From “Combat” to capture the Reichstag: the archives of the great Patriotic war
10 famous photographs taken by eyewitnesses.
The events of the great Patriotic war devoted to a huge number of movies, but not every art painting is able to convey the atmosphere of archival footage and impressions of people who were directly in the conflict zone.
The battle of Kursk, destroyed the monuments, the rally at the Brandenburg gate in Berlin, raised over the Reichstag the Banner of Victory — photos of these and other developments firmly in history’s largest war.
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