The Great Patriotic War

Original image: Victims of Nazi terror in the city of Orsha

Image: Victims of Nazi terror in the city of Orsha

Original image: Больше 2-х лет стоял этот плуг воткнутым в землю и ждал хозяина. Скоро снова, земля, поросшая сорняком при немцах, теперь уже освобожденная, будет возделана

Image: Больше 2-х лет стоял этот плуг воткнутым в землю и ждал хозяина. Скоро снова, земля, поросшая сорняком при немцах, теперь уже освобожденная, будет возделана

Original image: Orphans in the village Tatarskaya (4 km. West of Orsha) Their parents were shot by the Germans

Image: Orphans in the village Tatarskaya (4 km. West of Orsha) Their parents were shot by the Germans

Original image: Orsha is free! - Residents return from the forests to their hometown

Image: Orsha is free! - Residents return from the forests to their hometown

Original image: In the Belarusian village after the deadly battles

Image: In the Belarusian village after the deadly battles

Original image: All that remains of the Orsha garrison that defended the city

Image: All that remains of the Orsha garrison that defended the city

Original 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: 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

Original 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