#WWII Soviet

[emiliyathecossack]

I just need someone to admire my work.

My husband and I have been cosplaying for years and have entire personas worked out for our WWII reenactment characters. (We both cosplay Soviets.)

Recently we lost my father, and we are both doing grief counseling together because my father was practically my husband's father. So I promised him I would make him a bookmark for his book so he doesn't have to use tissue.

So here are the results!

I am definitely into the sloppy type of art which I'm not even sure what to call it. His character is named Luka and mine is Emiliya.

I wrote a personal message on the back for him as well and put millions of stickers on it but that's more private and just for him.

[captain-price-unofficially]

Japanese Type 97 tank on Kuril Islands, Russia

[theworldatwar]

Soviet soldiers use a ruined building for cover as they attempt to defend Stalingrad -1942

[lostmementomemori]

A German soldier takes geese for a walk in a village in the occupied territory of the USSR.

[catgirlstalin]

"Monument in honor of the soldiers of the Soviet army who gave their lives for the liberation of Austria from fascism" April 1945 Schwarzenbergplatz, Vienna

[cid5]

German soldiers laden with ammunition for their MG42 prepare to take up positions against the Soviet winter 1943 offensive.

[todaysdocument]

Decryption of Soviet Diplomatic Telegram Relating to the Code Name "Enormous" and Photography of Material

Record Group 457: Records of the National Security Agency/Central Security ServiceSeries: Public Release Copies of Records Relating to Project VenonaFile Unit: First Venona Release

VENONA

TOP SECRET [scratched out]

[redacted]

[redacted]

[vii] CAMP-1: Not identified; probably an atomic energy side 9cf references to "Camp-2" and "camps" in eg NEW YORK's No. 1585 of 12 November 1944 and 709 of 5 July 1945 ([redacted]).

[viii] OSA: ie "WASP"; Ruth GREENGLASS.

[ix] KALIBER: ie "CALIBRE"; David GREENGLASS.

[x] LIBERAL: Julius Rosenberg.

[xi] MLAD: ie "YOUNG"; [redacted]

[xiii] Kh'YuS: ie "HUGHES"; Alfred Epaminondas SARANT, who was employed at the BELL Telephone Laboratories [cf. Footnote [xiv]) NEWYORK CITY, from October 1942 to September 1946.

[xiv] APQ-7: Or AN/APQ-7: a high-resolution airborne radar developed by the MASSACHUSETTS Institute of Technology and built BELL Telephones (cf Footnote [xiii]) in the 1940s.

[xb] SVET: ie "LIGHT'"; possibly Aleksander Andreevich RAEV.

[xvi] KILISTRAT: ie "CALISTRATUS"; Aleksander Semenovhich FOMIN.

[xvii] PLANT: The Soviet Consulate.

[xviii] METR: ie "METRE"; Joel BARR.

[xix] TYRE: NEW YORK CITY.

VENONA

TOP SECRET

[scratched out]USSR Ref No. [redacted] 13/7/60)

[Redacted] Issued [redacted] 29/9/76

Copy No. 301

REISSUE [i]

ORGANISATION OF WORK ON ENORMOUS AND PHOTOGRAPHY OF MATERIAL: ARNO. PERS. OSA. KALIBER. LIBERAL. "MLAD". Kh' YuS, Svet. KALISTRAT. METR (1944)

From: NEW YORK

To: MOSCOW

Nos.: 1749, 1750 13 December 1944

[2-part message complete]

[PART I] To Viktor [ii].

Your Nos. 5740[iii] and 5797[iii].

We consider it risky to concentrate all the contacts relating to ENORMOUS [ENORMOZ] [iv] on ARNO [v] alone. This is good in that it limits the circles of [2 groups unrecovered] persons but it is dangerous to disrupt [1 group unrecovered] work on ENORMOUS

[45 groups unrecoverable]

PERS[vi]. [7 groups unrecovered] Camp-1 [vii]. Our proposal

[24 groups unrecovered]

not to give [D5 any more] on ENORMOUS.

2. To leave OSA[viii] and KALIBER[ix] in contact with LIBERAL[x] until [3 groups unrecovered] work.

Cont'd overleaf

VENONA

TOP SECRET [scratched out]

DECLASSIFIED

Authority NW 23159

By [illegible] NARA, Date 5/7/03

[Complete document and transcript at link]

[sovietpostcards]

January 27, 1944 - the siege of Leningrad was lifted thus finishing the 900-day blockade of the city.

January 27th, 1944

On a January night, underneath starless skies, Disbelieving the fate it was made to refute, Resurrecting itself from the depths of demise, Leningrad stands in proud salute.

Anna Akhmatova, 1944

———

27 января 1944   И в ночи январской, беззвездной, Сам дивясь небывалой судьбе, Возвращенный из смертной бездны, Ленинград салютует с��бе.   Анна Ахматова, 1944 г.

[canopiancatboy]

T-34 was promised, T-34 is delivered

I'm not sure I love the snow effect on the armor, but uh, it's not gonna come off soo

I keep throwing out lists I'll never play, but I'm fond of a 2 formation list for the double bubble of rerolls v4 flames of war gives you, so this will probably be a member of a standard T-34 battalion accompanying my hero rifle battalion

I've got some KV-1's too, but I think the sheer point efficacy of field guns in formation with the hero rifles is gonna have to work, since the KVs were just trundling along with the infantry anyways so the T-34s can get their zoomies out

[masha-nikita]

Recent sketches-

this is supposedly a Red Army journalist climbing on top of a roof in order to photograph Berlin. I sketched it on the back of an office waste paper, because my office work has been too draining, I had to distract myself with something. Of course the perspective was very messed up I had to get it into Photoshop to rectify the scene itself.

I was pretty convinced the guy on the left was Doenitz, yet turned out not the case upon further investigation-- these are Luftwaffe generals. Doenitz wasn't that tall, the hell was I thinking.

[carbone14]

Equipage d'un char Joseph Staline IS-2 à Breslau (aujourd'hui Wrocław)– Siège de Breslau – Offensive de Basse-Silésie – Allemagne – 27 avril 1945

Photographe : Anatoly Egorov

[sovtime]

С Днём Победы над Германией в Великой Отечественной войне! 1941 — 1945.

[captain-price-unofficially]

Soviet troops trample a Nazi flag as they march toward Vienna, April 1945

[theworldatwar]

A Soviet soldier hides in the ruins of a house awaiting any signs of the enemy - Stalingrad 1942

[masonjarhead]

Entering service in February of 1944, the T-34-85 was the first large modification to the T-34 tank, adding an 85mm gun designed to counter the German Tiger, and an improved, widened, three-man turret. The design would further be developed and perfected over time, but the original T-34-85 variants would always be the most crucial. The widening of the Turret helped with on of the T-34 main issues, how cramped it was. The T-34 was incredibly tightly packed on the interior, with very little room to work. While not entirely solving this issue, the larger three man turret certainly reduced the strain on tank crews. The larger gun however, was the main selling point of the 34-85. Able to penetrate the frontal armor of a Tiger I at 1,000 metres. It would be the tank that pierced the heart of Berlin, and would lead the invasion of South Korea by the North Koreans, beginning the Korean War.

[vintage-russia]

Red Army soldiers in Rauschen (now Svetlogorsk),Germany (1945)