The past 2010 was an army year for me. As I wanted in the new 2011, I took with me only good memories of the army, and left all the bad ones in the past. After the army, there were a lot of photos left, a lot of friends with whom you can chat and remember funny moments, there was a uniform in which you sometimes want to walk around or arrange a photo shoot. But I managed to take with me something else that refreshes my memories of the army and my army activities. I was able to take home with me all the wall newspapers that I drew and wrote in the army! In principle, I am glad that in the army there was an opportunity to express myself creatively in this way. Sometimes this occupation saved me when everyone was driven out to do something in the cold, and I was sent to draw a wall newspaper. Sometimes it was very off topic, when you were already tired, and you also had to finish the wall newspaper. Then it was postponed utterly, and then, in an emergency mode, the newspaper was drawn "for fuck off" in one day. And sometimes, but rarely, we systematically made this work of art for a couple of weeks and then it turned out really well!)) Of course, my friends helped me, but for the most part all the wall newspapers were made by me. Some I did myself from beginning to end, and in some I trusted someone to finish something, write the text when I got too lazy or didn’t have time hard. As soon as I got into my battalion, and they transferred me from training on January 13, they discovered the main artist in me and the task was set - to prepare a wall newspaper for February by February 1! I approached the first newspaper with particular scrupulousness and it turned out to be the best. There she is:

Each newspaper had a theme, usually associated with a date, that fell on that month. The first is dedicated to the Defender of the Fatherland Day. On this topic and the text of historical information. But the rest of the headings of the newspaper are always the same and corresponded from newspaper to newspaper almost without changing.))

The second newspaper is dedicated to the Spetsstroy of Russia - the troops in which I served. Day of Spetsstroy Russia March 31. In the heading "Editorial Board" should be recorded by those who actually prepared the newspaper. But I prepared them for the most part and I had to add various comrades there. Some did not deserve to be written there, but they had to write. For example, senior fighters who made wall newspapers before me. As soon as I appeared, their participation in this activity was reduced to a minimum. And even when I asked for help, they often scored on the wall newspaper, because the demobilization and they do not care)) This newspaper did not come out very well. Who did not understand, in the figure of the structure that Spetsstroy built, and at the top this gray oblong crap is a submarine))

April newspaper on the topic "Day of Cosmonautics" Gagarin is not like. There was no inspiration

The May newspaper itself is dedicated to the Victory Day.

And this issue is dedicated to the opening on the territory of our part of the monument - a bust to the hero of the Soviet Union Alexander Sidorovich Mnatsakanov - a tanker who fought along the entire front, including on our Leningrad land. Here for the first time I became too lazy to redraw from the picture and I printed out a photograph of the monument in the right size, circled the outline through carbon paper and painted it over. Freeloader!)) And also pay attention to the column "Military discipline". In all the newspapers there was written the same type of nonsense, that everything is fine and the discipline is in order. And here I had to redo it, because the officers rejected it. That month, 2 soldiers from our company were sent to the lip for drinking in the hospital. And we wrote that discipline is nowhere cooler))

If I remember exactly, this newspaper was made in 1 day. I was lazy and the heat was terrible. We didn't want to do anything back then. Petya is very funny here))

August newspaper dedicated to the Builder's Day. Still all newspapers had to conform to the template and rules. Made in the same color scheme, margins, etc. In general, the maximum clamping of creative outpourings. Army ebt! In this newspaper, a violation of the rules - a crane on the entire sheet, goes beyond the field reserved for the drawing. our battalion officer for educational work rejected it and said to redo it. The idea, which the boys and I liked, had to be defended by the deputy commander of the unit for educational work, a lieutenant colonel. He liked it and the crane remained!))

There was no September paper. In part, whatman paper has run out. The command offered to buy at their own expense, but was sent to FIG!))

October. Communications Day. The drawing is also a carbon copy.

I didn't take the November newspaper, as it was hanging on the stand, and I quit on December 1st. I didn't make a newspaper for December. scored. Che I'm not demobilized or what? those who remained said that someone was forced to do it))
Well, this is me with my masterpiece:

Many thanks to my friends: Vitka, Dimka, Leshka, Vasya and Tolyan, who really often helped to make newspapers.
Well, this is a joke.

Ludmila Redkina

In February we celebrate Defender of the Fatherland Day. On this day, it is customary to congratulate our men: both former soldiers, and current defenders, and finally, future ones - our pupils. Time will pass, they will grow up and will no longer be children, but real defenders of the Motherland.

