#Вели́кая Оте́чественная война́

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"TWO MILLION SOLDIERS in Russia's winter army have not even gone into action yet, Germans report as they try vainly to halt the disaster overtaking the Nazi Southern group of armies, where 500.000 men are trying to escape Soviet jaws." - from the Toronto Star. October 27, 1943. Page 1.

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“Forward, bogatyrs, for the sake of the Motherland” [Bogatyrs (knights) are the heroes of ancient folk tales.] The Great Patriotic War-Вели́кая Оте́чественная война́ https://theowlcriminology.wordpress.com/2019/07/18/the-great-patriotic-war-великая-отечественная-война/

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"HE DON'T SAY NUTHIN', HE JUST KEEPS ROLLING ALONG," Toronto Star. March 17, 1943. Page 6. ---- A tank labelled OLD MAN RUSSIA rolls forward blasting and conquering all before it. Onlookers carrying documents marked POST WAR PLANS and DESIGNS FOR A NEW WORLD look aghast and confused. Only a month after the Soviet victory at Stalingrad, observers from Britain, her empire, and the United States worry about post-war Soviet plans.

#battle of stalingrad #russian front #eastern front #soviet offensive #красная армия #red army #Вели́кая Оте́чественная война́ #Рабо́че-крестья́нская Кра́сная а́рмия #great patriotic war #soviet union #world war II #stalinism #postwar planning #editorial cartoons #political cartoons #josef stalin

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"RUSS INFANTRY AMBUSH SOLID WALL OF TANKS DESTROY 71 WITH FIRE," Toronto Star. May 20, 1942. Page 1. ---- Timoshenko's Army Reports Important New Gains in Kharkov Battle - Germans Drive to South to Ease Soviet Pressure ---- SOVIET A.A. GUNNER KULIER AND 8TH VICTIM --- Moscow, May 20 - Thousands of tanks and hundreds of thousands of men fought in an infernal cauldron of destruction before Kharkov today. The German high command was throwing new masses of machines and men into the battle in a vain attempt to stop the Russian advance. Tank fought tank and man fought man in such a tangle that planes, engaged in a war of their own over the smoke-clouded front, could not intervene. The Moscow radio said Hitler had hurled every available tank in the battle which blazed into new fury at strategic points along the whole 1,800-mile Russian front. Field Marshal Fedor von Bock's German forces were reported "in flight" along the 100-mile front before Kharkov. In one sector German tanks attacked in a solid wall against the Russian centre and flanks, Russian infantrymen, holding their fire, took the shock of the attack and, from a thousand foxholes, leaped out with hand grenades.

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“Red Troops Leaen to Use Anti-Tank Rifles,” Ottawa Journal. August 7, 1942. Page 1. ---- Russian Army reserves gather around a Soviet instructor as he teaches them the art of using their anti-tank rifles. These men are part of the huge pool of reserves being trained under Russia's universal compulsory military service which was started October 1, 1941, by Premier Joseph Stalin.

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“Russians Use Air Sledges to Attack Nazis’ Rear,” Kingston Whig-Standard. March 26, 1942. Page 10. ---- This radiophoto from Moscow shows a Red Army detachment in air sledges operating in the rear of the German forces. The air sledge is more or less of an innovation of the Russian Army that is proving highly practical in the current winter warfare. Notice how the men are deployed with a machine-gunner covering them.

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“The Red Army's R.M.C.," Kingston Whig-Standard. January 27, 1942. Page 10. ---- A view of the imposing main building of the Frunze Military Academy in Moscow. Here are schooled the young officers of the Red Army, and accent in their schooling has been on mechanized warfare. Note huge "tank” atop the building in foreground. Alumni of this school are leading the men who are making the German war machine back up along a 1,000-mile front today.

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“They Just Keep Rolling Along,” Kingston Whig-Standard. March 26, 1942. Page 17. -----  Motorcyclists of the Soviet Red Army are shown leading a column of armored cars on the far-flung front where the Red Army set the Nazi war machine in reverse and has kept it operating that way through the winter. The armored cars are painted white to blend in with the snow-covered terrain.

