Monument to the Red Army Soldiers Who Died Defending the Caucuses, Gagra, USSR 1966 -- Daily LIFT #951

Soviet artillery in action during the siege of Leningrad From a folder of historic cards published in 1985 on the 40th anniversary of the...

Moscow Victory Celebration, May 9 1945, painting by B. V. loganson, USSR -- Daily LIFT #937

"Your Name is Unknown, Your Feat is Immortal" -- Image from the Battle of Moscow From a folder of historic cards published in 1985 on the...

With statements from the Communist parties of Greece and Turkey as well as the Workers' Party of Ireland Soviet postcard graphic...

Long Live the United Front of the Freedom-Loving Peoples Against the Fascist Invaders!, Soviet war poster, 1942 -- Daily LIFT #936 Poster...

Friends - P. P. Parhet, USSR 1947 -- Daily LIFT #927 One of the more evocative and emotionally powerful pieces of Soviet military art....

Senior Sergeant Vera Mitushina and Corporal Natasha Zalko of the Soviet Red Army, March 1944 -- Daily LIFT #901 They were students at the...

On this day in 1943 the last of the Nazi generals at Stalingrad (General Strecker) surrendered. The Soviet Red Army, after the largest...

The great Spanish Communist leader Dolores Ibarruri and the monument-ensemble sculptor, laureate of the Lenin Prize E. V. Vuchetich on...

Lepa Radić, heroic Communist Yugoslavian anti-fascist partisan and resistance fighter was born December 19, 1925. After the Nazis invaded...

Vasily Zaitsev (far left) instructs other Soviet snipers, Stalingrad, December 1942 Vasily Zaitsev is perhaps the most famous of all the...

Published in 1968, this tourist photo book had 44 attached full color photos as well as a panoramic one that was its inside cover. Minsk...

Monument of Glory to the Soldiers and Partisans - Liberators of Bryansk, USSR 1973 On September 17, 1943 the forces of the Red Army...

August 31, 1942 marked the beginning of the incredibly courageous Luxembourg General Strike against the Nazi occupiers. In August, 1942...

Rafe Saltman, a founding member of the Vancouver Island-based Freedom From War Coalition, reflects on the terrible human costs of...

Red Army troops in central Minsk after the liberation of the city In early July, 1944 Red Army forces were driving forward into large...

Demobilized Red Army soldiers arrive home at the Byelorussia Railroad Station, Moscow after the victory over the Nazis in the Great...

To the Eternal Memory of Those Soviet People Who Gave Their Lives in the Struggle Against Fascism, dedication page of a history of the...

Today on May 9 -- Victory Day in the former USSR as it was on this day in 1945 that the Soviets formally accepted the German surrender --...