First Western Photographer in Moscow
During World War II Soviet Union was tough on letting foreign, especially Western journalists entering Russian and especially Moscow. They all were meant to be spies and so on.
And then only after the death of Stalin in 1953 first photographers were allowed to come to Moscow and make first shots of the Soviet State. This is from the first of the first, coming from France and letting the world see the people of Moscow for the first time for ten or so years.
Blockade of Leningrad
70 years ago the city of Saint-Petersburg was called Leningrad and when the Second World War was triggered off, Leningrad was forced to withstand the fascist terror and 3 years long enemy’s push. Germans decided to stab second country’s most populated city which as well had been the country’s weapon broker. But they didn’t choose any aggressive tactics and made a blockade that lasted more than 850 days and led to starvation and constant disorders within the city.
Russian Santa Protects Russia
During the World War 2 Russian soldiers had their special Christmas and New Year postcards.
On some of such Santa looked not very peaceful in his solidarity attempt to defeat the “malicious attacker”. So probably those are the only ones where Santa can hold a machine gun or be in some other furious acts.
War at Ceramic Tiles
In Rostov city Russia an epic forty-thirty years old ceramic tiles artwork has been found in the underground passages.
It tells various stories from World War 2 in ultra realistic style.
Probably that’s one of a kind in the whole world, I doubt somewhere else there are places where this material was used to describe the war happenings.
Children of War
From time to time photos of child soldiers in Africa holding AK-47s or some other kind of weapon appear here and there provoking outrage and compassion from the Western public. But just a few decades ago, during World War II, there were often occasions of Russian kids fighting in the regular army against the Nazis.
Generally speaking, children were not allowed to join the combat army—but many exceptions were made. Many kids tried to run away from their homes “to the War” but most such cases were eventually captured by military police and returned back to their homes. While some did succeed in joining the army, it was often the case for these runaways to get lost in the woods or shot along their journey.
Also, from time to time, soldiers found children in the devastated and burnt down villages of the Soviet Union. While there was a directive for them to send such children to established orphanages, still sometimes such boys were simply incorporated into the active combat units. Specially sized uniforms were tailored for them and they were entrusted with guns. Some of those boys joined the army at nine or eleven, and stayed with their regiment through all the war front, from Russia to Germany, until the war ended and they were discharged at fourteen or sixteen, often with medals of honor.
Russian Terminator
Did you know that initially the terminator robot was built by Soviet soldiers during World War2. The construction operation was held on the secret army base, on the wooden table between Russian tanks. Even back there he already looked like Arnie.
Don’t believe? We have photo report from back then.
WW2 Aerial Shots
Shots mainly made by “Luftwaffe” pilots during WW2 while flying over Russian cities.
Nazi Fail
There are young people who sympathize nazis in Russia, like in many other countries. They don’t tolerate anyone not belonging to the white race, wear big boots and short haircuts and usually celebrate Hitler’s birthday. Stop, it seems here they are failing, as was proved by some Russian anti-nazi blog post.
Russian guy collected the various photos from the WW2 where and showed that Nazi troops have consisted from those who modern nazi lovers have to hate, so preaching Hitler should be totally illogical in their case.
So now Russian internet nazis seems to stuck in dilemma - can Hitler be their idol or not?
Below, one can find that compilation.
St. Petersburg: Now and Then 2
Sergei Larenkov, the author of “Petersburg Now and Then” has released the second part of the modern city photos combined with the photo made during the city siege at World War2.
The Sword of Victory
These days there were huge celebrations for the Victory Day - the annual date when they mark the victory of Russia in World War 2. In Russia people got really amused when someone tells them that World War 2 was won by allies. Every Russia, from schoolboy to oldest granddad know that the World War 2 victory is Russian.
So right after the war ended the decided to commemorate the victory in art too. They wanted to erect something as big as never was done before. So the idea came to someone to build not one but a chain of monuments and place them in different locations to shock the imagination of people with the scale of this creation.
And so it has been done. Three huge tall monuments were build in three locations - from Ural mountains in the central Russia to Berlin, Germany. All three monuments were connected by one item. It was a huge metal sword of victory.
Let’s go inside to see all three in detail.
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