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Eastern Front; Part of the European theatre of World War II: Clockwise from top left: Soviet T-34 tanks storming Poznań, 1945; German Tiger I tanks during the Battle of Kursk, 1943; German Stuka dive bombers on the Eastern Front, 1943; German Einsatzgruppen death squad murdering Jews in Ukraine, 1942; Wilhelm Keitel signing the German Instrument of Surrender, 1945; Soviet troops at the Battle ...
The Great Patriotic War ( Russian: Великая Отечественная война, romanized : Vělikaja Otěčestvěnnaja vojna) [a] is a term used in Russia and some other former republics of the Soviet Union [1] to describe the conflict fought during the period from 22 June 1941 to 9 May 1945 along the many fronts of the Eastern Front ...
To mark the victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War, I order a parade of troops of the Army, Navy and the Moscow Garrison, the Victory Parade, on June 24, 1945, at Moscow's Red Square. Marching on parade shall be the combined regiments of all the fronts, a People's Commissariat of National Defense combined regiment, the Soviet Navy ...
The Museum of the Great Patriotic War, also known as the Victory Museum ( Russian: Музей Победы, romanized : Muzey Pobedy ), [1] is a history museum located in Moscow at Poklonnaya Gora. The building was designed by architect Anatoly Polyansky. [2] Work on the museum began on March 3, 1986, and the museum was opened to the public on ...
Raising a Flag over the Reichstag (Russian: Знамя Победы над Рейхстагом, romanized: Znamya Pobedy nad Reykhstagom, lit. 'Victory Banner over the Reichstag') is a World War II photograph, taken during the Battle of Berlin on 2 May 1945. It depicts a Soviet soldier raising the flag of the Soviet Union over the Reichstag.
The National Museum of the History of Ukraine in the Second World War (Ukrainian: Національний музей історії України у Другій світовій війні) is a memorial complex commemorating the German-Soviet War located in the southern outskirts of the Pechersk district of Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine, on the picturesque hills on the right-bank of the ...
Patriotic Civil War tokens typically displayed a patriotic slogan or image on one or both sides. Since the majority of these tokens were minted in Union states, the slogans and images were decidedly pro-Union. Some common examples of slogans found on patriotic tokens are "The Union Must and Shall Be Preserved", [6] "Union For Ever", [7] and
7. Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014) Hands-down one of the best entries in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Captain America: The Winter Soldier tells the story of a superhuman World War II ...