UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and former presidents of Ukraine Leonid Kravchuk, Leonid Kuchma and Viktor Yushchenko (center, left to right) at the Verkhovna Rada session to mark the 70th anniversary of Victory over Nazism in Europe.08.05.2015#2620916
Red poppies, a symbol of remembrance for the 1939-45 war victims, is placed on the monumental statue of Motherland in Kiev.08.05.2015#2620887
City residents stand by the memorial cross at the site of the concentration camp Stalag 328 in Lviv on the Remembrance and Reconciliation Day.08.05.2015#2620798
Guards of honor and priests seen here by the memorial cross at the site of the concentration camp Stalag 328 in Lviv on the Remembrance and Reconciliation Day.08.05.2015#2620800
Guards of honor stand by the memorial cross at the site of the concentration camp Stalag 328 in Lviv on the Remembrance and Reconciliation Day.08.05.2015#2620796
City residents seen here during wreath laying at the memorial cross at the site of the concentration camp Stalag 328 in Lviv on the Remembrance and Reconciliation Day.08.05.2015#2620802
A memorial to drivers who worked on the front line during the Great Patriotic War, was unveiled in Marksistskaya street in central Moscow.11.11.2011#987342
A memorial to drivers who worked on the front line during the Great Patriotic War, was unveiled in Marksistskaya street in central Moscow.11.11.2011#987341
A memorial to drivers who worked on the front line during the Great Patriotic War, was unveiled in Marksistskaya street in central Moscow.11.11.2011#987340
A memorial to drivers who worked on the front line during the Great Patriotic War, was unveiled in Marksistskaya street in central Moscow.11.11.2011#987343
A memorial to drivers who worked on the front line during the Great Patriotic War, was unveiled in Marksistskaya street in central Moscow.11.11.2011#987359
Ceremony of laying wreaths on the graves of prominent naval military chiefs at the Novodevichy cemetery on Navy Memorial Day.27.07.2001#813466
Meeting of Soviet and US World War II veterans . Third right: Anatoly Lukyanov, First Deputy President of the Presidium of the USSR Supreme Soviet (Parliament), meets with veterans in the Kremlin.10.05.1989#6645802
The building of the former Italian garrison headquarters in Lviv during World War II (1939-1945). Nearly 2,000 Italian servicepersons who refused to swear the oath to Hitler and continue serving Germany were killed by Nazis in September 1943.01.11.1987#2871601
Participants in the 3rd Baltic Youth Conference visiting a memorial to World War Two (1939-1945) victims opened in 1967 in Salaspils, the site of a former concentration camp where 100,000 inmates died.01.05.1984#858445
August 6, 1983. An anti-war demonstration at the Artek All-Union Young Pioneer Camp named after Lenin. The event marks the 38th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.06.08.1983#828275
Dolores Ibarruri, a leader of the Spanish and international communist movement and active participant in the republican movement during the 1936-1939 Civil War. A shot from the docudrama "Grenada, Grenada, Grenada moya." Film director Roman Karmen, script writer Konstantin Simonov, 1968.17.06.1977#2874078
The Central Revolution Museum of the USSR. The stand devoted to the French resistance movement during the World War II. Ribbons and badges of the Communist members of the French parliament, executed by the Nazis in 1941.01.04.1974#2960291
Jean Emonet, a pilot of the French Normandie-Niemen Fighter Regiment, with wife and daughter. 1946. Photo print.01.01.1972#5473930
"Killing the Nazi beast" poster marking the 25th anniversary of Hungary's liberation from the Nazi occupation.04.11.1970#5688373
The Hungarian People's Republic. Liberty Statue unveiled on Gellert Hill, Budapest, in 1947. Sculptor Zsigmond Kisfaludi Strobl. The pedestal sports the sign of the Soviet Order of the Patriotic War, below is a sculpture of a Soviet warrior with a banner.05.07.1970#5689665
Polish Communist Karol Tkoc who cooperated with the united partisan squad led by Ivan Zolotar that operated in Poland during WWII.17.09.1969#6108468
The Latvian SSR. In 1967, the Salaspils memorial ensemble honoring the victims of World War II opened at the former Kurtenhof concentration camp. Sculptors lev Bukovsky, Oleg Skarainis, Janis Zarins and Ernst Neizvestny. This concrete sculpture called Humiliated Woman stands on the Road of Sufferings.18.07.1969#6109150
The Latvian SSR. In 1967, the Salaspils memorial ensemble honoring the victims of World War II opened at the former Kurtenhof concentration camp. Sculptors Lev Bukovsky, Oleg Skarainis, Janis Zarins and Ernst Neizvestny. Photo: Symbolic concrete sculptures Oath, Rot Front and Solidarity on the Road of Sufferings.18.07.1969#6109146
The Heroes of Stalingrad Battle Memorial Museum and Reserve at Mamayev Kurgan in Volgograd. "Standing to the last man" sculpture. Back: The Motherland Calls! monument by Yevgeny Vuchetich.01.06.1967#6154324
