Latest posts tagged with #SovietRedArmy on Bluesky
31 March 1943, the Battle of Rzhev, one of the bloodiest engagements of World War II, concluded. It lasted over 14 months and came down in history as one of the bloodiest battles.
#Rzhev #BattleofRzhev #WW2 #WW2 #USSR #SovietUnion #RedArmy #SovietRedArmy #Victory #Liberation
In the photo is the medical instructor of the 2nd Leningrad Partisan Brigade, Dmitrieva Maria Nikolaevna.
On 30 July 1942, she was awarded the Medal "For Courage."
On 6 April 1985, she was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War, 2nd class.
#USSR #SovietUnion #Medic #RedArmy #SovietRedArmy
Cleaning the streets between the Reichstag and the Brandenburg Gate by the inhabitants of Berlin, Germany, May 1945
Photograph: Valery Faminsky
Published in @guardian 14 March 2026
#War #Defeat #Berlin #Germany #USSR #SovietUnion #SovietRedArmy #RedArmy #Victory #Liberation #Reichstag
Wartime (World War Two) poster produced by the Communist Party of Great Britain.
#War #WorldWarTwo #WW2 #CommunistParty #GreatBritain #CPGB #Allies #USSR #SovietUnion #SovietRedArmy #RedArmy
Soviet traffic controllers in liberated Germany and Berlin.
First three images: Lydia Spivak, Lyubov Rusanova, Maria Limanskaya, respectively
#Berlin #Germany #RedArmy #SovietRedArmy #Victory #Liberation #LydiaSpivak #BrandenburgGate
I got the majority of the basing done on these 15mm WWII Soviet Cossack riflemen.
#MiniaturePainting #Miniatures #Wargaming #Tabletop #TabletopWargaming #15mm #15mmWargaming #WWII #EasternFront #FlamesOfWar #BattlefrontMiniatures #Battlegroup #Stalingrad #Soviet #SovietRedArmy #RedArmy #Cossack
"I Swear to Defeat the Enemy!" Soviet poster created by artist Irakli Toidze in 1943 during the Great Patriotic War / World War II.
It was published by "Iskusstvo" in Moscow and Leningrad, with 150,000 copies printed.
#USSR #SovietUnion #SovietRedArmy #War #WW2
Red Army soldiers on combat duty during the Great Patriotic War / World War Two, 1944. Reproduced from Soviet Photo magazine 1965. Iosif Fetisov.
#SovietRedArmy #RedArmy #Great #Patriotic #War #WW2 #Soviet #Photo #Victory #Liberation
First shading pass on the first set of 15mm WWII Cossack riflemen is done.
#MiniaturePainting #Miniatures #Wargaming #Tabletop #TabletopWargaming #15mm #15mmWargaming #WWII #WW2 #WorldWar2 #EasternFront #FlamesOfWar #FoW #Battlefront #BattlefrontMiniatures #Soviet #SovietRedArmy #RedArmy #Cossack
I started work on some 15mm WWII cossacks.
#MiniaturePainting #Miniatures #Wargaming #Tabletop #TabletopWargaming #15mm #15mmWargaming #WWII #WW2 #WorldWar2 #EasternFront #FlamesOfWar #FoW #Battlefront #BattlefrontMiniatures #Soviet #SovietRedArmy #RedArmy #Cossack
"We shall take their place!" USSR, 1941. Vladimir Alexandrovich Serov
#USSR #SovietUnion #SovietPoster #Women #SovietRedArmy #RedArmy #War #Combatants
USSR Ambassador to Britain Ivan Maisky addresses British workers engaged in manufacturing tanks for the Soviet Union. Birmingham, 1943.
#USSR #SovietUnion #Maisky #Ambassador #Factory #Birmingham #Tanks #War #RedArmy #SovietRedArmy #Britain #Alliance
"Thank you son!" Smolensk Region. USSR. 1943. Mark Redkin
#SovietRedArmy #RedArmy #Liberators #Liberation #Victory #USSR #SovietUnion #Smolensk
Soviet leader Iosif Stalin inspects a SU-152 produced by the Chelyabinsk Kirov Factory (ChKZ) and delivered to the Kremlin, Moscow, USSR, 8 September 1943.
