r/SovietPhotosOfWW2 • u/Accurate_Motor_89 • 9d ago
Prisoners of war A Soviet cavalryman grabs a German POW by the cuff as they round up stragglers in the city in the Nikopol, Ukraine, February 1944.
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r/SovietPhotosOfWW2 • u/thom430 • Oct 22 '25
No Politics
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Since the sub has gotten some more new users, we would like to clarify the current singular rule:
No politics. This subreddit is for displaying and discussing interesting photos of the Soviet military. It is not for endless, often toxic discussions surrounding the Soviet military.
It is not a place for folks with a chip on their shoulder to endlessly complain about the Soviets being big meanies.
It is even less so a subreddit for modern politics.
Users will be banned and muted for breaking this rule.
r/SovietPhotosOfWW2 • u/Accurate_Motor_89 • 9d ago
Europe Drawing by Zinovy Tolkachev depicting a Soviet soldier embracing a liberated concentration camp survivor. Zinovy participated in the liberation of the Majdanek and Auschwitz camps.
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r/SovietPhotosOfWW2 • u/Accurate_Motor_89 • 11d ago
Civilians A funeral service for four partisans, two of whom were Jews, in a forest near Pinsk, Belarus, U.S.S.R, 1944.
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r/SovietPhotosOfWW2 • u/Accurate_Motor_89 • 12d ago
USSR Cossacks of the Soviet 72nd Cavalry Division. Crimea, 1942.
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In the center of the 2nd photo is Major General V.I. Kniga, commander of the 72nd Cavalry Division.
r/SovietPhotosOfWW2 • u/Accurate_Motor_89 • 13d ago
Partisans Soviet partisans and soldiers with German POWs in Minsk, Belarus, July 1944.
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r/SovietPhotosOfWW2 • u/Accurate_Motor_89 • Jun 28 '26
Prisoners of war Soviet soldiers of the 4th Guards Kuban Cossack Cavalry Corps of General Issa Pliev, part of the 3rd Ukrainian Front, escort captured German and Romanian soldiers.
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r/SovietPhotosOfWW2 • u/yuzhnozaporozhets • Jun 07 '26
Tanks Deputy commander of the 186th Tank Brigade, Major Nikolai Sergeevich Shalygin (1910–1943), next to a «Matilda » Mk. II tank, Oct 11 1942. From September 6, 1942, the brigade (equipped with T-60 and Mk. II tanks) was pulled from the Western Front into the Stavka reserve near Mozhaisk for refitting.
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r/SovietPhotosOfWW2 • u/yuzhnozaporozhets • Jun 04 '26
Tanks German children gather around a couple ISU-152s, belonging to the 232nd Independent Guards Heavy Tank and Breaching Regiment of the 25th Tank Corps, Berlin direction, April-May 1945.
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r/SovietPhotosOfWW2 • u/yuzhnozaporozhets • Jun 03 '26
Soldiers of Lieutenant Sabirzyan Nurmukhametovich Aminev's rifle platoon [523rd Rifle Regiment, 188th Rifle Division, 82nd Rifle Corps, 37th Army, 3rd Ukrainian Front] going into an attack. Yassy-Kishinyov Operation, Romania, August-September 1944.
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r/SovietPhotosOfWW2 • u/yuzhnozaporozhets • May 23 '26
A young Red Army soldier, serving under the Voronezh Front, shortly after being awarded the «For Courage» medal. Spring-Summer 1943.
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r/SovietPhotosOfWW2 • u/xcherry_wavesx • May 07 '26
Help!
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My great grandfather was a ussr soldier during ww2. He received several medals but his house was looted after his death
Can anyone help identify the medals shown in the image?
r/SovietPhotosOfWW2 • u/yuzhnozaporozhets • Apr 24 '26
Senior Sergeant and tank ace Ivan Lyubushkin, pictured by his T-34 near Moscow as a part of the 4th Separate Tank Brigade, late 1941. One of the top scoring aces of the 1st Guards Tank Brigade (formerly 4.T.BR.), he destroyed at least 20 Nazi tanks before being KIA on 30.06.1942, aged 23.
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r/SovietPhotosOfWW2 • u/Front-Coconut-8196 • Apr 15 '26
A German General and a young Soviet boy who took him prisoner. Berlin, 1945
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r/SovietPhotosOfWW2 • u/yuzhnozaporozhets • Apr 14 '26
Aleksandr Rodimtsev and his Guardsmen at the West Bank of the Volga, Stalingrad, late 1942.
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r/SovietPhotosOfWW2 • u/yuzhnozaporozhets • Apr 03 '26
A T-60 light tank, part of the elite 1st Guards Tank Brigade (former 4th Tank Brigade), prepares for an ambush at the approaches of Moscow, November-December 1941.
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r/SovietPhotosOfWW2 • u/yuzhnozaporozhets • Mar 28 '26
Soldiers serving under the 1073rd Guards Rifle Regiment, 8th Guards Rifle Division «Ivan Panfilov» pictured during a New Years’ Eve feast after the bitter fighting for Kryukovo-Kamyanka, December 31st 1941 / Pyotr Logvinenko (1908-1993), political commissar, during the morning of January 01st, 1942.
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