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The Soviet War Memorial in Vienna, more formally known as the Heldendenkmal der Roten Armee (English: Heroes' Monument of the Red Army) is located at Vienna's Schwarzenbergplatz. The semi-circular white marble colonnade partially enclosing a twelve-metre figure of a Red Army Soldier was unveiled in 1945.The Heroes' Monument of the Red Army in Vienna was built to commemorate 17,000 Soviet soldiers who fell in the Battle for Vienna of World War II.
The redo is here! I did not consider with my first version that this was a fiberglass movie-made vehicle built on a 1980s Jeep chassis. Thankfully, I looked at a couple prop sites that sold the duck in the past, and lo and behold, they had dimensions! It’s quite a bit wider than a real WWII Ford GPA or GAZ 46 (~81cm difference makes the Indy one about two studs wider).
All pieces can be acquired in real life!
Also, any Russian speakers know what the rear text means? Google translate gives gibberish. Vehicle code?
These soccer bleachers in northern Moldova, one of the poorest nations in Europe, have fallen in complete disrepair since the fall of the Soviet Union. The wonderful people of Moldova are making a slow but sure rebound since 2009 when the Communist party lost control. Moldova is currently seeking entrance into the European Union.
During the construction of Novopolotsk, architects and artists worked closely with each other. As a result of this cooperation, specialists from Vitebsk art workshops have created mosaics on a variety of topics on new houses. Despite the fact that some of the mosaics have already been destroyed, the total volume of mosaic panels in Novopolotsk remains one of the largest in the republic.
При строительстве г. Новополоцка архитекторы и художники плотно сотрудничали друг с другом. В результате этого сотрудничества на новых домах специалистами Витебских художественных мастерских появились мозаики на самые разные темы. Несмотря на то, что часть мозаик уже уничтожена, общий объём мозаичных панно в Новополоцке остаётся одним из крупнейших в республике.
What may end up being my final update to my Soviet Armor collection, as college looms, my production of tanks must slow, and thus I will be doing few larger/complex tanks instead of many less complex tanks. This is not a goodbye as I intend to at least build one new tank a year, and even that is a few years away. The row closest is my pride and joy, my KV-6 and my SU-76I. The next row is a modified BM IS-3 and my Russian Panther/T-5. The following row is my IS-2 and IS-1. The row after that is my ISU-122 early and ISU-152. The next row is my modified BM T-34/76 and SU-152. The following row is my T-34/85 and SU-14-1 prototype. And finally my SU-100Y.
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Bratislava apartments built during the Soviet occupation. Once a dull, base concrete color, most have now been painted a brighter gray with splashes of color added. We were lucky enough to do some home visits and found that the buildings are well constructed, with rooms that were larger and brighter than I expected.
Mezhyhirya Residence Museum, Kiev, Ukraine.
The Mezhyhirya residence was built in the Soviet period on the site of a monastery that had stood there since the 14th century before being destroyed by the Bolsheviks. The Soviet regime, under which Ukraine lived for 70 years, tried to provide for all its leaders’ needs. Top communists were rewarded with a package that included a house in the country – a so-called ‘dacha’. Mezhyhirya, which was at the disposal of the leader of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, fell into this category.
After Ukrainian independence the building was used to accommodate foreign delegations, but when in 2002 Viktor Yanukovych was appointed Prime Minister and moved to Kiev from industrial Donetsk he decided he would like to live at Mezhyhiriya. Initially he rented it, but the Orange Revolution brought a fall in his living standards – a terrible thing for Post-Soviet Man. The new government, headed by president Yushchenko and PM Tymoshenko, evicted him from his home.
But a year later, after the fall of the Orange dream team, Yanukovych returned to the post of Prime Minister and secured the right to Move back into Mezhyhiriya, which was still government property. And another year later, in 2007, when he left his post, he took the house with him.
In Yanukovych’s final weeks as Prime Minister, his government illegally privatised Mezhyhiriya. No money was paid to the state for its sale; instead, a couple of semi- derelict buildings in Kiev were handed over in return (they have continued to fall down ever since).
Mezhyhiriya, meanwhile, was acquired, without any competitive tendering process, by a Donetsk company called ‘MedInvestTraid’, which immediately resold it and a few years later filed for bankruptcy. Was someone covering their tracks?
In 2009, after an unsuccessful bid to create a political alliance with Viktor Yanukovych, Yulia Tymoshenko tried to return Mezhyhiriya to state ownership, but nothing came of it. MPs from Yanukovych’s party removed all the documents relating to the sale from the government departments involved. Yanukovych lived in it from 2002 to 21 February 2014, when he abandoned the estate during the 2014 Ukrainian Revolution.
For video, please visit youtu.be/mr-rWbtde3I
Ground floor of a Soviet era built apartment building in Žižkov district. Original shot out of my phone, made with Vivid filter on top as usual.
Update (17-Oct-2018): I've visited this place again last weekend and found out that it has been repaired and doesn't look this way anymore. This photo could be considered historical as from now. :)
P.S. There are at least 10 floors in this building and it is located in historic part of the city. If you can get roof access there, probably you can make unusual panoramas over this part of the city.
Wall design in an abandoned casern showing workers, farmers, combat aircrafts, soldiers, prefab housing, rockets, olympic games...
During the construction of Novopolotsk, architects and artists worked closely with each other. As a result of this cooperation, specialists from Vitebsk art workshops have created mosaics on a variety of topics on new houses. Despite the fact that some of the mosaics have already been destroyed, the total volume of mosaic panels in Novopolotsk remains one of the largest in the republic.
При строительстве г. Новополоцка архитекторы и художники плотно сотрудничали друг с другом. В результате этого сотрудничества на новых домах специалистами Витебских художественных мастерских появились мозаики на самые разные темы. Несмотря на то, что часть мозаик уже уничтожена, общий объём мозаичных панно в Новополоцке остаётся одним из крупнейших в республике.
(GAZ 21 3rd series "Volga")
Советская автолегенда (ГАЗ 21 3-я серия "Волга")
Styling HDR
Стилизация HDR
I was just playing around with different minifig desgins then thought of this, I think its pretty good for a purist torso
In the south, the 13th Guards Rifle Division cleaned up the Korsun-Cherkassy Pocket, before pushing into Romania and Hungary.
Meanwhile, to the North, the 10th Guards Tank Division participated in Operation Bagration, taking Minsk.
Thanks for all the support in 2016! Here’s to what 2017 has in store!
Raising Soviet Flag over the Reichstag, a photograph taken on 2 May 1945
The Battle of Berlin, designated the Berlin Strategic Offensive Operation by the USSR, and also known as the Fall of Berlin, was one of the last major offensives of the European theatre of World War II.