Big Great Patriotic War site

[John Kettler]

Found this while trying to locate a wartime pic of a destroyed Tiger I credited to Novosti Press Agency.

It's got participant accounts, lots of pictures by some of the best wartime photographers, even MP3s of wartime songs. It's a major GPW commemoration by the modern version of Novosti. Enjoy!

http://eng.9may.ru/

Regards,

John Kettler

[Aco4bn187inf]

Nice. Good posters, too.

[undead reindeer cavalry]

from the story of the day:

He began fighting in 1940 against the Finns and took part in the famous landing at Hango. The Finns had machine guns and the Russians only had rifles. But Russian marines are different from anyone else because they do not fear anyone anywhere. They took Hango and soaked the Finns in blood.

Every time I visit Karelia I remember my grandfather: had he and his comrades been less courageous and brave, we would not have seen this beauty. Russians forever discouraged Finns from venturing into what was originally Russian land.

if i didn't know any better i'd take that site as a joke or a parody. it's saddening that our dear neighbours still today live at the depths of some parallel universe out of the Twilight Zone.

[Fußball]

Once, on a reconnaissance raid, they slaughtered Germans in a dugout with knives

This particular line reminds me of a John Wayne film I once seen.

Tschüß!

Erich

[undead reindeer cavalry]

the heroic battle for Hango is my favorite. would be even better if there actually had been a battle for it and it would not have been given to Soviets AFTER the war. though who knows, perhaps the Soviet troops in error battled each other there. wouldn't have been the first time.