The Soviet Union through the eyes of Margaret Burke-White (20 photos)

Margaret Burke-White was born in the Bronx in 1904. Father - an engineer and inventor, was a Jew. Mother - a housewife, half Irish, half an Englishwoman, the Protestant religion. Margaret graduated from high school in New Jersey, attended Columbia University and was fascinated by photography - for life. In 1930, Margaret Burke-White sent abroad - first in Germany, where photographs of the concern IG Farbenindustrie, and then the Soviet Union. 1941 Burke-White became the first ever female war correspondent. This happened even before the United States entered the war - when Germany attacked the USSR, Margaret went to Moscow.

Her tenure coincided with the violation of the German non-aggression pact. She was the only foreign photographer, who was present in Moscow during the German attack. Then she went on many fronts - North African, Italian, French and German. Made an excellent report on the everyday life of an American bomber connection. Colleagues called Margaret Burke-White "Enduring Maggie." She was afraid of nothing and did not feel weak creature. Widely known by its military photo album "Sleep well, Fatherland", published in 1945.

In the early 50s she was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease. Career ended, began a long, exhausting and futile treatment. Margaret wrote an autobiographical book simply titled "Self Portrait" (by the way, the picture above, in a flight suit - also a self-portrait), but no longer rented less frequently and communicate with people. She died in Connecticut in 1971.

Cyclopean statue Magnitogorsk



View Magnitogorsk



Concrete dam



Working Magnitogorsk





















Factory assembly



The woman at the door of his house.



Sad songs at the funeral



Local resident on a cart with hay



Women and children lined up at the entrance to the store, where they will lean food choices



Woman with a piece of meat



The church in the Russian outback