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September 15, 2026 at 12:39 PM
#OTD #TDIH #August28,1979: #KonstantinSimonov, author of #WaitForMe, one of the #MostPopularPoems & most popular #RussianPoems ever written, first published in #Pravda on #January14,1942, #dies. #WarPoems #RussianPoetry #GreatPatrioticWar #WWII #PoetrySky #WWIISky
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August 27, 2026 at 11:16 PM
#OTD #TDIH #August28,1979: #KonstantinSimonov, author of #WaitForMe, one of the #MostPopularPoems & most popular #RussianPoems ever written, first published in #Pravda on #January14,1942, #dies. #WarPoems #RussianPoetry #GreatPatrioticWar #WWII #PoetrySky #WWIISky
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#OTD #TDIH #August28,1979: #KonstantinSimonov, author of #WaitForMe, one of the #MostPopularPoems & most popular #RussianPoems ever written, first published in #Pravda on #January14,1942, #dies. #WarPoems #RussianPoetry #GreatPatrioticWar #WWII #PoetrySky #WWIISky
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August 27, 2026 at 11:24 PM
#OTD #TDIH #August28,1979: #KonstantinSimonov, author of #WaitForMe, one of the #MostPopularPoems & most popular #RussianPoems ever written, first published in #Pravda on #January14,1942, #dies. #WarPoems #RussianPoetry #GreatPatrioticWar #WWII #PoetrySky #WWIISky
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#OTD #TDIH #August28,1979: #KonstantinSimonov, author of #WaitForMe, one of the #MostPopularPoems & most popular #RussianPoems ever written, first published in #Pravda on #January14,1942, #dies. #WarPoems #RussianPoetry #GreatPatrioticWar #WWII #PoetrySky #WWIISky
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Wait For Me! |Poem| By Konstantin Simonov
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August 27, 2026 at 11:18 PM
#OTD #TDIH #August28,1979: #KonstantinSimonov, author of #WaitForMe, one of the #MostPopularPoems & most popular #RussianPoems ever written, first published in #Pravda on #January14,1942, #dies. #WarPoems #RussianPoetry #GreatPatrioticWar #WWII #PoetrySky #WWIISky
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#OTD #TDIH #August28,1979: #KonstantinSimonov, author of #WaitForMe, one of the #MostPopularPoems & most popular #RussianPoems ever written, first published in #Pravda on #January14,1942, #dies. #WarPoems #RussianPoetry #GreatPatrioticWar #WWII #PoetrySky #WWIISky
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Wait for Me read by Sir Laurence Olivier || Стихотворение "Жди меня" читает Сэр Лоуренс Оливье
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August 27, 2026 at 11:17 PM
#OTD #TDIH #August28,1979: #KonstantinSimonov, author of #WaitForMe, one of the #MostPopularPoems & most popular #RussianPoems ever written, first published in #Pravda on #January14,1942, #dies. #WarPoems #RussianPoetry #GreatPatrioticWar #WWII #PoetrySky #WWIISky
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Ни фига себе! (Ni fi-ga se-be!)!! - the Mailman delivered!! Gotta get reading right away! #WhatAreYouReading #BookReviews #20thCenturyHistory #MilitaryHistory #SovietHistory #NaziHistory #GreatPatrioticWar #RussianHistory #BelarussianHistory #UkrainianHistory #GermanHistory #Wehrmacht #HistBookChat
August 25, 2026 at 11:33 AM
Ни фига себе! (Ni fi-ga se-be!)!! - the Mailman delivered!! Gotta get reading right away! #WhatAreYouReading #BookReviews #20thCenturyHistory #MilitaryHistory #SovietHistory #NaziHistory #GreatPatrioticWar #RussianHistory #BelarussianHistory #UkrainianHistory #GermanHistory #Wehrmacht #HistBookChat
Trip to the UK and Spain for the eclipse -there was a #Thriftscore! #WhatAreYouReading #BookReviews #20thCenturyHistory #MilitaryHistory #NaziHistory #GermanHistory #SovietHistory #RussianHistory #UkrainianHistory #BelarussianHistory #GreatPatrioticWar #Wehrmacht #RedArmy #WWIIHistory #HistBookChat
August 16, 2026 at 8:52 AM
Trip to the UK and Spain for the eclipse -there was a #Thriftscore! #WhatAreYouReading #BookReviews #20thCenturyHistory #MilitaryHistory #NaziHistory #GermanHistory #SovietHistory #RussianHistory #UkrainianHistory #BelarussianHistory #GreatPatrioticWar #Wehrmacht #RedArmy #WWIIHistory #HistBookChat
Trip to the UK and Spain for the eclipse -there was a #Thriftscore! #WhatAreYouReading #BookReviews #20thCenturyHistory #MilitaryHistory #NavGeek #NavalHistory #BritishImperialHistory #RN #SovietHistory #GreatPatrioticWar #RussianHistory #NaziHistory #GermanHistory #Convoys #ASW #HistBookChat
August 9, 2026 at 1:05 PM
Trip to the UK and Spain for the eclipse -there was a #Thriftscore! #WhatAreYouReading #BookReviews #20thCenturyHistory #MilitaryHistory #NavGeek #NavalHistory #BritishImperialHistory #RN #SovietHistory #GreatPatrioticWar #RussianHistory #NaziHistory #GermanHistory #Convoys #ASW #HistBookChat
#Putin's "special military operation" in #Ukraine has now lasted longer than #Russia's #GreatPatrioticWar. The #Kremlin has failed to break the Ukrainian spirit, but continues to inflict suffering with air attacks and #blackouts in the dead of winter. Read more in the Daily Ukraine Update:
