The photograph was taken in the Belgorod City Park. Every morning and every evening the shadows of the heroes of the Great Patriotic War appear
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LPR: Cavalry Front-Saddle and Saddle-Pad of Marshal K. E. Voroshilov (USSR)
After the February Revolution of 1917, he was a Member of the Petrograd Soviet of Workers’ and Soldiers’ Deputies, a Delegate to the Seventh (April) All-Russian Conference and the Sixth Congress of the RSDLP (b). From March 1917 – Chairman of the Lugansk Committee of the Bolsheviks, from August – the Lugansk Council and the City Duma (until September 1917).
Red Army Horses (1941-1945) by Timur Muminov [Тимур Муминов] (13.8.2019)
The time of severe trials proved the expediency of organizing a special fund of selected horse stock. In total, about three million horses came from the national economy to the front. Even more of them would be needed if, thanks to a well-organized military Veterinary Service, the vast majority of slightly wounded and sick animals did not return to Service – but were returned to the Home-Front to continue their vital patriotic services. However, more than a million uncomplaining Soviet War-Horse died in the anti-fascist war! Already, by 1942, the USSR was short of horses – with the shortfall being met by purchases from its allies in Mongolia!
USSR: Red Army Cavalry Swords! (12.5.2022)
It is remarkable to consider that although the Red Army Cavalry were issued were ‘Carbines’ in 1941, this was not before massed men on horses had launched traditional Cavalry charges against the Nazi German Army as it moved into the USSR from June 22nd onwards, in 1941! Indeed, the 6th and 36th Divisions of Red Army Cavalry were literally ‘wiped-out’ as every man and horse was lost when they ‘charged’ at advancing Nazi Germany tanks in West Ukraine at the very beginning of the Great Patriotic War (1941-1945)!
London: WWII Royal Albert Hall! (11.5.2022)
On February 21, 1943, a solemn concert was held in honour of the Red Army – and to give thanks to the Soviet people for
East Meets West! (11.5.2022)
Happy Lieutenant W. Robertson and Lieutenant A. S. Silvashko against the backdrop of the inscription “East meets West”, symbolizing the historic meeting of the allies
SANGHA KOMMUNE (SSR) 