The Great Patriotic War

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

Original image: Forward to Minsk! - and everyone was in a hurry to quickly rescue the capital of Belarus from German bondage

Image: Forward to Minsk! - and everyone was in a hurry to quickly rescue the capital of Belarus from German bondage

Original image: To Minsk! - And not knowing fatigue, the soldiers made a march with battles of 30-35 km per day

Image: To Minsk! - And not knowing fatigue, the soldiers made a march with battles of 30-35 km per day

Original image: This is what the Germans did to the handsome Minsk

Image: This is what the Germans did to the handsome Minsk

Original image: Bearers of "culture" burned the drama theater

Image: Bearers of "culture" burned the drama theater

Original image: A girl brutally murdered by the Germans on a street in Minsk

Image: A girl brutally murdered by the Germans on a street in Minsk

Original image: Hundreds of Soviet people were shot dead by the Germans before retreating from Minsk

Image: Hundreds of Soviet people were shot dead by the Germans before retreating from Minsk

Original image: Germans from the "Minsk pocket"

Image: Germans from the "Minsk pocket"