Ukraine Update: January 11, 2026
Three Day War Last Longer than (Soviet) WWII
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January 12, 2026 at 12:08 AM
#Putin's "special military operation" in #Ukraine has now lasted longer than #Russia's #GreatPatrioticWar. The #Kremlin has failed to break the Ukrainian spirit, but continues to inflict suffering with air attacks and #blackouts in the dead of winter. Read more in the Daily Ukraine Update:
"Announcement of the beginning of the Great Patriotic War. Moscow on June 22, 1941". (photo by Evgeny Khaldey)
#GreatPatrioticWar #USSR #SovietUnion #Germany #War
#GreatPatrioticWar #USSR #SovietUnion #Germany #War
June 22, 2026 at 4:42 PM
"Announcement of the beginning of the Great Patriotic War. Moscow on June 22, 1941". (photo by Evgeny Khaldey)
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#GreatPatrioticWar #USSR #SovietUnion #Germany #War
Workers of factories and plants in Moscow are preparing to defend the city. Ivan Shagin. October 1941
#WorkersMilitia #War #GreatPatrioticWar #Moscow #USSR #SovietUnion #Defense #Defence
#WorkersMilitia #War #GreatPatrioticWar #Moscow #USSR #SovietUnion #Defense #Defence
May 31, 2026 at 5:58 PM
Workers of factories and plants in Moscow are preparing to defend the city. Ivan Shagin. October 1941
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#WorkersMilitia #War #GreatPatrioticWar #Moscow #USSR #SovietUnion #Defense #Defence
The Main Directorate of Counter-Intelligence "SMERSH" was officially announced in existence 14 April 1943, although was probably formed in late 1942 or even earlier.
#Smersh #Abakumov #CounterIntelligence #USSR #SovietUnion #GreatPatrioticWar #MilitaryIntelligence
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April 14, 2026 at 4:17 PM
The Main Directorate of Counter-Intelligence "SMERSH" was officially announced in existence 14 April 1943, although was probably formed in late 1942 or even earlier.
#Smersh #Abakumov #CounterIntelligence #USSR #SovietUnion #GreatPatrioticWar #MilitaryIntelligence
#Smersh #Abakumov #CounterIntelligence #USSR #SovietUnion #GreatPatrioticWar #MilitaryIntelligence
#Stalingrad is more than a word.
The city that never surrendered.
The city that broke the spine of Hitler’s war machine.
The city that turned the tides of the #GreatPatrioticWar & #WWII.
⚔️ From February 2, 1943, the road ran only one way – back to Berlin.
The city that never surrendered.
The city that broke the spine of Hitler’s war machine.
The city that turned the tides of the #GreatPatrioticWar & #WWII.
⚔️ From February 2, 1943, the road ran only one way – back to Berlin.
February 2, 2026 at 3:50 PM
#Stalingrad is more than a word.
The city that never surrendered.
The city that broke the spine of Hitler’s war machine.
The city that turned the tides of the #GreatPatrioticWar & #WWII.
⚔️ From February 2, 1943, the road ran only one way – back to Berlin.
The city that never surrendered.
The city that broke the spine of Hitler’s war machine.
The city that turned the tides of the #GreatPatrioticWar & #WWII.
⚔️ From February 2, 1943, the road ran only one way – back to Berlin.
14 January 1944. Portrait of the Belarusian partisan Alena Ostapovna Ataman with her daughter Marusya in her arms. Photographer: Pavel Troshkin
#Belarussian #Partisan #GreatPatrioticWar #USSR #SovietUnion #Victory #Liberation
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January 15, 2026 at 7:56 PM
14 January 1944. Portrait of the Belarusian partisan Alena Ostapovna Ataman with her daughter Marusya in her arms. Photographer: Pavel Troshkin
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#Belarussian #Partisan #GreatPatrioticWar #USSR #SovietUnion #Victory #Liberation
"Free us!" USSR poster. 1944. Artist: Pyotr Tarasovich Maltsev
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July 26, 2025 at 10:18 PM
"Free us!" USSR poster. 1944. Artist: Pyotr Tarasovich Maltsev
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#War #GreatPatrioticWar #USSR #SovietUnion #WW2 #Free #Victory #Liberation #Poster #Art #Artist
"Reception in the Kremlin Palace, 24 May 1945" Dmitry Nalbandyan (1947)
#GreatPatrioticWar #USSR #SovietUnion #Victory #Germany #May #Nalbandyan #Socialism #Communism #Stalin #Soviets #Soviet #Kremlin #Palace
#GreatPatrioticWar #USSR #SovietUnion #Victory #Germany #May #Nalbandyan #Socialism #Communism #Stalin #Soviets #Soviet #Kremlin #Palace
February 18, 2025 at 2:09 PM
"Reception in the Kremlin Palace, 24 May 1945" Dmitry Nalbandyan (1947)
#GreatPatrioticWar #USSR #SovietUnion #Victory #Germany #May #Nalbandyan #Socialism #Communism #Stalin #Soviets #Soviet #Kremlin #Palace
#GreatPatrioticWar #USSR #SovietUnion #Victory #Germany #May #Nalbandyan #Socialism #Communism #Stalin #Soviets #Soviet #Kremlin #Palace
Sailors of the Baltic Fleet talk to a little girl, Lucy, whose parents died from hunger during the Siege of Leningrad.
