the 90.000 captured German soldiers at Stalingrad, only 5.000 survived and were able to return home, a lot of them not earlier than 1955. I don’t know what your definition of “most of them” is.
I am from South Siberia near Kazakhstan. My mother was born and lived in village full of Germans. There are plenty of villages there with Germans or only Germans. They didn’t die in gulag. In fact they were even more successful in farming then some Russian villages. And we like them there cos of their clean villages and order in everything, their hard working and punctual people. So SHUT THE F##K UP!! if u don’t know sh#t.
Those were Russian Germans. There was Autonomic German republic on Volga river before WW2 started. They were all forced to move to Kazakhstan and Siberia with Chechens, Greeks and dozens of other nations.
I know Japanese POWs were in Kazakhstan. They built lots of old buildings in Almaty.
Keep in mind that Stalin’s Soviet Union was not a signatory of the Geneva Conventions at that time. The Germans used that as an excuse for the mistreatment of Soviet prisoners as well.
“Karelia, Russia”
Fuck you stinking russkies, that should be part of Finland! Most of Stalin’s crimes have been admitted, but not stealing Karelia and other parts of Finland.
Go fuck yourself. You were on the side of Germany, remember that? So, shut up and be thankful that we didn’t extinguish you all.
For one thing, if Finland hadn’t been allied with Germany, you would definitely have “extinguished us” to start with. German aid was essential in the Continuation War. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuation_war
Finns like to think of the Winter War and Continuation War as separate to WWII. We were defending our country (and getting land lost in the Winter War back). Finland was not a fascist, but a democratic country.
In 1939, during attack on Poland, afer Ribbentrop-Molotov pact, USSR was ‘on side of Germany’, remember that ?
Please re-acquaint yourself with history of Karelia here - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karelia#History. I quote:
“The Treaty of Nystad (Finnish: Uudenkaupungin rauha) in 1721 between Imperial Russia and Sweden ceded most of Karelia to Russia”
Karelia was part Novgorodian Republic a LOOONG before Treaty of Nystad. So go fuck yourself. And about Finland,there was no such state prior to 1917 and until 1807 you were nothing but a giant village.
There was no such state as the Russian Federation prior to 1991. Before that, it was a giant prisoner camp.
Parts of Estonia and Latvia were stolen as well, and of course Neo-USSR of today is not going to return them. Karelia, Petserimaa (Pechory), Abrene, … the list probably goes on.
Nevertheless, Finland was incredibly lucky and managed not to get ‘liberated’ and subsequently brutally occupied for 50 years. Good for them they had the common sense to accept German help.
Yah! Since estonia and latvia cannot compete anything, they start crying asking for grounds!
Go fuck yourselves! Always remember that all of your industrial evolution was due to USSR!
Just run around the tree untill you (latvians and estonians) catch your ass and fuck it…
you will never get anything from Russia, but dead donkeys ears.
Militaristic Finland was ally of Nazi Germany and fought side by side with nazi bastards. That is historical fact.
LOL @ russkiebomb, STUPID RUSSIANS IN GLASS HOUSES ALWAYS THROW STONES, You started out in WW2 as NAZI allies, that is a historical fact, there’s some photos I can show you of a joint NAZI-Soviet military parade in Brest, celebrating the joint conquest together, that the fascist GERMAN and RUSSIAN SCUM, together drinking,laughing and celebrating. The Scynthians (Russians in antiquity) never change, the most barbaric of the barbarians… Even the NAZI’s got pissed off with your bullshit and inability to stick to the agreements you made with them, so they attacked you - in the spirit of the enemy of the enemy is my friend the Finns joined them and they managed to keep their country free from the shit stain of humanity that is Russia, unlike some other unfortunate Baltic states.
Stealing Karelia? Hahaha. Finnland did not exist till 1918. So, you should thank stinky commies, otherwise you would be still part of Russian Empire.
Japanese captives? Did the USSR fight Japan in World War II?
