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Монумент был открыт 4 ноября 1964 года, в седьмую годовщину успешного запуска советского искусственного спутника Земли. The monument to the founder of cosmonautics, K.E. Tsiolkovsky. The monument was unveiled on November 4, 1964, on the seventh anniversary of the successful launch of the Soviet artificial satellite.
Polish: Muzeum Katyńskie
The Katyn Museum is located at the site of Warsaw's citadel and commemorates the Katyn massacre ("zbrodnia katyńska" in Polish) - the mass murder of approximately 22000 Polish nationals carried out by the Soviet secret police (NKVD) in April and May 1940. The massacre was prompted by a proposal (dated 5th March 1940) from Lavrentiy Beria, Minister of Internal Affairs of the Soviet Union, to execute all members of the Polish Officer Corps who had been captured and imprisoned by the USSR during the Nazi-Soviet invasion of Poland in 1939. This official document was approved and signed by the Soviet Politburo, including its leader Joseph Stalin.
As well as approximately 8000 officers of the Polish army, the victims of the Katyń massacre included 6000 police officers and thousands of university lecturers, teachers, doctors, lawyers, civic leaders, politicians, government officials, priests and other members of the "bourgeoisie" who had been targeted for arrest following the Soviet occupation of eastern Poland.
By physically eliminating Poland’s military and civilian elites, Stalin wanted to decapitate the Polish nation and ensure it was less able to resist the enforced Sovietisation of the occupied Polish territories.
The victims were all citizens of Poland, but not all were ethnically Polish - for example, the murdered army officers included Ukrainians, Belarusians and several hundred Jews, among them Baruch Steinberg, the Chief Rabbi of the Polish army. The majority were interned at three Soviet camps (Kozielsk, Starobielsk and Ostaszków) before being taken to NKVD mass murder sites, where they were executed and buried in mass graves.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baruch_Steinberg
Although the killings took place at several different locations in Soviet Russia, Ukraine and Belarus, the massacre is named after the Katyń forest in the Smolensk Oblast of western Russia where the graves of the Kozielsk prisoners were discovered in 1943. The exact fate of the other victims and the location of their graves was not confirmed until five decades later. After the discovery of the Katyń burial site the USSR denied responsibility for the massacre and tried to blame it on the Germans, and continued to lie about the killings for 50 years until finally admitting Soviet guilt in 1990 and revealing where the remaining victims were buried.
It eventually became possible to exhume and identify the bodies from the mass murder sites at Charków (Kharkiv), where the NKVD murdered the prisoners who were interned at Starobielsk, and Miednoje (Mednoye), where the NKVD murdered the prisoners who were interned at Ostaszków - as well as other locations such as Bykownia (Bykivnia).
Most of the Ostaszków prisoners were killed by Beria's chief executioner Vasily Blokhin, who was awarded the Order of the Red Banner by Stalin at the end of April 1940 for demonstrating "skill and organisation in the effective carrying out of special tasks".
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasily_Blokhin
Although several other ex-members of the NKVD eventually confessed to participating in the Katyń massacre, none of the perpetrators were ever brought to justice, and neither the Soviet government nor successive governments of Russia have ever permitted a full investigation of this war crime.
There's also no shortage of vatniks, tankies and other useful idiots out there who are still in denial about it, even though claims that the murders were carried out by the Germans have zero credibility and have been comprehensively debunked (it's actually impossible for the Polish prisoners interned at Ostaszków - who disappeared without trace in 1940 and whose bodies were found in Miednoje in 1991 - to have been captured, killed and buried by the Germans, who never reached either of these locations in Russia at any time during World War 2)....
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Nationaal Militair Museum. Soest, Netherlands.
Museum that tells the military history of the Netherlands from it's beginnings as a nation state until the present day as a member of NATO. Built on the former air force base Soesterberg which was in service from 1913, occupied by the Luftwaffe in WW2 and the USAF 32 Tactical Fighter Sq. until 1994. The 7 km Munitiepark countryside walk takes you through forest and meadows past the old cold war ammunition bunkers, assembly areas and german military shooting range. Outside the museum are various aircraft from the graceful spitfire to the soviet mig.