This year we decided to congratulate all future defenders with such an unusual newspaper.

For its manufacture we took idea: origami soldiers. Made soldiers. Everything is like supposed: uniform, shoulder straps, and weapons. We didn’t forget about our future nurses either! We photographed the guys, cut out the faces and pasted them on to our soldiers.

But what army without command The teachers and the headmaster were also dressed in uniform and put at the head of our armies!

Posted a congratulation:

Our warriors are full

Courage and honor!

On Defender's Day

We are all with them!

All the military with this day

Congratulations together!

And when we grow up

Let's serve our country!

After all, we play, because we fight make-believe:

We do not want to meet with trouble -

Neither Danil, nor Misha, nor Seryozhka.

Let wars remain just a game

And our girls do not cry from fear.

And let laughter flow everywhere like a river,

And above us - let the birds sing fervently.

Let the wars remain just a game

May no one ever perish;

And let the sun be a golden ray

Happiness embroiders in a peaceful sky!

And our newspaper is ready!

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No wonder propaganda and agitation was called the third front of the Great Patriotic War. It was here that the battle for the spirit of the people unfolded, which, in the end, decided the outcome of the war: Hitler's propaganda did not sleep either, but it turned out to be far from the sacred wrath of Soviet artists, poets, writers, journalists, composers ...

The Great Victory gave the country a reason for legitimate pride, which we also feel, the descendants of the heroes who defended their native cities, liberated Europe from a strong, cruel and insidious enemy.
The image of this enemy, as well as the image of the people who rallied to defend the Motherland, is most clearly presented on wartime posters, which raised propaganda art to an unprecedented height, which has not been surpassed to this day.

Wartime posters can be called soldiers: they hit right on target, shaping public opinion, creating a clear negative image of the enemy, rallying the ranks of Soviet citizens, giving rise to the emotion necessary for war: anger, rage, hatred - and at the same time, love for the family , which is threatened by the enemy, to his native home, to his homeland.

Propaganda materials were an important part of the Great Patriotic War. From the first days of the offensive of the Nazi army, propaganda posters appeared on the streets of Soviet cities, designed to raise the morale of the army and labor productivity in the rear, such as the propaganda poster "Everything for the front, everything for victory"!

This slogan was first proclaimed by Stalin during an address to the people in July 1941, when a difficult situation developed on the entire front, and German troops were rapidly advancing towards Moscow.

At the same time, the famous poster "The Motherland Calls" by Irakli Toidze appeared on the streets of Soviet cities. The collective image of a Russian mother calling on her sons to fight the enemy has become one of the most recognizable examples of Soviet propaganda.

Reproduction of the poster "The Motherland Calls!", 1941. Author Irakli Moiseevich Toidze

The posters varied in quality and content. German soldiers were portrayed as caricatured, miserable and helpless, while the Red Army soldiers demonstrated fighting spirit and unbroken faith in victory.

In the post-war period, propaganda posters were often criticized for excessive cruelty, but according to the memoirs of war participants, hatred of the enemy was that help, without which Soviet soldiers would hardly have been able to withstand the onslaught of the enemy army.

In 1941-1942, when the enemy rolled like an avalanche from the west, capturing more and more cities, crushing the defenses, destroying millions of Soviet soldiers, it was important for propagandists to inspire confidence in victory, that the Nazis were not invincible. The plots of the first posters were full of attacks and martial arts, they emphasized the nationwide struggle, the connection of the people with the party, with the army, they called for the destruction of the enemy.

One of the popular motives is an appeal to the past, an appeal to the glory of past generations, reliance on the authority of the legendary generals - Alexander Nevsky, Suvorov, Kutuzov, the heroes of the civil war.

Artists Viktor Ivanov “Our Truth. Fight to the death!”, 1942.

Artists Dmitry Moor "How did you help the front?", 1941.

"Victory will be ours", 1941

Poster V.B. Koretsky, 1941.

To support the Red Army - a mighty people's militia!

Poster by V. Pravdin, 1941.

Poster by artists Bochkov and Laptev, 1941.

In an atmosphere of general retreat and constant defeats, it was necessary not to succumb to decadent moods and panic. There was not a word about losses in the newspapers at that time, there were reports of individual personal victories of soldiers and crews, and this was justified.

The enemy on the posters of the first stage of the war appeared either impersonal, in the form of “black matter” bristling with metal, or a fanatic and marauder, doing inhuman deeds that cause horror and disgust. The German, as the embodiment of absolute evil, turned into a creature that the Soviet people had no right to endure on their own land.

