Monday, 4 February 2013
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Saturday, 8 December 2012
8 December 2012. A Harvest Thanksgiving Still Life by Vadim Gippenreiter
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Friday, 7 December 2012
7 December 2012. Our Great Russian Motherland. Broad is My Motherland… Russia as Seen by Vadim Gippenreiter
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Here’s another image from the iconic Soviet photographer Vadim Gippenreiter… it’s a bear, feeding at dawn. If that isn’t quintessentially Russian…
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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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