© Sputnik / Boris Kudoyarov
#GreatPatrioticWar #Leningrad #Siege #USSR #SovietUnion #Socialism #Communism #Lucy #Parents #Hunger #Baltic
© Sputnik / Boris Kudoyarov
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January 25, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Sailors of the Baltic Fleet talk to a little girl, Lucy, whose parents died from hunger during the Siege of Leningrad.
© Sputnik / Boris Kudoyarov
#GreatPatrioticWar #Leningrad #Siege #USSR #SovietUnion #Socialism #Communism #Lucy #Parents #Hunger #Baltic
© Sputnik / Boris Kudoyarov
#GreatPatrioticWar #Leningrad #Siege #USSR #SovietUnion #Socialism #Communism #Lucy #Parents #Hunger #Baltic
Young women of Dagestani origin (part of the RSFSR, USSR) who took part in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. © Sputnik / A. Zhigaylov
#USSR #SovietUnion #Dagestan #GreatPatrioticWar #WorldWarTwo #Socialism #Communism
#USSR #SovietUnion #Dagestan #GreatPatrioticWar #WorldWarTwo #Socialism #Communism
January 21, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Young women of Dagestani origin (part of the RSFSR, USSR) who took part in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. © Sputnik / A. Zhigaylov
#USSR #SovietUnion #Dagestan #GreatPatrioticWar #WorldWarTwo #Socialism #Communism
#USSR #SovietUnion #Dagestan #GreatPatrioticWar #WorldWarTwo #Socialism #Communism
'Sister of Mercy', Marat Samsonov, USSR, 1954
#GreatPatrioticWar #SecondWorldWar #WW2 #USSR #SovietUnion #RedArmy #SovietRedArmy
#GreatPatrioticWar #SecondWorldWar #WW2 #USSR #SovietUnion #RedArmy #SovietRedArmy
January 1, 2025 at 2:38 PM
'Sister of Mercy', Marat Samsonov, USSR, 1954
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#GreatPatrioticWar #SecondWorldWar #WW2 #USSR #SovietUnion #RedArmy #SovietRedArmy
So I ended up watching Tarkovsky's Ivan's Childhood from 1962.
And I realized I had a lot of thoughts about it.
So I wrote what is by far my longest entry on Letterboxd. Yet.
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#FilmSky #MovieSky #WW2 #SovietUnion #Tarkovsky #GreatPatrioticWar
And I realized I had a lot of thoughts about it.
So I wrote what is by far my longest entry on Letterboxd. Yet.
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#FilmSky #MovieSky #WW2 #SovietUnion #Tarkovsky #GreatPatrioticWar
May 9, 2025 at 7:49 PM
So I ended up watching Tarkovsky's Ivan's Childhood from 1962.
And I realized I had a lot of thoughts about it.
So I wrote what is by far my longest entry on Letterboxd. Yet.
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#FilmSky #MovieSky #WW2 #SovietUnion #Tarkovsky #GreatPatrioticWar
And I realized I had a lot of thoughts about it.
So I wrote what is by far my longest entry on Letterboxd. Yet.
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#FilmSky #MovieSky #WW2 #SovietUnion #Tarkovsky #GreatPatrioticWar
#KonstantinSimonov #November28,1915- #August28,1979)
Author of #WaitForMe ( #WaitForMePoem ), one of the #MostPopularPoems & most popular #RussianPoems ever written, first published in #Pravda on #January14,1942. #WarPoems #RussianPoetry #GreatPatrioticWar #WWII
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Author of #WaitForMe ( #WaitForMePoem ), one of the #MostPopularPoems & most popular #RussianPoems ever written, first published in #Pravda on #January14,1942. #WarPoems #RussianPoetry #GreatPatrioticWar #WWII
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Wait for Me (poem) - Wikipedia
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April 4, 2026 at 6:04 PM
#KonstantinSimonov #November28,1915- #August28,1979)
Author of #WaitForMe ( #WaitForMePoem ), one of the #MostPopularPoems & most popular #RussianPoems ever written, first published in #Pravda on #January14,1942. #WarPoems #RussianPoetry #GreatPatrioticWar #WWII
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Author of #WaitForMe ( #WaitForMePoem ), one of the #MostPopularPoems & most popular #RussianPoems ever written, first published in #Pravda on #January14,1942. #WarPoems #RussianPoetry #GreatPatrioticWar #WWII
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