lubitel
Well-known
Today is the day when Nazi Germany invaded USSR 65 years ago.
Here is a photo from Yevgeniy Chaldei of people in Moscow listening to the famous anouncement of the invasion. (found on this site http://kriegsende.aktuell.ru/fotos/ )
Here is a photo from Yevgeniy Chaldei of people in Moscow listening to the famous anouncement of the invasion. (found on this site http://kriegsende.aktuell.ru/fotos/ )
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RML
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Khaldei is one of my favourites. I saw an exhibtion of his photos in the Jewish Historical museum here in Amsterdam last year (IIRC). Impressive.
darkkavenger
Massimiliano Mortillaro
Some audio links about 22 june 1941 (in russian)
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Molotov - Speech on 22nd June 1941 [Audio] - [Text]
Levitan (famous russian speaker of wartime)
Levitan - Red Army summary on 22 june 1941 [Audio] - [Text]
Levitan - Soviet Radio broadcast on Germany attacks USSR [Audio] - [Text]
All links from the wonderful website Sovmusic.ru who has a large amount of soviet music and wartime speeches : http://english.sovmusic.ru/
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Molotov - Speech on 22nd June 1941 [Audio] - [Text]
Levitan (famous russian speaker of wartime)
Levitan - Red Army summary on 22 june 1941 [Audio] - [Text]
Levitan - Soviet Radio broadcast on Germany attacks USSR [Audio] - [Text]
All links from the wonderful website Sovmusic.ru who has a large amount of soviet music and wartime speeches : http://english.sovmusic.ru/
Jocko
Off With The Pixies
Here's another picture, taken two days later - one which I find extraordinarily moving. It's a casual family snapshot - out of true, flare on the lens.
The gentleman on the left is an Army reservist, just about to leave. You can tell at a glance he is not exactly the military type, but he's trying. He will probably be dead within weeks and knows it. Look at his astonishingly beautiful son, to whom it's all a great adventure - and then at that poor woman, wife and mother, who knows she should smile at the camera, but can't. She knows exactly what is coming. The scan does not begin to show the helpless despair on her face.
They are insignificant, respectable people. Anywhere else in Europe and one would not hesitate to call them bourgeois. They are ordinary people everywhere.
Perhaps it's worthwhile remembering that the crowd in Khaldei's photograph are listening to Molotov because Stalin was too scared to come to the microphone. So much for Great Men.
Ian
The gentleman on the left is an Army reservist, just about to leave. You can tell at a glance he is not exactly the military type, but he's trying. He will probably be dead within weeks and knows it. Look at his astonishingly beautiful son, to whom it's all a great adventure - and then at that poor woman, wife and mother, who knows she should smile at the camera, but can't. She knows exactly what is coming. The scan does not begin to show the helpless despair on her face.
They are insignificant, respectable people. Anywhere else in Europe and one would not hesitate to call them bourgeois. They are ordinary people everywhere.
Perhaps it's worthwhile remembering that the crowd in Khaldei's photograph are listening to Molotov because Stalin was too scared to come to the microphone. So much for Great Men.
Ian
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darkkavenger
Massimiliano Mortillaro
It is impressive to watch these pictures with the speech in background. I understand a few words of russian and can read cyrillic..
lubitel
Well-known
its cetainly interesting to read that anouncement text. Nothing would be the same for millions of people after that day. Its also interesting how he addresses people with "Workers, farmers and the inteligencia"
Jocko
Off With The Pixies
lubitel said:
And even moreso that when Stalin finally emerged on July 3, he dropped all such references in favour of "Comrades, Friends, Brothers and Sister's" - the latter the traditional preSoviet greeting. May I share two more photographs, both by Dmitri Baltermants - "The Road to War, 1941" and "Grief, 1942"?
Ian
