When the Great Patriotic War (1941-1945) broke children of communist political emigres were taking a rest in an International Red Aid (MOPR) young pioneer camp in Byelorussia. They were saved from Nazis by residents of the village of Novoyelnya. Forty three years after they found the house where they had lived during the war. Participant in the action named "Children Against War", the son of the war-time Korean political emigre Vladimir Marsin (right), an engineer of a Moscow enterprise. Grodno Region, Byelorussia. 1988.01.07.1988#773603
Former guerillas in the Bryansk Region during the Great Patriotic War (1941-1945) meeting with young people in the Guerilla Clearing, the site of the guerilla base.10.09.1985#822140
Buzuluk city in the Orenburg Region. Three Red Army divisions, as well as the 1st Detached Czechoslovak Battalion commanded by Ludvik Svoboda, were established here during the Great Patriotic War. A memorial plaque on a home where soldiers of the 1st Detached Czechoslovak Battalion lived in 1942-1943.01.03.1984#6345840
Polish officer Ivan Szczęsnowicz, Engineer Captain Second Class, a Great Patriotic War veteran, addresses other war veterans at their get-together.07.04.1980#8249865
The Monument to Heroic Defenders of Leningrad on Victory Square honors the heroic feat of the people of Leningrad during the tragic siege of 1941-1944. Photo: On Victory Day, people crowd near the Siege sculptural composition, built to a design by sculptor M. Anikushin and architects Kamensky and S. Speransky and unveiled in 1974.09.05.1979#8151694
The monument on a common grave of Soviet Army soldiers who fell in battle against Nazi Germans near Pskov in 1944. Cherekha village, Yadrovo municipality, Pskov District, Pskov Region.14.02.1968#6073000
The 1941-1945 Great Patriotic War against Nazi Germany. The charred body of a Jewish ghetto resident.01.03.1943#882844
