1976 Soviet postage stamp commemorating the life of Lyudmila Mikhailovna Pavlichenko, Soviet sniper in the Red Army during the Great Patriotic War (World War II).

#Pavlichenko #Post #Postage #Stamp #USSR #SovietUnion #RedArmy #Sniper #Sevastopol #Odessa

#OTD #TDIH #April3, 1924: #BOTD: #HBD #RozaShanina! #TheUnseenTerrorOfEastPrussia #BeautifulButDeadly #RedArmy #3rdBelorussianFront #Snipers #Heroes #Beauties #RedStar #USSRInWWII #WWIISky
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31 March 1943, the Battle of Rzhev, one of the bloodiest engagements of World War II, concluded. It lasted over 14 months and came down in history as one of the bloodiest battles.

#Rzhev #BattleofRzhev #WW2 #WW2 #USSR #SovietUnion #RedArmy #SovietRedArmy #Victory #Liberation

That is the second batch of 15mm WWII Soviet Cossack M1891 riflemen done apart from an new coat on the rim of the base.
#MiniaturePainting #Miniatures #Wargaming #Tabletop #15mm #WWII #EasternFront #FlamesOfWar #BattlefrontMiniatures #Battlegroup #Stalingrad #Soviet #RedArmy #Cossack

In the photo is the medical instructor of the 2nd Leningrad Partisan Brigade, Dmitrieva Maria Nikolaevna.

On 30 July 1942, she was awarded the Medal "For Courage."

On 6 April 1985, she was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War, 2nd class.

#USSR #SovietUnion #Medic #RedArmy #SovietRedArmy

Lyuba Galanchikoff broke the world altitude record by climbing to 2,200 metres in a Fokker monoplane, at Johannisthal airfield near Berlin, Germany, 1912. Photo postcard #WomenInSTEM #WHM26 #WomensHistoryMonth

Lyubov Golanchikova 1911 3rd woman in Russian Empire with pilot's license. Test pilot for Anthony Fokker, Morane Saulnier & Fedor Tereshchenko. #WWI flew #RedCross missions pos flew for #RedArmy. 1923 moved to US tried to make 1st female pilot transatlantic flight en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyubov_...

#LeonTrotsky, on #ThisDayInHistory in 1918, in another betrayal of #socialist principles and a breach of #Lenin's promise to the contrary, announced that officers in the #RedArmy would no longer be elected by the soldiers, and reappointed old Tsarist-era officers to lead units.

#Stalingrad
#KızılOrdu
#RedArmy
#Socialism

“Stalingrad faşizmin korkulu rüyasıdır ve o bütün insanlığındır."

The 21st Century Red Army That Never Was By Colin SaltBritish Sovietologist Charles J. Dick passed away last year from Covid complications. He was known primarily for writing about the Soviet Military and one of his works deserves to be look...

Colin Salt examines how the #Soviet #Army might have continued to develop in a scenario where the #ColdWar did not end but continued into the 21st century. #RedArmy #MilitaryHistory #AlternateHistory #WhatIf #Counterfactual www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/the-21s...

An officer in The Internal Troops of the Soviet Ministry of Internal Affairs Listen on Apple PodcastsListen on SpotifyListen on YouTubeListen on Amazon MusicListen on OvercastListen on Pocket CastsListen on Podcast AddictBecome a Patron!Ihor describes his time ser

NEW EPISODE - An officer in the Internal Troops of the #Soviet Ministry of Internal Affairs

Listen here 🎧🎧 coldwarconversations.com/episode448/

#Lviv #coldwar #Sovietunion #redarmy #ukraine

Cleaning the streets between the Reichstag and the Brandenburg Gate by the inhabitants of Berlin, Germany, May 1945

Photograph: Valery Faminsky

Published in @guardian 14 March 2026

#War #Defeat #Berlin #Germany #USSR #SovietUnion #SovietRedArmy #RedArmy #Victory #Liberation #Reichstag

An officer in The Internal Troops of the Soviet Ministry of Internal Affairs Listen on Apple PodcastsListen on SpotifyListen on YouTubeListen on Amazon MusicListen on OvercastListen on Pocket CastsListen on Podcast AddictBecome a Patron!Ihor describes his time ser

NEW EPISODE - An officer in the Internal Troops of the #Soviet Ministry of Internal Affairs

Listen here 🎧🎧 coldwarconversations.com/episode448/

#Lviv #coldwar #Sovietunion #redarmy #ukraine

An officer in The Internal Troops of the Soviet Ministry of Internal Affairs Listen on Apple PodcastsListen on SpotifyListen on YouTubeListen on Amazon MusicListen on OvercastListen on Pocket CastsListen on Podcast AddictBecome a Patron!Ihor describes his time ser

NEW EPISODE - An officer in the Internal Troops of the #Soviet Ministry of Internal Affairs

Listen here 🎧🎧 coldwarconversations.com/episode448/

#Lviv #coldwar #Sovietunion #redarmy #ukraine

That is the first shading pass done on the second batch of 15mm WWII Soviet Cossack M1891 riflemen and I have 1 rifle to repair...
#MiniaturePainting #Miniatures #Wargaming #Tabletop #15mm #WWII #EasternFront #FlamesOfWar #BattlefrontMiniatures #Battlegroup #Stalingrad #Soviet #RedArmy #Cossack