Belarus Guy: Yes, the USSR declared war on Japan after Germany was defeated. The veteren Soviet army defeated the Japanese in Manchuria. The Japanese, equipped and accustomed to fighting ill equipped Chinese, was quickly over-run by Soviet T-34/85s and IS2s.
My grand grandpa was fighting in that war and died. R.I.P.
USSR fight Japan? yes. And till now there is no declaration of peace beetwen Russia and Japan/
Soviet declaration of war between USSR and Japan 8th August 1945 was only the revange for lost war in 1905. Similar as Soviet crime of executing 23.000 of Polish officers taken as POW in 1939 - it was revange for lost war between Poland and Soviet Russia.
There were no reason to USSR-Japan war in 8.08.1945, after US bombing of Hieroshima and Nagasaki (in fact, US-Japan war was practicaly ended after the atom bombing - officialy, capitulation of Japan was 2.09.1945).
For USSR it was an exellent opportunity, that Japan had not attacked USSR in 1941-1942. After innteligence confirmation that Japan didn’t want attack USSR, Stalin could move all armies to ‘German’ front. It was late 1942 and thanks that Germans was stoped in Stalingrad (it was first of German retreat).
P.S. Japan started in 1941 the war with USA (and others) in order to take access to oil and other stuff. The decision was stupid.
In fact, there would be the other variant for Japan - to atack Siberia in order to take access to oil and other stuff. Russians may thanks Japan that that decison wasn’t taken.
That would have given them a major advantage if they had of, although that still wouldn’t enough to beat us I think. But where did you learn that, I looked for it a little but found nothing.
I simply write about history of IIWW. What is the ’surprise’ for you ?
Use complete expression, don’t use a thinking short cut. I don’t think in English and don’t want to surmise.
The Soviet/Japanese face off and eventual war is the most under documented aspect of WWII. Few pictures seem to exist, and even fewer first hand accounts. The photo above is the first time that I have seen that one.
There’s some sort of handbook by David Glantz et al on USSR tactics during the war with Japan, it focuses on their improvement as compared with the chaotic early days of the war and it makes quite an interesting read.
It’s available as a pdf on emule.
With the sniper rifles, I think you can see they are Mosin Nagant rifles with a scope attached. Please correct me if I’m wrong.
That photograph with the train in the background - can any Russians (or anyone who knows) here please tell me what the soldiers in that photo are armed with. They’ve got bayonets fixed, but that barrel configuration doesn’t look like a conventional Mosin Nagant, does it?
The Mosin Nagant was standard issue for Russian riflemen in WWII (as was the PPSh-41 submachine-gun which you can see in both the first and last photo). I really like the Mosin, I’m better with it than I am with the Springfield 1903. But my favourite of the old bolt-action rifles is the Lee Enfield .303 for both sentimental reasons (mine came from a relative who was a serviceman) and practical reasons (bloody accurate, very reliable). Still though, the Mosin is an excellent rifle.
The Mosin pictured seems to be an older, full length model. Possibly a pre-revolutionary vintage model brought out of a war reserve warehouse. And, yes, I agree on its reliability, but my Moisin carbine kicks like a mule.
Massed rifle fire is nothing to sneeze at. And WWII planes aren’t the armored, lightning fast and well-nigh invulnerable beasts we have today.
A detatchment like that, presumably highly trained marksmen with high performance, scoped rifles against a low-flying plane, which might have been trying to strafe them… I don’t think I’d be betting much on the plane. Accurate, long range and the total rate of fire would be what… call it 15 riflemen, 6 aimed rounds per minute each, is a total of 90.
Nothing to sneeze at.
I just want to remind everyone to take what you see with a grain of salt. And especially the comments (author clearly is not trying to state facts, but is being a bit sarcastic).
As far as real events, i think you should read up on some soldiers’ memoirs. While the photographers and journalists were censored (i.e. you will not find any photos of dead Russian soldiers made by a Russian photographer), the memoirs are written many years later. And old people don’t need to lie, they’re just telling their story.
