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Original image: Belarusian collective farmers greeted their liberators with tears of joy. For two years their village was in the hands of the partisans, for two years they fought a fierce struggle with the Germans.
Original image: Before the fight. Political information
Original image: The infantrymen under Orsha were carefully preparing to break through the defense, they were engaged together with the self-propelled guns
Original image: At school before the breakthrough of the defense near Orsha
Original image: Soldiers stubbornly master military knowledge in breaks between battles
Original image: Bridge on the Vitebsk-Orsha highway, blown up by the Germans while retreating
Original image: The village of Babichi (Vitebsk region), burned down by the German fascist invaders. The villagers were driven to hard labor in Germany
Original image: Artillery Hero Battery Commander Captain Buts
Original image: From Lieutenant to Lieutenant Colonel - such is the glorious combat path of Nikolai Ivanovich Rabichev - deputy commander of the 979th artillery regiment for combat units, who passed the entire combat path with the division
Original image: The commander of the 1313th Rifle Minsk Regiment, Lieutenant Colonel Yarovoy Ivan Dmitrievich, who appears more than once in difficult moments of battle in the combat formations of his units
Original image: The favorite of soldiers and officers, the division commander Colonel Zaitsev Mikhail Ivanovich Died of severe wounds on February 22, 1944.
Original image: Belarusian collective farmers greeted their liberators with tears of joy. For two years their village was in the hands of the partisans, for two years they fought a fierce struggle with the Germans.
Original image: Before the fight. Political information
Original image: The infantrymen under Orsha were carefully preparing to break through the defense, they were engaged together with the self-propelled guns
Original image: At school before the breakthrough of the defense near Orsha
Original image: Soldiers stubbornly master military knowledge in breaks between battles
Original image: Bridge on the Vitebsk-Orsha highway, blown up by the Germans while retreating
Original image: The village of Babichi (Vitebsk region), burned down by the German fascist invaders. The villagers were driven to hard labor in Germany
Original image: Artillery Hero Battery Commander Captain Buts
Original image: From Lieutenant to Lieutenant Colonel - such is the glorious combat path of Nikolai Ivanovich Rabichev - deputy commander of the 979th artillery regiment for combat units, who passed the entire combat path with the division
Original image: The commander of the 1313th Rifle Minsk Regiment, Lieutenant Colonel Yarovoy Ivan Dmitrievich, who appears more than once in difficult moments of battle in the combat formations of his units
Original image: The favorite of soldiers and officers, the division commander Colonel Zaitsev Mikhail Ivanovich Died of severe wounds on February 22, 1944.
Original image: Bridge on the Vitebsk-Orsha highway, blown up by the Germans while retreating

Original image: Bridge on the Vitebsk-Orsha highway, blown up by the Germans while retreating

Original image: Bridge on the Vitebsk-Orsha highway, blown up by the Germans while retreating

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