The face of the Great War. On the 90th anniversary of the end (25 pics + text) Bashny.Net

... 90 years ago, on this day, in the saloon of Marshal Foch of France entered the German delegation to sign a truce. At 11 am it entered into force. The Great War (as it was then called) was completed.



This war did not expect - Europe Time belle époque was pretty carefree, and no one suspected what ultimately will result in the fatal shot in Sarajevo.
Yesterday was a Londoner calmly ordered through ticket via Ostend and Berlin to St. Petersburg to go to Harbin Transssibirskoy highway and on to the future, and then take a connecting steamer in Japan. In just 30 years before the "Belle Epoque" this seemed incredible, and people reasonably hope for further progress miracles.
And today - suddenly cut trenches old Europe, over the English Channel were fighting zeppelins, and German armies approached Paris, crushing Belgium. Samsonov army perished in the forests of East Prussia, giving France a chance. Soon poisonous gases crept over the trenches; Russian Sevastopol arranged wake-up, and on the Gallipoli began chopper. The country turned into a military camp, and the war gradually affected every man, which had never been. Mutual exasperation reached its peak after two years in the terrible slaughter of Verdun. And the war has found a new dimension, which was not expected - and socialist propaganda.
Europe emerged from the war stunned experienced, in polushokovom and vengeful state lost millions of soldiers. Empire did not survive the war, dissolved in the national states and disintegrating; and Russia and does uchudil, started setting fire to the fuse of the world revolution, to build a new world.
Tried to humiliate the losers maximum, which eventually led to the fact that the same Compiègne car just 21 years back went the Germans and French. However, their roles were reversed. But it was then ...
This war in today's society do not know much - except that those who are interested in history. Therefore, I propose to look into her face - in times past, but scary. Look at the pictures with the "Spark" and "Niva", on the other pictures, something to remember.

1914. The heads of the allied empires - Nicholas and George. Orders are hung to the navel and are confident that progress can not be stopped.



And the other side - Willie dear cousin cousin Nicky, or, more simply, the Kaiser Wilhelm the Second Reich II. Almost all of the reigning persons prewar Europe were relatives through dynastic ties, and Russian Nikolai with the German Wilhelm - is no exception.



The war did not immediately became violent - in 1914 tried to behave more "chivalrous". There has never been out fierce - but it will come very soon



And here is the new dimension of war, unusual for his contemporaries - air. Air ceased to be a neutral substance, and also became the enemy.



But zeppelins were not so terrible - just four years aviation has experienced an incredible peacetime progress, becoming a new kind of (not race!) Troops. Since then, his name is the triad - the army, air force and navy.



And this, too - a sign of the past tense. The government is not aware of what a disastrous role in society is breakdown of the army and the fall of morale. In 1914, more obituaries published in the cruiser with full name and title of the publication. It will take only a year, and after heavy defeats in Poland and Galicia, this practice will be very rare.



And here it is - the new face of war, the chemical. Yes, it was not nice - people were going blind from a new type of weapon, got poisoned and died. I had to wear gas masks.



1915. You can read about the "poison gas».



1915. Few people know, but right in the Winter Palace was also arranged hospital.



1915. And here's a sample of propaganda against the opposing powers: in spite of the serious situation, enemies must still portray having big problems. It is not always the "truth" is correct, in the war - it is pernicious.



November 1915, the cover of "Spark": meeting Germans and Russian.



1915. "In the camp of the enemy." Camp more civilized, they let people with disabilities and have e-mail message, and contain a "shop" and "kitchen". And can escape, as did Lieutenant Tukhachevsky. Auschwitz to Buchenwald still ahead, hey.



1915. The shooting of the German spy. All the gentlemen, "Mercy" will suffice.



1915 South-Western Front, field kitchen and distribution of supplies.



And here is the beginnings of what is just 20 years will begin to practice extensively and ruthlessly: aerial bombardment. Yes, the Austro-Hungarian "airplanes" bombarded beautiful Venice and St. Mark's Cathedral in particular. Reichsmarschall Goering path to and Marshal Arthur Harris, as well as Hiroshima and Tokyo paved the back there in 1915. The scale increased, methods have changed, but the essence - remained.



1916. The British in positions near Ypres.



1916. However, the war-war, and "lunch schedule": imperial Petersburg lived his easy life, war and lice - it is out there somewhere, far away; let these fuckers rot there, who could not otmazatsya from the front or buy a white ticket, but those who are "smart" - it is necessary to have fun and relax.



Prince Felix Yusupov, Jr., it was at this time travels with a retinue Petersburg province in search of suitable materials for the new decoration of his palace on the Moika - modernistic. Old, classic, ruthlessly break - it's time to throw out obsolete in a landfill. And the war ... a war - it is not for us, it is for the "masses».

Sergei Yesenin medic in the Tsar's Hospital.



1916. Drawing on the offensive in Galicia, later named "Brusilovsky breakthrough».



1916. "Welcome to the lieutenant».



1916. On the Caucasian front. Incidentally, General Yudenich commanded them quite successfully.



1917. For the past and modern times, the Empire no longer exists, and razezzhaet in Tsarskoye Selo car progressive War Minister Kerensky. Good lesson for the mood of rise.



Soon fevralisty prosrut everything possible in just six months, bringing the territory of the former empire to the state of complete disorganization and collapse - to the pen that will be only some decisive forces that power to lift off the ground and used for its intended purpose.
Such a force, of course, there were.

However, so far more on the streets goes campaigning for a "fight to the end pobednago." Moscow, March 1917.



1917. "Liberty Loan". But there is a loan lights ...



1918 Brest-Litovsk. And here is Lev Davidovich in the middle of the frame, rubbing among the gentlemen in Pickelhaube. He came to sign a peace treaty with Germany, and he will sign it - at the second attempt. However, the Lord in vain Pickelhaube rejoice - the Bolsheviks more they stuck a pole in the side: from where they did not expect, in the form of agitation, excitement, and then the November revolution with the uprising in Kiel.



1918 Flanders. The soldier on the right - the rank of corporal - the name Adolf. He is Austrian, and he entered the Academy in Vienna eight years ago. Soon he received the Iron Cross 1st Class, as well as its posited portion of poison gas. What does he want in the world twenty years, yet no one knows ...



1918. The November Revolution in Germany: the trucks Spartak razezzhayut among the cheering crowd, through the Brandenburg Gate. Army Second Reich still standing in France and Belgium, but it is time to go to the car to Marshal Foshu - "world revolution" reached here, and saves the Entente forces for a grand campaign in 1919. No chance.



Such are the collages "Heroes and victims" were published in Russian monthlies. Collages are very complex, and in the imposition and installation. We also see that the editors used the principle of "the more the rank and title, the greater the portrait." Well, the sign of the times and class society.



Nevertheless, it is necessary to pay tribute to those killed in the war: it is about our people. These are our ancestors - great grandfathers, great-grandfathers, and they certainly deserve respect - those who fought.

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