Taken in Moscow on June 22, Soviet citizens were on the streets radio, listening to the announcement that Nazi Germany had begun to invade, their faces filled with surprise, fear, and worry, and their fate and future were confused.
On the Eastern Front at the beginning of the war, the Soviets were ill-prepared, and within 18 days the Germans had penetrated 600 kilometers.
In November 1941, winter came, soviet soldiers resisting the German attack during the defense of Leningrad.
The German infantry in Operation Barbarossa, with a burned-out Soviet wooden house behind them.
This photograph is famous for the fact that the figure in the photograph is of a Soviet military commissar named Alexey Yeremenko, who was then a lieutenant political commissar of the 220th Regiment of the 4th Infantry Division of the 18th Army of the Soviet Red Army.
The photo was taken on July 12, 1942, when he was leading a company to fight the Germans, holding aloft a TT-33 pistol in his hand and shouting: "Comrades, rush with me!" ”。 A few minutes after the photograph was taken, the political commissar fell under the bullets of the German army and died heroically.
During the Defense of Stalingrad, the Balmaray Fountain on the stalingrad railway station square destroyed by the Luftwaffe bombing, the sculpture on the fountain is called "Children's Round Dance".
Artillery positions of the Second Belorussian Front in 1944.
In October 1944, the Soviets had advanced to Yugoslavia, and in the liberated Yugoslav village of Omoljica, a Soviet captain, "Sergei Ivanov", picked up a young boy.
In July 1943, the Soviets began to counterattack, and in the Battle of Kursk, the largest tank duel broke out, the I-2 fighters of the Soviet Air Force attacking the Germans on the ground.
In February 1945, Auschwitz concentration camp was liberated by the Soviet army, this photo is a concentration camp just after liberation, the Soviet army military doctors and nurses have been in place.
In March 1945, the Battle of Breslau, the Soviet army was attacking. The Battle of Fortress Breslau was a siege that lasted 3 months before the Germans surrendered, only 3 days before germany surrendered unconditionally, and was the last major city the Germans held on to the Eastern Front.
February 4, 1945, Yalta Conference, Big Three.
In September 1942, a German soldier rested in a village near Stalingrad.
German Panzer 3 in North Africa.