Pictures of the Campaign in the East, 1942 ..

AGAINST ALL ODDS - Pictures of the Campaign in the East, 1942

 

Nice find, sniper- some amazing shots there.

 

Great pics sniper, thanks for sharing!

 

Yes, interesting photos
But I do not understand why the Red Army soldiers called the Bolsheviks?
It's the same mistake as the German soldiers called fascists.
I think it's all propaganda. And I prefer objectivity.
As an example I give links to 3 photo archives:
1. propagandists
http://victory.mil.ru/lib/reel/01/index.html

2. neutral
http://www.mil.ru/849/23224/72717/index.shtml

3. objective</SPAN></SPAN>
http://soldat1941.narod.ru/

 

Hi Iru - I think the picture captions were just translated from the originals, when (as propaganda) the Russian soldiers were often called Bolsheviks even when they weren't.

And absolutely fabulous set Sniper - tells the story in a much better way than most written accounts. I hope there are more?

 

I noticed what Iru did as well. Though it does seem like the issue is that which Spartanroller notes- seems like the photo captions are just straight literal translations of the captions from wherever the photos previously appeared. Which certainly sounds to be a German source with some hefty bias!

I noted how all the Russian towns/cities were "liberated" as well.

That being said, the photos are still great! Most of them look to be images that aren't widely published, at least as far as I've seen.

(Which certainly isn't close to all the published WW2 photos!)

 

rotary-hammer — альбом «Гундлах» на Яндекс.Фотках

Here, the famous German photographer's photo album of events 1942 on the Volkhov front. I think it was the greatest tragedy of the Red Army.
Heavy fighting, heavy casualties and treachery of the generals. There is a very remote places. Seachers are still finding remnants of military uniforms.

"Âîëõîâñêèé ôðîíò-çàäíèöà ìèðà" - Guns.ru Talks

I dream to go there for a better understanding of history.

 

Too bad two of the sites were in Russian. I would have liked to read them in English.