An officer in The Internal Troops of the Soviet Ministry of Internal Affairs Listen on Apple PodcastsListen on SpotifyListen on YouTubeListen on Amazon MusicListen on OvercastListen on Pocket CastsListen on Podcast AddictBecome a Patron!Ihor describes his time ser

NEW EPISODE - An officer in the Internal Troops of the #Soviet Ministry of Internal Affairs

Listen here 🎧🎧 coldwarconversations.com/episode448/

#Lviv #coldwar #Sovietunion #redarmy #ukraine

An officer in The Internal Troops of the Soviet Ministry of Internal Affairs Listen on Apple PodcastsListen on SpotifyListen on YouTubeListen on Amazon MusicListen on OvercastListen on Pocket CastsListen on Podcast AddictBecome a Patron!Ihor describes his time ser

NEW EPISODE - An officer in the Internal Troops of the #Soviet Ministry of Internal Affairs

Listen here 🎧🎧 coldwarconversations.com/episode448/

#Lviv #coldwar #Sovietunion #redarmy #ukraine

An officer in The Internal Troops of the Soviet Ministry of Internal Affairs Listen on Apple PodcastsListen on SpotifyListen on YouTubeListen on Amazon MusicListen on OvercastListen on Pocket CastsListen on Podcast AddictBecome a Patron!Ihor describes his time ser

NEW EPISODE - An officer in the Internal Troops of the #Soviet Ministry of Internal Affairs

Listen here 🎧🎧 coldwarconversations.com/episode448/

#Lviv #coldwar #Sovietunion #redarmy #ukraine

Wartime (World War Two) poster produced by the Communist Party of Great Britain.

#War #WorldWarTwo #WW2 #CommunistParty #GreatBritain #CPGB #Allies #USSR #SovietUnion #SovietRedArmy #RedArmy

GYOKERES #arsenal #afc #redarmy

I started on the second set of 15mm WWII Soviet Cossack riflemen.
#MiniaturePainting #Miniatures #Wargaming #Tabletop #TabletopWargaming #15mm #15mmWargaming #WWII #EasternFront #FlamesOfWar #BattlefrontMiniatures #Battlegroup #Stalingrad #Soviet #RedArmy #Cossack

Soviet traffic controllers in liberated Germany and Berlin.

First three images: Lydia Spivak, Lyubov Rusanova, Maria Limanskaya, respectively

#Berlin #Germany #RedArmy #SovietRedArmy #Victory #Liberation #LydiaSpivak #BrandenburgGate

Rather than negotiate with the #KronstadtRebellion or accede to their demands for real #socialism, the #RedArmy on #ThisDayInHistory in 1921 began its violent assault on the rebels. The first attack failed, with some soldiers switching sides, but within ten days it was crushed.

I got the majority of the basing done on these 15mm WWII Soviet Cossack riflemen.
#MiniaturePainting #Miniatures #Wargaming #Tabletop #TabletopWargaming #15mm #15mmWargaming #WWII #EasternFront #FlamesOfWar #BattlefrontMiniatures #Battlegroup #Stalingrad #Soviet #SovietRedArmy #RedArmy #Cossack

Deutsches Bundesarchiv/German Federal Archive https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2011/09/world-war-ii-the-eastern-front/100150/

#OTD in 1943
‘Red Army soldiers in camouflage gear on a snow-covered battlefield, somewhere along the German-Russian war front, as they advance against German positions on March 3, 1943’
#WW2 #blackandwhitephotography #EasternFront #RedArmy #USSR

Red Army soldiers on combat duty during the Great Patriotic War / World War Two, 1944. Reproduced from Soviet Photo magazine 1965. Iosif Fetisov.

#SovietRedArmy #RedArmy #Great #Patriotic #War #WW2 #Soviet #Photo #Victory #Liberation

take his own life in defeat). Paulus eventually became a vocal critic of the Nazi regime while in Soviet captivity, and later acted as a witness for the prosecution at the Nuremberg trials.’
#WW2 #blackandwhitephotography #EasternFront #RedArmy #USSR #Stalingrad #FriedrichPaulus

First shading pass on the first set of 15mm WWII Cossack riflemen is done.
#MiniaturePainting #Miniatures #Wargaming #Tabletop #TabletopWargaming #15mm #15mmWargaming #WWII #WW2 #WorldWar2 #EasternFront #FlamesOfWar #FoW #Battlefront #BattlefrontMiniatures #Soviet #SovietRedArmy #RedArmy #Cossack

SYSTEM INTERCEPT: SECTOR [UNKNOWN]
UNIT ID: Red Army 43/08 + 43/88
STATUS: INDUSTRIAL PURGE
WEAPONRY: Heavy Ignition Cannon [MAX OUTPUT]
OBJECTIVE: "Feel the hate."

#1212universe #scifi #redarmy #cyberpunk #animation #lore

I started work on some 15mm WWII cossacks.
#MiniaturePainting #Miniatures #Wargaming #Tabletop #TabletopWargaming #15mm #15mmWargaming #WWII #WW2 #WorldWar2 #EasternFront #FlamesOfWar #FoW #Battlefront #BattlefrontMiniatures #Soviet #SovietRedArmy #RedArmy #Cossack

Day of the Soviet Army and Navy!!

I would like to express my belated congratulations.
Long live the Workers and Peasants Red Army!

#ussr #sovietrussia #redarmy #February23