Red Army troops advance during the battle From a folder of historic cards published in 1985 on the 40th anniversary of the victory of the...

Bird Falls Though in the morning clouds of smoke still curl Above the blown-up ruins of our home, And caught by deadly cannonfire, a bird...

Soviet stamp Issued in 1968 in honour of the 50th anniversary of the Red Army. It honours the great victory at Stalingrad in February,...

From a folder of historic cards published in 1985 on the 40th anniversary of the victory of the USSR in the Great Patriotic War we...

The guns were especially active in the morning hours, when people were going to work, and the toll of victims - men, women and children -...

From a folder of historic cards published in 1985 on the 40th anniversary of the victory of the USSR in the Great Patriotic War we...

In a disgraceful affront to the memory of the Red Army soldiers who died to liberate Bulgaria from Nazism and fascism in World War II --...

In between battles, peaceful duels proceeded over a chessboard. The photo was taken in 1942 on the Northwestern Front by Lake Ilmen. From...

From a folder of historic cards published in 1985 on the 40th anniversary of the victory of the USSR in the Great Patriotic War we...

As we noted in a previous post, November 6 is the anniversary of the liberation of Kiev from the Nazis by the Red Army in 1943. It was...

The Estonian capital of Tallinn was liberated from Nazi occupation by the Red Army on September 22, 1944. Among the Red Army heroes who...

Today marks the anniversary of the end of the Battle of Kursk (August 23, 1943) where the soldiers of the Red Army emerged victorious at...

Red Army troops in action during the liberation of Sevastopol From a folder of historic cards published in 1985 on the 40th anniversary...

Hiroshima Day: The Freedom From War Coalition invites you to join us in solemn remembrance of the bombing of Japan’s cities at the close...

Monument to Hero of the Soviet Union Imants Sudmalis, Liepaja, Latvian SSR, USSR 1978 -- Daily LIFT #997 From the Great Soviet...

Marshals of the Soviet Union remember the great triumph of the Red Army in July-August 1943 that ended all Nazi hopes for victory on the...

Šķaune Memorial to the Red Army Soldiers and Partisans at the Warriors' Cemetery, Šķaune, Latvian SSR, USSR 1978 -- Daily LIFT #995 A...

Defenders of the Fortress of Brest, painting P. Krivonogov, USSR 1951 -- Daily LIFT #992 Pyotr Aleksandrovich Krivonogov (1910-1967), a...

A delegation of Soviet collective farmers delivering tanks manufactured using their donated money to Red Army soldiers in Moscow,...

From a folder of historic cards published in 1985 on the 40th anniversary of the victory of the USSR in the Great Patriotic War we...