The thousand-headed fascist hydra must be destroyed and thrown out, the battle is literally between Good and Evil - such is the pathos of those posters. Published in millions of copies, they still radiate strength and confidence in the inevitability of defeating the enemy.

Artist Victor Denis (Denisov) "The "face" of Hitlerism", 1941.

Artists Landres "Napoleon was cold in Russia, and Hitler will be hot!", 1941.

Artists Kukryniksy "We beat the enemy with a spear ...", 1941.

Artist Victor Denis (Denisov) “Why does a pig need culture and science?”, 1941.

Since 1942, when the enemy approached the Volga, took Leningrad into a blockade, reached the Caucasus, seized vast territories with civilians.

Posters began to reflect the suffering of Soviet people, women, children, the elderly in the occupied land and the irresistible desire of the Soviet Army to defeat Germany, to help those who are unable to fend for themselves.

Artist Viktor Ivanov "The hour of reckoning with the Germans for all their atrocities is near!", 1944.

Artist P.Sokolov-Skala "Fighter, take revenge!", 1941.

Artist S.M. Mochalov "Revenge", 1944.

The slogan "Kill the German!" spontaneously appeared among the people in 1942, its origins, among others, are in the article “Kill!” by Ilya Erengburg. Many posters that appeared after it (“Dad, kill the German!”, “Baltic! Save your beloved girl from shame, kill the German!”, “Less German - victory is closer,” etc.) combined the image of a fascist and a German into one object of hatred.

“We must tirelessly see before us the face of a Hitlerite: this is the target at which you need to shoot without a miss, this is the personification of what we hate. Our duty is to incite hatred of evil and strengthen the thirst for the beautiful, the good, the just.”

Ilya Erenburg, Soviet writer and public figure.

According to him, at the beginning of the war, many Red Army soldiers did not feel hatred for enemies, respected the Germans for the "high culture" of life, expressed confidence that German workers and peasants were sent under arms, who were just waiting for the opportunity to turn their weapons against their commanders.

« It's time to dispel the illusion. We understood that the Germans are not people. From now on, the word "German" is the worst curse for us. …If you haven't killed at least one German in a day, your day is gone. If you think that your neighbor will kill a German for you, you have not understood the threat. If you don't kill the German, the German will kill you. …Don't count the days. Don't count miles. Count one thing: the Germans you killed. Kill the German! - this is asked by the old woman-mother. Kill the German! This is a child begging you. Kill the German! - it screams native land. Don't miss. Do not miss. Kill!"

Artists Alexei Kokorekin "Beat the fascist reptile", 1941.

The word "fascist" has become synonymous with an inhuman killing machine, a soulless monster, a rapist, a cold-blooded killer, a pervert. Bad news from the occupied territories only reinforced this image. Fascists are depicted as huge, scary and ugly, towering over the corpses of the innocently killed, pointing weapons at mother and child.

It is not surprising that the heroes of military posters do not kill, but destroy such an enemy, sometimes destroy with their bare hands - professional assassins armed to the teeth.

The defeat of the fascist German armies near Moscow marked the beginning of a turn in military success in favor of the Soviet Union.

The war turned out to be protracted, not lightning fast. The grand battle of Stalingrad, which has no analogues in world history, finally secured the strategic superiority for us, conditions were created for the Red Army to go on the general offensive. The mass expulsion of the enemy from Soviet territory, about which the posters of the first days of the war were repeated, has become a reality.

Artists Nikolai Zhukov and Viktor Klimashin "Defend Moscow", 1941.

Artists Nikolai Zhukov and Viktor Klimashin "Defend Moscow", 1941.

After the counter-offensive near Moscow and Stalingrad, the soldiers realized their strength, unity and the sacred nature of their mission. Many posters are dedicated to these great battles, as well as the Battle of Kursk, where the enemy is depicted as a caricature, ridiculed by his predatory pressure, which ended in destruction.

Artist Vladimir Serov, 1941.

Artist Irakli Toidze "Defend the Caucasus", 1942.

Artist Victor Denis (Denisov) "Stalingrad", 1942.

Artist Anatoly Kazantsev "Do not give the enemy a single inch of our land (I. Stalin)", 1943.

Artist Victor Denis (Denisov) "The broom of the Red Army, the evil spirits will sweep to the ground!", 1943.

The miracles of heroism shown by citizens in the rear were also reflected in poster plots: one of the most frequent heroines is a woman who replaced men at a machine tool or driving a tractor. The posters reminded us that the common victory is also created by heroic work in the rear.

