25 Shots sentimental World War II

It has been 70 years since we won the victory over Nazi Germany ... No one denies: for tears of joy we paid a high price indeed! Without too much pathos is worth noting that it was a terrible time ... The Nazis shot civilians en masse. In the fierce fighting killed millions of people who loved and waited.

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25 This sentimental images of World War II made courageous journalists. Thank you, fathers, grandfathers and great grandfathers, for the fact that today we can enjoy the spring!

War Child (Photo: M. Trahman).


The Soviet soldiers are fighting a life and death, in 1943 (Photo: M. Markov-Grinberg).


«Combat" - one of the most famous photographs of World War II. Pictured captured junior political officer Alexander Eremenko, urging the fighters to attack a few seconds before his own death (Photo: Max Alpert).



The Soviet soldiers in the battle of Leningrad during the early breakthrough of the blockade (photographer: Vsevolod Tarasevich).


under the tracks of a tank (photo: M. Marc-Greenbury).


Sergeant Ivan Kireev made a volley of captured German rocket-propelled grenade during a night battle in the city of Breslau (Photo: D. Baltermants).


Kids hiding from the bombing, June 22, 1941 (Photo: Boris Jaroslavtsev).


German air raids on Moscow, 26 July 1941 (Photographer: Margaret Bourke-White).


Self-made swing at a gun battle.


The long-awaited meeting with his brother (Photo: A. Shaikhet).


A Soviet soldier holding a cat in the hands of Stalingrad (Photo: A. Krichevsky).


Living in Prague welcomed the car with Soviet soldiers (Photo: A. Egorov).


The Soviet pilot feeding pigeons in a break between fights (Photo: Olga Ignatovich).




A Soviet soldier holds a Czech child (Photo: A. Holubova).


The Soviet fighter gives the light a prisoner by the Germans, so they warmed up a little.


Victory Salute, May 9, 1945 (Photo: B. Kudoyarov).


Tank commander Lieutenant B. Smelov shows a hole in the tower of the German tank "Tiger", downed by his crew, Lieutenant Lihnyakevichu (Photo: H. Bode).


Shot "Katyusha" on the approaches to Vyborg (Photo: V. Tarasevich).


The Fountain "Children's dance" on the station square of Stalingrad after the Nazi air raid (Photo: E. Evzerihin).




Happy Victory Banner over the Reichstag (Photo: E. Khaldey).


It is unlikely that these shots though left anyone indifferent ... A lot of what they called a vague feeling of joy and sadness. But as long as we are capable of deep feelings, we will not allow war again to destroy what we have today.