Minaz 39002 scurries about the Ciro Redondo Sugar Mill during the busy harvest season. The 39002 is 1 of 144 TGM8-Ks built by the Soviet Union and sent to Cuba in exchange for certain "Privledges".
I dig the yellow dots on the under frame and trucks.
The aviation museum at Riga has a line-up of three Aero L-29 Delfins,a type of which over 3,600 were built, about two thirds of them being delivered to the Soviets.
Built in Czechoslovakia between 1959 and 1974, it was a contemporary to the Jet Provost and was largely replaced by Aero's sleeker L-39 Albatros.
Several still fly as civilian performers in various countries, including the United States.
This particular example, coded '22 blue' has the specific ID 290421.
Riga, Latvia
5th May 2017
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Four GAZ M-20 "Pobeda" cars (aerosedans) and the car GAZ-21 "Volga" following them in column.
Parade of classical cars in honor of a Victory Day (2012 May, 9th) (photo 6 of 6).
Парад классических автомобилей в честь Дня Победы (9 мая 2012).
Shots from Day 8 of my Silk Road Mountain Race. CP 2 at Kel-Suu, Old Soviet Road and the Pist enroute towards Naryn.
Soviet manufacturer AZLK and exporter Avtoexport entered a team of their "Moskvich" cars in the gruelling 1970 London-Mexico World Cup Rally. The three cars finished 12th, 17th & 20th out of a total of 23 finishers - very creditable for a 1500cc car on a course which covered approximately 16,000 miles (25,700 km) through Europe, South America and Central America. The cars were saloons, but were supported by a Moskvich 427 Estate car "Service Barge", which carries mechanics, spare parts etc. (hence the substantial roof rack. This is an excellently executed replica of the service barge, and took part in this year's SALT rally. It is pictured at rest at the water mill in Shepshed, Leicestershire.
The SALT Rally 2012 (SALT SIX) was held around Market Harborough. The SALT Rallies are for vehicles built in the Cold War period, and the events tour Cold-War related venues. Most of the participating vehicles come from the Soviet Bloc, but there is no political element, implied or actual in the SALT ethos.
Visit the Communist Classic Cars Panorama!
Camera: Nikon F5
Lens: Nikkor 28-80mm zoom
Film: Kodak Ektar 100
Skoda 130 Rapid Convertible, seen during SALT 8, the UK's only rally for Cold War Classics, held June 6-8 2014.
Camera: Nikon F5
Lens: Nikkor 28-80mm
Film: Kodak Ektar 100
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Red Army & Revolutionary re-enactors having a laugh at "Red October", 20th October 2013. This annual event, held at the National Tramway Museum at Crich in Derbyshire, is for Eastern-Bloc classic vehicles and re-enactors. No political statement is intended or implied.
Camera: Nikon F5
Lens: Nikkor 28-80mm
Film: Kodak Ektar 100 Colour saturation reduced in Photoshop
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Встреча советских и американских войск в районе города Линца (Австрия). В центре: младший лейтенант Ловчинов и старший лейтенант армии США Жак Хальтгрейвс пожимают друг другу руки. О. А. Ландер. 9 мая 1945 г.
The Freedom Monument is a monument honouring soldiers killed during the Latvian War of Independence. The granite and copper monument in the city core of Riga symbolizes Latvian statehood, national unity, independence and freedom. The monument was funded entirely by donations from residents. It was unveiled on November 18, 1935 as part of sculptor Karlis Zale’s project Shine Like a Star.
The 42.7 meter high monument is made up of 56 sculptures, divided into 13 sculptural groups on four levels, which depict Latvian history and culture. At the base of the monument, the motto For Fatherland and Freedom is inscribed.
At the top of the monument’s obelisk is the nine-meter symbol of freedom – a young woman holding three stars above her head, which symbolize the three historic provinces of Latvia, and national unity.
During the Soviet occupation, no flowers were allowed at the monument and public transport lanes ran on both sides to prevent people from approaching it.