State Historical and Memorial Museum and Reserve to Heroes of the Battle of Stalingrad on Mamayev Kurgan in Volgograd. The sculpture Fight to The Bitter End, with the Motherland Calls monument, sculpted by Yevgeny Vuchetich, in the background.01.06.1967#6154322
State Historical and Memorial Museum and Reserve to Heroes of the Battle of Stalingrad on Mamayev Kurgan in Volgograd.01.06.1967#6154226
Soviet partisans and WWII participants meet with Polish national hero and legendary partisan intelligence officer Stanislaw Wronski, right, at the House of Friendship With Peoples of Foreign Countries.01.07.1966#5868413
Soviet partisans and WWII participants meet with Polish national hero and legendary intelligence officer Stanislaw Wronski, center, at the House of Friendship With Peoples of Foreign Countries.01.07.1966#5868410
Soviet guerrillas, veterans of World War II, meet with national Polish hero and legendary guerrilla ground scout Stanislaw Wronski at the Moscow House of Friendship with Foreign Nations.01.07.1966#6368207
The Battle of Stalingrad State Historical and Memorial Museum Reserve on Mamayev Kurgan. The sculpture Fighting to the Bitter End, made by Yevgeny Vuchetich, in the center of the pool on Square of Final Stand.05.07.1965#6032233
The Battle of Stalingrad State Historical and Memorial Museum Reserve on Mamayev Kurgan. One of the two walls of the Ruined Walls memorial complex, built along the granite stairs from Square of Final Stand to Square of Heroes, sculptured by Yevgeny Vuchetich.05.07.1965#6032232
International conference of the Great Patriotic War and World War II veterans and participants of the anti-fascist resistance marking the 20th anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany, at the Column Hall of the House of Unions. Hero of the Soviet Union, pilot Maria Smirnova, right, and Great Patriotic War veteran, interpreter Ruta Schtolz.11.05.1965#6357299
International conference of the Great Patriotic War and World War II veterans and participants of the anti-fascist resistance marking the 20th anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany, at the Column Hall of the House of Unions. Former Hungarian partisan Mihai Tokaj, right, Soviet colonel Viktor Gogolyuk, center, and conference participant Fogarashi Djerd.11.05.1965#6357298
International conference of the Great Patriotic War and World War II veterans and participants of the anti-fascist resistance marking the 20th anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany, at the Column Hall of the House of Unions. Participants greet each other.11.05.1965#6357297
Moscow, the Soviet Union. An international meeting of Great Patriotic War and World War II veterans and members of the Anti-Nazi Resistance Movement in the Columns Hall of the House of Trade Unions. From right: Igor Eichenbaum, Secretary-General of the Association of Normandie-Niemen Veterans and Translator/Interpreter with the Normandie-Niemen Fighter Regiment during World War II, and General Perre Pouyade, Commander of the Normandie-Niemen Fighter Regiment.11.05.1965#6357296
Moscow, the Soviet Union. An international meeting of Great Patriotic War and World War II veterans and members of the Anti-Nazi Resistance Movement in the Columns Hall of the House of Trade Unions. Manolis Glezos, a Greek public and political activist and a hero of the Greek Resistance Movement, signs autographs.11.05.1965#6357295
International conference of the Great Patriotic War and World War II veterans and participants of the anti-fascist resistance marking the 20th anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany, at the Column Hall of the House of Unions. Leader of the Spanish Communist Party Dolores Ibarruri Gomez and WWII veteran, prominent member of the Spanish Communist Party Enrique Lister Forjan.11.05.1965#6357294
Moscow, the Soviet Union. An international meeting of Great Patriotic War and World War II veterans and members of the Anti-Nazi Resistance Movement in the Columns Hall of the House of Trade Unions. From left: Sergei Smirnov, a Soviet writer, military journalist and a Great Patriotic War veteran, meets with Heinrich Duhrmeyer, Secretary-General of the International Committee of Former Inmates of the Mauthausen Concentration Camp.11.05.1965#6357293
International conference of the Great Patriotic War and World War II veterans and participants of the anti-fascist resistance marking the 20th anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany, at the Column Hall of the House of Unions. Delegates from the Polish People's Republic and Greece.11.05.1965#6361400
International conference of the Great Patriotic War and World War II veterans and participants of the anti-fascist resistance marking the 20th anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany, at the Column Hall of the House of Unions. Conference participants during a break.11.05.1965#6361399
