Soviet’s of the 19th Infantry Division crossing the Danube. October 1944.
The 80’s Soviet…
A couple of Soviet guards with their AKS-74, the S designating the side-folding stock. This style of stock would also be used on the shorter AKS-74U. Many AK clones and copies from the infamous Khyber Pass region have this style of stock. It’s cheap, quick and easy to make versus having to stockpile wood and carve into a stock shape.
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A female military correspondent interviews a rifle unit going to the front. Correspondents were attached to the army’s political administration, so she is wearing the sleeve star insignia and black-edged collar tab normally worn by kommisars and politruks. The solider in the peaked cap is a senior sergeant, evident from the three triangles on his collar tabs.
georgy-konstantinovich-zhukov:
‘The man on the cover is the basic element of the great Russian drive to Berlin. The Red Army is powerful with guns, tanks, trucks, tactics and generals but this one moves all them. He is tough, seasoned, well-trained and a little fanatical. He has one idea right now and that is to keep the drive going. Last week the armies he made up, commanded by Marshal Zhukov, were threatening the capital of Nazi Germany, Berlin.’
“Study the Soviet Union, to advance to world-class levels of science” Chinese science education poster, 1958
Soviet Red Army Tatar cavalrymen take cover behind their horses on the Eastern Front.
Soviet Video Games
Young pioneers in Kazakh SSR.
The Young Pioneer Organization was a youth organization of the Soviet Union. Almost every Soviet child was a participant. The Young Pioneers had rituals and traditions such as the Young Pioneer pledge, the Young Pioneer parade, banner making, and flag raising. There were different ranks of the organization that the children could advance to.
Another picture of sailors of the Black Sea Fleet.
They must be making a bet on something.
