Have you seen higher snow? Let’s face it, you haven’t… this is what the Fascists faced in the winter of ’41 (one of the nastiest winters on record, even for Russia). It’s what Marshal Zhukov meant when he said, “The Russian Army has two great generals… General January and General February”. Georgi Konstantinovich knew a thing or two…
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A team from Perm in the Urals work on a snow sculpture based on a creation by Italian Renaissance artist Michelangelo during the 1st International Festival of Snow and Ice Sculpture “The Magical Ice of Siberia” on an embankment of the Yenisei River in Krasnoyarsk.
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Yep… we have a “Russian winter” this year in Russia. Novosibirsk lives up to Siberia‘s reputation…
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4 February 2013. Our Great Russian Motherland… The Celebration of the Victory at Stalingrad
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Fireworks at the site of the Родина-мать зовёт (Rodina Mat Zovyot: The Mother-Motherland Calls) monument on Mamayev Kurgan in the Hero City of Volgograd. Russia hasn’t forgotten the great victory of Stalingrad… from that point forward, the Red Army was on the counterattack. This was the highwater mark of the Fascist advance. The Red Army didn’t rest until it planted the Victory Banner on the Reichstag. The world is a better place because of the Great Victory… never forget that.
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