Just FYI, Stalins camps actually killed more than Hitlers did…
It’s fact, but it shows the success of leftist propaganda over the World.
Nazis (national socialists) are banned everywhere but communists still can resound their ideology.
Fool. Communism resounds today because it was never Russia’s ideology to begin with….IT WAS A GERMAN’S!! Communism is a form of politics. Nazism was the worst of what mankind had to offer.
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granma on picture 1 rawks :)))
agreed. thats my fav pic haha
hehe, yeah, she looks cool.
…it’s funny, like one shouts into the woods, but more funny it that there is always, always at least one to shout back.
Seppo SAATANA KYRPÄPERSE HOMOLUTKUTTAJA VITUNIMIJA Lehto
Is A WACKO Finnish asshole. Dont believe his disgusting lies. Everybody hates him! I MEAN EVERYBODY!
Fucking idiots and fags
People like you are the reason why there will be a World War III.
The reason for ww3 is sitting in White House.
Amen to that!
I am just an interested onlooker. Are pics 3 and 4 from WWII? Did the wear such hats at that time?
yes the Russians did wear such hats.
Hahaha funny with a few of the russians here, totally brainwashed!
Just to mess with you: The russian army have always been worthless, or at least in every war i have read about! The one and only reason to russian victories is the endless number of soldiers that russian leaders have been willing to sacrifice!
Instead of glorifying USSR, you should respect Finland and Germany (of course not Nazi-Germany), because these countries have been so extremely much more successful than Russia since WW2. How many years did it take for Germany to become richer than Russia again, if they ever were more poor than you? Nokia, BMW, Siemens, law and order and wealth that´s real shit, these pictures are just propaganda!
Hilarious pictures!
I’ve just found this website and I really like it))) so many views.
I appreciate that there are some educated americans, who are really interested in my country.
but…i’m not really surprised to see a lot of ignorant guys here.
regarding this topic.
I live in Stalingrad and believe me I know a lot of facts about WW2. not like the author of the last comment ))) haha he read BOOKS!!! OMG!!!
and my grandpa ( RIP) was awarded with a lot of medals and could tell a lot as well as the people of Stalingrad, which was COMPLETYELY destroyed. sooo….dear Peter…how long do you think it takes to rebuild the destroyed country??? how long does it take to provide people with housing? jobs? money?
was germany or Finland as destroyed as Russia was?
ask your books ))))
Russianbeauty your grandfather was a fascist, just as bad as the NAZIs, I piss on his grave that is the respect he deserves. Was he involved with the invasion Poland along with his NAZI pals? Or was it when the germans lost their patience with you shits when he decided to fight? Not one step back, or get killed by your own, brave? Absolutely not - the reason only tyrants can win wars in Russia is because the people are such cowards they have to be terrorised into defending themselves.
fuck off
and…just forgot…these pics are real propaganda ))))
i hate germans; i fact i hate all 9 motherfuckers who decided that it is quite alright to exterminate slavic people;
fuck them; for all i know we should have taken 32 million lives in return evenly from each of those contries; … and maybe completely wipe out germany; every one of my grand parents fought in that bloodbath & brutally murderred hundreds(hopefully) of military personal as well as prussian & german civilians & i am damn proud of it;
i will never forgive & or seek complete extermination and
ass cancer for people of the following countries:
albania;
austria;
croatia;
germany;
hungary;
italy;
romania;
spain ( up to 25000 fought on eastern front);
and last but not least - Suomi fucking Finlandia;
the rest were okay;
yes i agree. But you must remember this infamous quote “It is the old that make war, but it is the young that fight and die.”-Winston Churchill- it means that most soldiers weren’t there because they liked the ideals of there leaders but because of ether: conscription , Money, and fame. Most did not enjoy killing and slaughtering Jewish people. They were just following orders.
Keep in mind that all Germans are Nazis.
