"Christmas 1916: Australian observation post near Flers, Battle of the Somme".rtist: William Barnes Wallen
Stalingrad, USSR, 1947. Photographer: Robert Kapa
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The head of a Japanese soldier impaled on a stake by the Americans in front of the turret of a destroyed Japanese tank.Guadalcanal Island, 1943. Photographer: Ralph Morse
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Harvesting. USSR, 1941
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More than 80 years ago, an unknown American soldier took a picture of his military service during World War II.
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A mother and child in Hiroshima, 1945
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Two German soldiers walk down the street of the French village of Saint-Simon, past cows that have been killed by artillery shells. France, 1940
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Red Army soldiers on the throne of the Manchu Emperor Pu Yi. September 1945
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Saint-Malo. France, 1944. Author: Lee Miller.
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A veteran of World War II. France, late 1940s.
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Residents of Lviv greet Polish Governor Hans Frank with bread and salt, 1942
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Dolphin catchers in the Black Sea. Tuapse, USSR, 1947
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Vasily Isaakovich Talash (also known as Grandfather Talash (December 25, 1844, Mozyr District, Minsk Province — August 23, 1946, Minsk) was a partisan fighter in the Soviet-Polish and Great Patriotic Wars, and a national hero of Belarus.
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Pavel Yakshiyants was the organizer of the bus hijacking in Ordzhonikidze on December 1, 1988. The terrorists demanded that the authorities pay a ransom, provide a plane, and allow them to fly abroad.
Criminal history in Soviet Russia and the USSR.
Mishka Yaponchik (real name — Moishe-Yakov Volfovich Vinnitsky; October 30 (November 11), 1891, Odessa — August 4, 1919, Voznesensk, Kherson province) was an Odessa raider, anarchist.
Criminal history in Soviet Russia and the USSR.
Dušan Gavran (1922, Budel-Gornji – mid-December 1942,Bosnia Krajina) was a partisan during thePeople's Liberation War of Yugoslavia, a National Hero of Yugoslavia.
Heroes of the People's Liberation War of Yugoslavia against the Axis powers during World War II in Europe.
Radislav Jugović (1915; Kosić, Kingdom of Montenegro – July 1943, Maglaj) was a Yugoslav soldier in the Royal Army and the People's Liberation Army of Yugoslavia, and a National Hero of Yugoslavia.
Heroes of the People's Liberation War of Yugoslavia against the Axis powers during World War II in Europe.
Albert Kupsha (March 13, 1926; d.Smerdynia , Leningrad Province — February 14, 1942, Leningrad region ) — the Soviet pioneer is a hero, a partisan.
The All-Union Pioneer Organization named after V. I. Lenin (abbreviation: VPO im. Lenin) was a mass voluntary children's communist organization in the USSR. It was established by the decision of the Second All-Russian Conference of the Russian Communist Youth League, which adopted the resolution "Children's Movement" on May 19, 1922. Here are the young heroes from this organization.
Evgeny Petrovich Petrankov (1925, Dobrush — May 1943, Gomel) was a young pioneer hero of the Great Patriotic War and an underground partisan.
The All-Union Pioneer Organization named after V. I. Lenin (abbreviation: VPO im. Lenin) was a mass voluntary children's communist organization in the USSR. It was established by the decision of the Second All-Russian Conference of the Russian Communist Youth League, which adopted the resolution "Children's Movement" on May 19, 1922. Here are the young heroes from this organization.
Kliment Yefremovich Voroshilov (January 23 [February 4], 1881, Verkhneye, Yekaterinoslav Governorate — December 2, 1969, Moscow) was a Russian revolutionary, Soviet military, state, and party leader, a participant in the Civil War, and one of the first Marshals of the Soviet Union (1935).
Vasily Pavlovich Yubkin (January 1, 1920 - February 3, 1968) was a participant in the Great Patriotic War, a tank commander in the 17th Guards Tank Brigade of the 1st Guards Tank Corps of the 65th Army of the 1st Belorussian Front, and a Hero of the Soviet Union.
Sergey Vladimirovich Stepanov (born 1977; from Khamkhar, Nukutsky District, Irkutsk Region)
News of a special military operation.
Damir Nazirovich Islamov (October 13, 1996, Leninogorsk, Republic of Tatarstan — March 7, 2022,LPR) — commander of a T-72B1 tank, part of the 163rd Guards Tank Regiment of the 150th Motorized Rifle Division, Senior Lieutenant, Hero of the Russian Federation (2022, posthumously).
News of a special military operation.
Soviet commanders with a red banner on a blown-up Finnish bunker (Sk-2) in the Summa-Hotinen area, 1940
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A unit of the Latvian SS Legion (Lettische SS-Freiwilligen-Legion) surrenders its weapons after being captured in Rennes on the island of Bornholm in the Baltic Sea.Denmark, 1945.
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