International conference of the Great Patriotic War and World War II veterans and participants of the anti-fascist resistance marking the 20th anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany, at the Column Hall of the House of Unions. Front: delegates from the People's Republic of Bulgaria.11.05.1965#6361398
International conference of the Great Patriotic War and World War II veterans and participants of the anti-fascist resistance marking the 20th anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany, at the Column Hall of the House of Unions.Greek public figure and politician, hero of the Greek Resistance Manolis Glezos, center, Soviet colonel Leonid Vinokur, right, and conference participant G.Stoika.11.05.1965#6361397
The memorial complex Heroes of the Battle of Stalingrad on Mamayev Hill, Volgograd. Celebrations of the 20th anniversary of Victory over Nazi Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945. A meeting of comrades in arms - a Soviet officer, center, and Polish ones.10.05.1965#6361413
An international meeting of the Great Patriotic War, WWII and antifascist resistance fighters at the Column Hall of the Unions House to mark the 20th anniversary of victory over Nazi Germany. Delegates from the People's Republic of Bulgaria attend the meeting.10.05.1965#6361412
Theater Square, Warsaw. The Monument to the Heroes of Warsaw, center, designed by sculptor Marian Konieczny. The monument opened in 1964.17.07.1964#5754210
The Second World War 1939-1945. Bornholm Offensive Operation, a Soviet amphibious landing and occupation of the island of Bornholm on May 9, 1945. Chief of Staff of the Kolberg naval base Captain 2nd Rank Dmitry Shavtsov, third right, and local residents. The Red Army troops stayed on the island in the Baltic Sea for about a year until May 1946.15.01.1946#6491220
The Second World War 1939-1945. Bornholm Offensive Operation, a Soviet amphibious landing and occupation of the island of Bornholm on May 9, 1945. Chief of Staff of the Kolberg naval base Captain 2nd Rank Dmitry Shavtsov, foreground, and Soviet officers are on the island in the Baltic Sea where Red Army troops stayed for about a year until May 1946.15.01.1946#6491213
Joseph Stalin's address to Soviet people regarding Japan's surrender in World War Two and order regarding fireworks marking the victory over Japan, in the Ogonyok magazine. September 23, 1945.23.09.1945#6172316
An order by Joseph Stalin, Commander-in-Chief of the USSR Armed Forces, on fireworks commemorating the victory over Japan. Komsomolskaya Pravda, September 4, 1945.04.09.1945#6172325
Comrade Stalin's appeal to the Soviet people on Japan's surrender in World War II. Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper. September 4, 1945.04.09.1945#6172322
Joseph Stalin's address to Soviet people regarding Japan's surrender in World War Two and order regarding fireworks marking the victory over Japan, in the Izvestia newspaper. September 4, 1945.04.09.1945#6172317
Joseph Stalin's address to Soviet people regarding Japan's surrender in World War Two and order regarding fireworks marking the victory over Japan, in the Trud newspaper. September 4, 1945.04.09.1945#6172315
Joseph Stalin's address to Soviet people regarding Japan's surrender in World War Two and order regarding fireworks marking the victory over Japan, in the Pradva newspaper. September 3, 1945.03.09.1945#6172313
The Soviet-Japanese War (August 9 - September 3, 1945) pitted the Soviet Union and the Mongolian People's Republic against the Japanese Empire and Manchukuo. In this photo, Soviet officers are meeting with prisoners of war at the Mukden camp, liberated in August 1945 by units of the Red Army's 262nd Rifle Division, part of the 39th Soviet Army's 113 Rifle Corps. The camp's inmates included soldiers from the United States, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Australia and New Zealand.01.09.1945#8649825
The Soviet-Japanese War (August 9 - September 3, 1945) pitted the Soviet Union and the Mongolian People's Republic against the Japanese Empire and Manchukuo. On August 16, 1945, General Otozo Yamada, Commander of the Kwantung Army, ordered his subordinates to surrender. This photo shows the relocation of Japanese prisoners of war from the surrendered formation of the Japanese Imperial Army.01.09.1945#8649824
The Soviet-Japanese War (August 9-September 2, 1945). Chinese and Korean residents of Dunhua, Manchuria, welcome soldiers of the Red Army's 1st Far Eastern Front who have liberated Manchuria from Japanese invaders.30.08.1945#5567490
The Soviet-Japanese War between the Soviet Union and the Mongolian People's Republic, on the one hand, and the Empire of Japan and Manchukuo, on the other, August 9 - September 3, 1945. The local population of the liberated city of Mudanjiang welcomes the Soviet troops who liberated them from Japanese occupation.30.08.1945#8662384