Redblood
[edit] are not nazis (oops)
and you are a perfect example of why there will never be world peace
i think hitler was a mentally unstable faggitt! how the fuck could he ever possibly think he could take over the world and have it the way he wanted with a pure aryan race? and rid the world of jews? he used and twisted the geneva convention rules to suit himself (a bit like my missus with the facts when she’s got the hump!) he decieved and cheated everyone to get what he wanted, just look at what they did to holland. told them they’d be protected, then they had to come into holland to stop enemy troops, and gradually started taking over, eventually removing rights from the jews, gradually getting worse and worse, even making a law that all jews had to pay all of their money into certain bank accounts controlled by germans, germans looted jews homes for food and valuables etc. but the germans must have been pretty stupid to go along with hitler, instead of thinking “well that’s wrong” most other countries someone would step in and prevent one of their countrymen from treating another human being the way the germans treated the jews, russian pows, poofs, gypos and other so called undesirables, and said they were probably mentally unstable and unfit to command.the one thing i can never understand, is that when the jews finally realised they were being persecuted and were going to be sent to camps to be executed, why the hell didn’t they all stick together and charge the germans? they could have kicked the fuck out of the germans, although there would have been some loss of life but less than there was in the end. i’d sooner go down fighting and take as many as i could with me! is it true the italian tanks had five gears? one forward and four in reverse?
cor! it’s dead in here! or is everyone italian and backed out of here? lol
I have read the string here of the variuos comments. A good thing we are all no longer at war. I think it was all pretty horrible for the participants at that time.
Quite frankly the Soviet Union in the form of Josef Stalin was the problem. The SU atacked Finland because it wanted to expand its own borders away from the proximity of Leningrad. The story about the Finns attackiung the SU was been told numerous times by the SU apparatchiks even in 1971 when I was in Leningrad. I found it laughable given the size of the military forces involved.
With regard to the SU declaration of war on Japan in 1945:
– the person who mentioned revenge - you might be right.
– Zhukov (I believe) absolutely thrashed the Japanese army on the Manchurian Border with Siberia in the late 1930’s just prior to being sent to the gulag or just after (I forget) and long prior to becoming Field Marshal responsible for defense of the SU against the Nazi Armies. After Zhukov’s action the Japanese were never any threat. Stalin was, if anything, a nasty vile murderous opportunist.
In another post…there were mistakes in ads for the Army or victory Day…
They should have used either #3 or #7 of these series of pics…Showing true warrior drama in #7…and #3 a sentry looking over a town defending against any enemy…THOSE are the type of pics that you use to promote patriotism…not stealing pics from TIME-LIFE (german chucking grenade)…
Russia has rich history, with brave and loyal people that SACRIFICED!!!! Those people need to be honored, and not forgotten…and taking shortcuts by stealing pics instead of WORKING for them only makes their sacrifices in vain.
Shame on those Ad-men, and Russian culture for letting them get away with it.
Russians killed every German prison !! They didnt mercy, and tehy sucked ar war !
why are you all dissing each other?! the war is over!! thank god. no one, or country, is better then another. WWII is in the past, lets leave it there and never let the evil that was Hitler come to power again. what he did was wrong, we all can agree with that, but that DOES NOT mean that every German is a Nazi! Geeez, chill out and act your age! It’s so ignorant to judge a person on their countries past, it DOES NOT mean it’s their present!
Regretfully, it seems impossible to bring to reason agressive people here, for they are not here to learn, but to express their disgust to what they find here.
Unfortunately, the comments on this site seem to have a degree of stupidity matched only, i guess, by the news on mail.ru.
“Karelia, Russia during WW2″
Well, well.
Should we recall what a 1939 Winter War of Soviet invasion of Finland was? Relation between Finland, Karelia, Russia etc.
USSR was expelled from League of Nations as an aggressor for doing that.
But these jerks seem to be proud of that.
What a nation.
Photoshop!
History belongs to those who had written it.. Napoleon 1. noone right here. you are all blind and deaf/ pity fagets. both. russians and west ones.