A collection of photographs from World War II helps us remember why we should never forget.
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Young Russian child getting something to eat in a displaced persons camp.
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1945, Russian civilians reading of a victory during World War II.
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A Russian soldier, too tired to celebrate the end of the war, falls asleep holding the reins of his horse.
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May 1945, Victorious Russian soldiers in Berlin, Germany, at the end of the Second World War.
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May 1, 1945: Displaced persons crossing a bridge on the River Elbe at Tangermunde to escape the chaos behind German lines caused by the approach of the advancing Russians.
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May 1945, A Russian slave laborer points out a German guard in a liberated Soviet concentration camp at the end of the war.
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1945, Liberated French prisoners on a road west of Berlin, passing by Russian tanks; the tanks travelled 2,000 miles during the course of the war.
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A Russian woman waiting for her laundry to dry at a a displaced persons camp in Germany.
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1944, Members of a Soviet tank battalion greeted by people in the war torn city of Lodz, Poland. A Soviet T-34 tank stands behind them.
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American soldiers take a lesson in fraternization from one of their Russian allies as he goes out walking with a girl in Berlin.
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March 1943, A 20-year-old Russian girl, whose brother is fighting the Germans in Russia, works as a machinist on a Russian cargo ship anchored at a harbor on the U.S. West Coast.
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1943, Soviet soldiers and resistance fighters sitting around a fire.
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Soviet Russian soldiers chat with women in defeated Germany.
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October 1942, Women carry supplies to the defenders as smoke rises over the city during the Battle of Stalingrad.
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October 1942, Russian doctors and nurses giving a blood transfusion at a tented field hospital.
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September 15, 1942, Red Army soldiers fishing on the Leningrad front.
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August 23, 1942, Russian "land girls," one driving a tractor, working on one of the vast agricultural districts in the area of Kyrgyzstan.
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1942, Two women sitting among debris during the siege of Leningrad. Trying to compel the Russian defenders to surrender, the German troops indiscriminately bombarded the city which resulted in enormous civilian losses.
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1941: Two Soviet light tanks overturned on Leningrad Highway, near Moscow. Most of the infantry tanks produced before World War II were too vulnerable to German attack. Images like these were never published in the Soviet press.
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1941: Women and children walking to eastern Russia after the German invasion.
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August 1941, Russian resistance fighters, young and old, sit on the grass.
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July 1941: A Russian tank crew receiving orders from their commander.
