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Image: A girl brutally murdered by the Germans on a street in Minsk
Image: Bearers of "culture" burned the drama theater
Image: This is what the Germans did to the handsome Minsk
Image: To Minsk! - And not knowing fatigue, the soldiers made a march with battles of 30-35 km per day
Image: Forward to Minsk! - and everyone was in a hurry to quickly rescue the capital of Belarus from German bondage
Image: Head of the Political Department of the Guards Division Colonel Kosachev Alexander Ivanovich, having burst into Minsk together with the vanguard, hoisted the Red Banner over the building of the Government of the Byelorussian SSR
Image: The division commander, Colonel Klimakhin Sergei Efimovich, under whose command the division was one of the first to enter the capital of Belarus - the city of Minsk
Image: All that remains of the Orsha garrison that defended the city
Image: In the Belarusian village after the deadly battles
Image: Orsha is free! - Residents return from the forests to their hometown
Image: Orphans in the village Tatarskaya (4 km. West of Orsha) Their parents were shot by the Germans
Image: A girl brutally murdered by the Germans on a street in Minsk
Image: Bearers of "culture" burned the drama theater
Image: This is what the Germans did to the handsome Minsk
Image: To Minsk! - And not knowing fatigue, the soldiers made a march with battles of 30-35 km per day
Image: Forward to Minsk! - and everyone was in a hurry to quickly rescue the capital of Belarus from German bondage
Image: Head of the Political Department of the Guards Division Colonel Kosachev Alexander Ivanovich, having burst into Minsk together with the vanguard, hoisted the Red Banner over the building of the Government of the Byelorussian SSR
Image: The division commander, Colonel Klimakhin Sergei Efimovich, under whose command the division was one of the first to enter the capital of Belarus - the city of Minsk
Image: All that remains of the Orsha garrison that defended the city
Image: In the Belarusian village after the deadly battles
Image: Orsha is free! - Residents return from the forests to their hometown
Image: Orphans in the village Tatarskaya (4 km. West of Orsha) Their parents were shot by the Germans
Image: Head of the Political Department of the Guards Division Colonel Kosachev Alexander Ivanovich, having burst into Minsk together with the vanguard, hoisted the Red Banner over the building of the Government of the Byelorussian SSR

Image: Head of the Political Department of the Guards Division Colonel Kosachev Alexander Ivanovich, having burst into Minsk together with the vanguard, hoisted the Red Banner over the building of the Government of the Byelorussian SSR

Image: Head of the Political Department of the Guards Division Colonel Kosachev Alexander Ivanovich, having burst into Minsk together with the vanguard, hoisted the Red Banner over the building of the Government of the Byelorussian SSR

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