Russia - The Great Patriotic War - mile 5,101 - 14 June 2012

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June 14th 2012

Published: October 11th 2012

The roadsides are littered with war memorials. They come in all shapes and sizes: tanks, rocket launchers, MIG fighter jets, large Soviet era statues, small star topped stones engraved with names. This, south-west, corner of Russia saw a lot of action during WWII and was occupied by the Germans. We tend to erect monuments honouring the people who fought but the Russians also genuinely honour the e... Read Full Entry

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The Motherland Calls

the first and most famous Russian war poster, the test on the sheet is the Red Army oath

an individual bomb shelter

so the lathe operator could continue working during an air raid - they modified the tractor factory to mend tanks

sniper Vasily Zaitsev's rifle & belongings

as in the film Enemy at the Gate

lithograph plates ready to print leaflet announcing the sucessful capture of Stalingrad.

“Even Death Can't Overcome Them”

-Monument to Komsomol Member (Union of Communist Youth), 3 young people suffer the death of their friend

Square of the Fallen Fighters - the last poplar tree

the only tree left after Stalingrad Battle - reminisent of the Last Tree in the woods ate the Somme. Behind is the Brothers' Obelisk

Square of the Fallen Fighters - the Brothers Grave

a mass grave to the defenders of the city in the 1919 Revolution. 100 defenders of Stalingrad were buried here in 1942. Its right in the centre of Volgograd on one of the main promenades

25th October 2012

Carol
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The Russians do like their big memorials and they do them so well, some very impressive statuary.

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