Artist unknown, 194.

A poster in those days is also needed by those who live in the occupied territories, where the content of the posters is passed from mouth to mouth. According to the memoirs of veterans, in the occupied areas, patriots pasted panels of “TASS Windows” on fences, sheds, and houses where the Germans stood. The population, deprived of Soviet radio, newspapers, learned the truth about the war from these leaflets that appeared from nowhere ...

“Windows TASS” are propaganda political posters produced by the Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union (TASS) during the Great Patriotic War of 1941–1945. This is an original form of agitation-mass art. Sharp, intelligible satirical posters with short, easy-to-remember poetic texts exposed the enemies of the Fatherland.

Okna TASS, produced since July 27, 1941, was a formidable ideological weapon, it was not for nothing that Propaganda Minister Goebbels sentenced in absentia to death everyone who was involved in their release:
“As soon as Moscow is taken, everyone who worked at the TASS Windows will hang from lampposts.”

More than 130 artists and 80 poets worked at Okny TASS. The main artists were Kukryniksy, Mikhail Cheremnykh, Pyotr Shukhmin, Nikolai Radlov, Alexander Daineka and others. Poets: Demyan Bedny, Alexander Zharov, Vasily Lebedev-Kumach, Samuil Marshak, poems by the late Mayakovsky were used.

In a single patriotic impulse, people of various professions worked in the workshop: sculptors, artists, painters, theater artists, graphic artists, art critics. The team of artists "Windows TASS" worked in three shifts. For all the time of the war in the workshop, the light never goes out.

The Political Directorate of the Red Army made small leaflets of the most popular TASS Windows with texts in German. These leaflets were thrown into the territories occupied by the Nazis, and distributed by partisans. The texts typed in German indicated that the leaflet could serve as a pass for surrender for German soldiers and officers.

The image of the enemy ceases to inspire horror, posters call to reach his lair and crush there, to liberate not only your home, but also Europe. The heroic popular struggle is the main theme of the military poster of this stage of the war; already in 1942, Soviet artists caught the still distant theme of victory, creating canvases with the slogan “Forward! To the west!".

It becomes obvious that Soviet propaganda is much more effective than Nazi propaganda, for example, during the Battle of Stalingrad, the Red Army used original methods of psychological pressure on the enemy - the monotonous beat of a metronome transmitted through loudspeakers, which was interrupted every seven beats by a comment in German: “Every seven seconds a German soldier dies at the front". This had a demoralizing effect on the German soldiers.

Warrior-defender, warrior-liberator - such is the hero of the poster of 1944-1945.

The enemy appears small and vile, it is such a predatory reptile that can still bite, but is no longer capable of causing serious harm. The main thing is to finally destroy it in order to finally return home, to the family, to a peaceful life, to the restoration of destroyed cities. But before that, Europe must be liberated and rebuffed by imperialist Japan, on which the Soviet Union, without waiting for an attack, itself declared war in 1945.

Artist Pyotr Magnushevsky “Formidable bayonets are getting closer…”, 1944.

Reproduction of the poster "The Red Army's step is menacing! The enemy will be destroyed in the lair!", artist Viktor Nikolayevich Denis, 1945

Reproduction of the poster "Forward! Victory is near!". 1944 Artist Nina Vatolina.

“Let's get to Berlin!”, “Glory to the Red Army!” posters rejoice. The defeat of the enemy is already close, the time requires life-affirming works from artists, bringing closer the meeting of the liberators with the liberated cities and villages, with their families.

The prototype of the hero of the poster "Let's get to Berlin" was a real soldier - sniper Vasily Golosov. Golosov himself did not return from the war, but his open, joyful, kind face lives on on the poster to this day.

Posters become an expression of people's love, pride for the country, for the people who gave birth to and raised such heroes. The faces of the soldiers are beautiful, happy and very tired.

Artist Leonid Golovanov "Homeland, Meet the Heroes!", 1945.

Artist Leonid Golovanov "Glory to the Red Army!", 1945.

Artist Maria Nesterova-Berzina “They Waited”, 1945.

Artist Viktor Ivanov "You gave us life back!", 1943.

Artist Nina Vatolina "With Victory!", 1945.

Artist Viktor Klimashin "Glory to the victorious warrior!", 1945.

The war with Germany did not officially end in 1945. Having accepted the surrender of the German command, the Soviet Union did not sign peace with Germany, only on January 25, 1955, the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR issued a decree "On the termination of the state of war between the Soviet Union and Germany", thereby legally formalizing the end of hostilities.

