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Looks very much like my father's Argus C3, which he must have gotten in the 50s & used until the late 70s. This one was carried by a Latvian boy who was sent with his mother to Siberia as part of Stalin's mass deportations (we met a survivor of those in Lithuania). Mother and son were held there from 1949 to 1957. The lens reads "Industar-22"; I looked that up & found that this lens was produced for 35 mm cameras made by KMZ in the Soviet Union from 1948 into the 1950s. But the body appears to be a Zorki-1 type C (a Leica II clone). It's got the bead around the leatherette & the rangefinder marked 1.2 & 1.7 instead of 1.25 and 1.75 (see www.sovietcams.com/index.php?-737528618). That means the camera must have been acquired in Sibera, since those were only made in 1951–1953 (probably towards the beginning of that time, since they switched to a different lens later).
Bratislava, Slovakia, 2024.
This is an image from the past. The Nová tržnica market was built during the socialist era, in the former Czechoslovakia, and looks the same as it did then. Workers and retirees continue to have lunch there as they did 40 years ago, eating the same menu and drinking Kofola (the socialist Coca-Cola, very popular in the former Czechoslovakia).
Brighton Beach in Brooklyn is known as Little Odessa, due to the volume of Russian immigrants. On the boardwalk, in the shops, in the restaurant and on the street, it was rare to hear a language I recognised. Sitting in chairs outside their apartment blocks or on the boardwalk were groups of pensioners, passing the time of day talking and listening to crackly Russian radio. Unsmiling and unfriendly, they exuded a terrible sense of sadness, of wishing they were elsewhere. They were like ghosts of their former selves.
The sun sets over MK.IX Spitfire PT879, one of around 1300 Spitfires consigned to Russia as part of a wartime Lend-Lease program. Constructed at the Vickers Armstrong factory in Castle Bromwich in August 1944, PT879 was shipped via Murmansk to the 2nd Squadron, 767th regiment, 122nd Division of the Russian airforce. PT879 crashed during a dogfight over the Kola peninsula in spring 1945 with just 29 hours on the airframe and was abandoned. The freezing environment preserved the aircraft well, and PT879 was recovered to the UK in 1998, the only Spitfire transferred to Russia to have returned. Much of the original aircraft has been salvaged despite the high speed crash and hundreds of the original parts including the wings reused in the restoration to flying condition making this one of the most original Spitfires from WW2.
An absolute gem and a pleasure to photograph.
In 1992 when I was visiting Berlin the remaining Soviet soldiers had essentially been abandoned by the collapsed Soviet Union. Most of them were selling their gear to get enough money to get back home. This greatcoat was bought from a former Soviet captain in Berlin.
Replica of one of the last Soviet Union flags at Kremlin (as per the explanation that hangs next to it), on a building near Checkpoint Charlie.
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Quick test of a re-purposed tool,in the garden. Not SOOC this one,as i had to heal some of the circle of leds in a quick pp fix as i knocked them during spinning.....oh well Sh*t happens i guess !! (thought the colour scheme reminded me of the old soviet posters hence the title)
Here is the same TT scale locomotive as in 'Soviet steam I', just seen from the other side. The environment was made by Midjourney version 4.
As the Romanians began falling back from northern Moldavia, the 2nd Army consolidated their forces around the town of Târgu Frumos, less than 50km west of Iași. As the Soviets moved closer, it was decided that the 1st Tank Destroyer Battalion and the remainder of V Corps’ cavalry would be sent south to the crossroads at Săbăoani to secure their escape route. Shortly after giving the order to evacuate the wounded, elements of the Soviet 12th Army had begun probing attacks against the Romanian western flank.
The Stavka had ordered the 12th and 9th Armies to complete the encirclement of the Romanian force by linking up just south of Târgu Frumos. However, coordination and communication between the two armies was poor. 12th Army’s 17th Rifle Corps briefly succeeded in taking the road leading south from the town early on the 26th, but were forced back before they were able to dig in. 9th Army, which was only just finishing up the siege of Iași, wouldn’t join the attack until the next day. These scattered, uncoordinated attacks meant that the Romanians could focus their full strength on these attacks one at a time, and were able to calmly organize their evacuation.
After realizing that coordinating the two armies was proving to be nearly impossible, the Soviets decided to turn their attention towards inflicting casualties on the retreating forces before they got away completely unscathed. The Romanians anticipated this, and did their best to organize defensive strongholds along the route. Any available high ground was occupied by artillery batteries, and any wooded area along the road concealed a machine gun nest. Unfortunately, more than half of the 80km road from Târgu Frumos to Bacău was on flat, open terrain, which would only be loosely screened by the few remaining cavalry units. Despite the cavalry’s best efforts, Soviet forces frequently broke through this screen, wreaking havoc on the Romanian columns. One of these attacks routed most of the 10th Infantry Division, who then abandoned most of their heavy equipment and retreated due west to Piatra Neamț. However, all of these attacks would eventually outrun their supply lines and be pushed back by the next Romanian unit that came upon them, keeping the road open.
Still unsatisfied, the Stavka ordered one last assault on Târgu Frumos itself, where an estimated one-third of 2nd Army’s forces were still located, on the 28th. By that point, the Romanian rearguard was significantly weaker, and it did not take much for the Soviets to break through and enter the town itself, engaging the defenders in bitter street fighting. By the end of the day, Târgu Frumos had been almost completely surrounded, but a breakout spearheaded by the remnants of 2nd Tank Division led the surviving Romanians to safety.
Aside from the occasional strafing run or failed attack on Săbăoani, the march to Bacău from there on was fairly uneventful for the Romanians. By the end of the 29th, the last units had successfully reached the foothills of the Carpathians, from which the 2nd Army would make their last stand.
Over the course of the Prut-Siret Operations, 2nd Army had suffered 6,000 killed or captured (although they gained about 3,000 men who broke out from Iași), with another 3,600 wounded who were safely evacuated, while inflicting similar losses on the Soviets. The Royal War Council would later look back in highsight and debate whether or not the situation would have played out more favorably if 2nd Army had tried to hold out longer before retreating or even attempt to counterattack, as the Soviets were vulnerable from overextending their supply lines. While 2nd Army’s command was eventually cleared of any wrongdoing, it was clear that their habit of putting up token resistance before retreating en masse, regardless of how well it preserved Romania’s precious manpower, was having a demoralizing effect on the troops. Shortly after 2nd Army began digging in around Bacău, its Chief of Staff remarked, “Hopefully, the men will prove they can fight as well as they can run.”
-Side Note-
Has anyone noticed that I've used the same dark tan layered plate set up for the past 5 scenes?
Soviet Pacific "SP 198" shoves hard against a coal load snaking its way thru the Mitchell Curves. Tennessee Pass is drawing too a close, in the summer of 1997.....
A Soviet ZAZ-968M also known as Zaporozhets. Was designed as a cheap, compact and fuel saving car. Looks very similar to a German NSU Prinz IV.
УАЗ-452, nickname "Bukhanka" [bread loaf] -- This tough as simple van has been produced with minor modifications since 1965. It is used as a transporter, ambulance, military vehicle -- a typical multifunctional utility van. Recently it has been promoted as a lifestyle van for camping and offroad adventures. I modelled it in its simple stock design, using a record number of 1x1 SNOT bricks. I chose to design the front with different kinds of slopes set off just a bit to get both a horizontal and a vertical shaping. The roof is made from 1x2 panels representing the grooves and a slight bow, the tiles in front allow for a slight overhang of the roof over the windshield.