1. Moscow residents listen to the June 22 government radio announcement on the invasion of Nazi Germany.
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2. Wehrmacht soldiers on the Eastern front in 1941.
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3. German infantry during the first months of Operation Barbarossa.
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4. Heinrich Himmler, Reichsführer-SS, head of the Gestapo and the Waffen-SS, inspects a prisoner-of-war camp in the Soviet Union in August 1941.
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5. Soviet soldiers during the Siege of Leningrad in November 1941.
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6. Political commissar Alexey Yeremenko leads his men into combat against German positions in Ukraine, July 12, 1942. He was killed minutes after this photo was taken.
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7. A view of the Barmaley fountain in the railway station square in Stalingrad, destroyed by German Air Forces during World War II.
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8. Street fights in Stalingrad in November 1942.
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9. A Soviet soldier with a German POW after the Battle of Stalingrad was over.
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10. Execution of partisans in winter 1943.
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11. Soviet IL-2 planes attacking Nazi troops during the Battle of Kursk in July 1943.
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12. Attack of the Soviet troops at Prokhorovka during the Battle of Kursk in July 1943.
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13. Artillery soldiers of the 2nd Belorussian Front, 1944.
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14. Red Army Guards Captain Sergey Ivanov holding a child in the liberated Yugoslavian village of Omoljica in October 1944.
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15. Soviet doctors and Red Cross representatives among the Osventsim (Auschwitz) death camp prisoners, soon after the camp was liberated by the Red Army in early February 1945.
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16. The Yalta conference of three allied powers on February 4-11, 1945. In the center (seated left to right): British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Marshal of the USSR Joseph Stalin.
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17. A Soviet offensive near Breslau in March 1945.
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18. U.S. Army Private Byron Shiver and Red Army soldier Ivan Numladze during the meeting of American and Soviet troops at the Elbe River, near Torgau in Germany on April 25, 1945.
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19. The Soviet flag ‘Banner of Victory’ on the Reichstag building in Berlin, May 1, 1945.
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20. Female military traffic constable Maria Shalneva in Alexanderplatz in Berlin on May 1, 1945.
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