#SU152 #SovietRedArmy #RedArmy #Chelyabinsk #Kirov #Kremlin #Moscow #WW2 #Stalin
Soviet guerilla commanders plan operations behind the lines, January 1944
#Guerilla #Partisans #Commanders #Women #USSR #SovietUnion #Resistance #Offensive #RedArmy #SovietRedArmy
Soviet sniper affectionately holding a Mosin-Nagant M1891/30 sniper rifle, standard issue sniper rifle for the Soviet Red Army during the Great Patriotic War / World War II.
#USSR #SovietUnion #RedArmy #SovietRedArmy #Sniper #War #WW2
The Siege of Leningrad was finally lifted 27 January 1944, after 872 days, by the Soviet Red Army.
Nearly one and a half million died during the siege by German and Finnish forces.
#SiegeofLeningrad #Siege #Leningrad #USSR #SovietUnion #SovietRedArmy #RedArmy #Germany #Finland
Celebration of victorious Soviet soldiers in Leningrad. Unknown author, May 1945, Leningrad, USSR, MAMM/MDF.
#USSR #SovietUnion #SovietRedArmy #RedArmy #Victory #Liberation #Leningrad #Stalin
Ржевский мемориал Советскому солдату. 🌹 🇷🇺
The Rzhev Memorial to the Soviet Soldier 🌹 🇷🇺
#RzhevMemorial #Rzhev #USSR #SovietUnion #SovietRedArmy #RedArmy #SovietSoldier #Soviet #Soldier
"Enemy of the people"
A Red Army soldier escorts the former burgomaster of Feodosia, Vasily Sofronovich Gruzinov.
Subsequently executed by firing squad for collaboration in mass murder of Soviet citizens under occupation.
#Collaborator #Execution #Executed #Traitor #Nazis #RedArmy #SovietRedArmy
Viktor Abakumov, head of the Smersh Main Directorate (right), and Lieutenant General Alexander Vadis, head of the Smersh Main Directorate of the 1st Belorussian Front,
#Abakumov #Smersh #SovietRedArmy #Berlin #Hitler #EvaBraun #MGB #Victory #Liberation #Germany #USSR
"Arrest of a traitor", Telč, Czechoslovakia, 9 May 1945. Author: Aron Zamsky
#Europe #Czechoslovakia #SovietRedArmy #RedArmy #Partisans #Liberation #Victory #Freedom
Military traffic controller Maria Shalneva on Alexanderplatz in Berlin, 1945.
#Berlin #Germany #SovietRedArmy #redArmy #USSR #SovietUnion #Alexanderplatz #Traffic
"Glory to the Red Army - Protector of the New World!", Czechoslovak poster, 1945
#RedArmy #SovietRedArmy #Czechoslovak #Czechoslovakia #USSR #SovietUnion #Prague #Liberation #Freedom
During the Siege of Leningrad, Moika River Embankment, Leningrad, USSR, 1942. Boris Kudoyarov
The wall poster reads "Red Army Warrior - Save Us!"
#Leningrad #Siege #USSR #SovietUnion #Moika #River #Embankment #RedArmy #SovietRedArmy
"Surrender" (also known as "Capitulation of the Fascist Troops in Berlin"), an oil painting created in 1946 by the Soviet artist Pyotr Aleksandrovich Krivonogov.
#Surrender #Berlin #Germany #Painter #Painting #Arts #Artist #SovietRedArmy #RedArmy #USSR #SovietUnion
"Guarding the Capital", Red Square, Moscow.
The time of the Battle of Moscow during The Great Patriotic War.
In the background, we can see the Spasskaya (Saviour) Tower of the Kremlin and the Lenin Mausoleum.
#USSR #SovietUnion #SovietRedArmy #Moscow #RedSquare #Russia #Kremlin
Mikhail Vasilyevich Frunze, Chairman of the Revolutionary Military Council of the USSR and People's Commissar for Military and Naval Affairs, greets the soldiers of the Red Army. 1925
#Frunze #MikhailFrunze #RedArmy #SovietRedArmy #USSR #SovietUnion #SovietPower
On 16 September 1943, Soviet troops liberated Bryansk. The main forces of the partisan detachments joined the Red Army and continued to participate in combat operations.
#Bryansk #HeroCity #SovietRedArmy #RedArmy #Partisans #USSR #SovietUnion #Victory #Liberation #Russia
Parade of athletes in liberated Czechoslovakia.
#Parade #Athletes #Czechoslovakia #Liberated #Liberation #Prague #USSR #SovietUnion #SovietRedArmy #RedArmy