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"OVER THE DNIEPER and on in pursuit of the retreating German army go these Russian guns, being loaded on to rafts on the east bank of the river, somewhere along its "middle reaches." Moscow reports today state the Nazis have lost all hope of holding Dnieper line." - from the Toronto Star. October 14, 1943. Page 2.

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"Russians Drive Thousands of Nazis Into Dnieper," Owen Sound Sun-Times. September 29, 1943. Page 8. ---- Thousands of German troops, pursued by the Red Army. have died on the banks of the Dnieper river or perished in its waters. The above picture of the Russian troops pursuing the enemy, was taken some time ago. Below is the famous Dnieper river.

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"The Fighting Men Of Russia As Seen Through A Soviet Camera," Toronto Star. April 26, 1943. Page 19. ---- AT THE ALERT guarding the sky over Moscow are these soldiers shown at their anti-aircraft post. Kept busy elsewhere in Russia and weakened by constant hammering of the R.A.F., the Luftwaffe has made no attempt to drop bombs on Moscow for many months. This and other pictures on this page are from the Soviet documentary film "Russians at war."

RUSSIAN HERO is Sergt. Korol who received the Order of the Red Star for his part in shooting down two Junkers and five Messerschmitt fighters.

STREET FIGHTERS have played a glorious part in the battle for Russia's cities as the Soviet army pushed back the Nazis. Typical street fighter in this Russian soldier, sighting his rifle.

A SPECIAL PAGE in the history of Russia's glorious fight in this war will be devoted to the guerrillas who, without uniforms or rank, are risking their lives to harass the enemy. Here an informal funeral service is held for a dead guerrilla. Note the wooden grave marker.

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“The Situation in War-Torn Russia,” Ottawa Journal. June 30, 1941. Page 2. --- N.Y. Times Map, from Wide World. ---- Aabo (1) has suffered heavily from Russian air raids on Finland. In the regions centering on Shavli (2), Vilna (I), and Baranovichi (4) the Soviet armies continued to retreat before the force of the Germans who claim capture of Minsk (5) but made fierce occasional counter-attacks on their way to new defensive positions and reported their bombers had inflicted heavy losses upon Nazi tank columns. In the Minsk area German airmen raided Borisov, Bobruisk, and Motilev. Farther south the Russians reported they had inflicted a severe defeat upon the Nazis near Luck (6). German-Rumanian forces had crossed the Pruth at Seulenil (7). but said they had been hurled back across the river. Today the Huns claim to have captured Lwow and the Nazis are making a drive on Kiev.

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“Supreme Sacrifice of Russian Mother,” Sault Star. April 9, 1942. Page 6. ---- This Moscow caption identifies her as Evdoka Scsnovskaya, a resident of the village of Krasnaya Slobodka, ruins of which you see in background. She proved that mother love is something greater than bombs, shells, fire or sword. Red army troopers found her body vainly attempting to protect her child from the death that rained from the sky. There is no greater heroism on land, sea, or in the air.

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"LA BATAILLE DE STALINGRAD," La Presse (Montreal). January 9, 1943. Page 12. ---- Haut: Groupe de soldats russes changeant de position sous le feu de l'ennemi, au cours de l'héroique et déjà légendaire bataille de Stalingrad.

Bas: Tous les coups portent des mitrailleuses des soldats russes délogeant les Nazis der tranchées ou des quartiers qu'ils occupaient hier et qu'ils auront repris demain.

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“RUSSIA HONORS BRITISH AIRMEN,” North Bay Nugget. April 15, 1942. Page 18. ---- M. Maisky, the Soviet ambassador to London, recently decorated four R.A.F. pilots with the Order of Lenin, the highest Russian award, for the part they played with the Hurricane squadron in Russia. M. Maisky is shown presenting the Order of Lenin to Wing-Commander Ramsbottom-Isherwood, who was in charge of the wing. Also seen, left to right, are Pilot Officer C. Haw, Squadron Leader, A. G. Miller, and Squadron Leader A.H. Rook. They helped stall the German drive against Moscow.

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