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Soldiers fought on the fronts, partisans and scouts fought in the occupied territory, and home front workers assembled tanks. Propagandists and artists turned pencils and brushes into weapons. The main task of the poster was to strengthen the faith of the Soviet people in victory. The first poster thesis (now it would be called a slogan) was a phrase from Molotov's speech on June 22, 1941: "Our cause is just, the enemy will be defeated, victory will be ours." One of the main characters of the military poster was the image of a woman - mother, motherland, girlfriend, wife. She worked in the rear at the factory, harvested, waited and believed.

“We will mercilessly defeat and destroy the enemy”, Kukryniksy, 1941

The first military poster, pasted on the walls of houses on June 23, was a sheet by the Kukryniksy artists, depicting Hitler, who treacherously broke the non-aggression pact between the USSR and Germany. (“Kukryniksy” are three artists, the name of the team is made up of the initial letters of the names Kupriyanov and Krylov, and the name and first letter of the surname of Nikolai Sokolov).

“The motherland is calling!”, Irakli Toidze, 1941

The idea of ​​creating the image of a mother calling for help from her sons arose by chance. Hearing the first message from the Soviet Information Bureau about the attack of fascist Germany on the USSR, Toidze's wife ran into his studio shouting "War!" Struck by the expression on her face, the artist ordered his wife to freeze and immediately began to sketch the future masterpiece. The influence of this work and the song "Holy War" on people was much stronger than the conversations of political officers.

"Be a hero!", Viktor Koretsky, 1941

The slogan of the poster became prophetic: millions of people stood up for the Fatherland and defended their freedom and independence. In June 1941, Koretsky created the composition "Be a Hero!". The poster, enlarged several times, was installed along the streets of Moscow, along which columns of mobilized residents of the city passed in the first weeks of the war. In August of this year, the postage stamp "Be a Hero!" Both on the stamp and on the poster, the infantryman is depicted in a pre-war SSH-36 helmet. In the days of the war, helmets were of a different form.

“Let's have more tanks…”, Lazar Lissitzky, 1941

A wonderful work by the outstanding avant-garde artist, illustrator Lazar Lissitzky. Poster “Let's have more tanks... Everything for the front! All for victory! was printed in thousands of copies a few days before the death of the artist. Lissitzky died on December 30, 1941, and the slogan "Everything for the front!" throughout the war was the main principle of the people who remained in the rear.

"Warrior of the Red Army, save!", Viktor Koretsky, 1942

A woman, clutching a child to herself, is ready with her breasts, with her life, to protect her daughter from the bloody bayonet of a fascist rifle. One of the most emotionally powerful posters was published in 14 million copies. The front-line soldiers saw in this angry, rebellious woman their mother, wife, sister, and in the frightened defenseless girl - their daughter, sister, blood-drenched Motherland, her future.

"Don't talk!", Nina Vatolina, 1941

In June 1941, the artist Vatolina was offered to graphically draw Marshak's famous lines: “Be alert! On days like these, the walls eavesdrop. Not far from chatter and gossip to treason, ”and after a couple of days the image was found. The model for the work was a neighbor, with whom the artist often stood in the same line at the bakery. The stern face of an unknown woman became for many years one of the main symbols of the fortress country, located in the ring of fronts.

“All hope is on you, red warrior!”, Ivanov, Burova, 1942

The theme of revenge on the invaders becomes the leading one in the work of poster artists at the first stage of the war. Instead of collective heroic images, faces resembling specific people come to the fore - your girlfriend, your child, your mother. Revenge, release, save. The Red Army retreated, and the women and children who remained in the territory occupied by the enemy silently cried out from the posters.

"Avenge the grief of the people!", Viktor Ivanov, 1942

The poster is accompanied by poems by Vera Inber “Beat the enemy!”, after reading which, perhaps, no words are needed anymore ...

Beat the enemy to make him weak,

To choke on blood

So that your blow is equal in strength

All my motherly love!

"Fighter of the Red Army! You will not give your beloved to shame”, Fedor Antonov, 1942

The enemy was approaching the Volga, a huge territory was occupied, where hundreds of thousands of civilians lived. The heroes of the artists were women and children. The posters showed misfortune and suffering, calling on the warrior to take revenge and help those who are unable to help themselves. Antonov addressed the fighters on behalf of their wives and sisters with a placard "... You will not give your beloved to the shame and dishonor of the Nazi soldiers."

"My son! You see my share...”, Antonov, 1942

This work has become a symbol of people's suffering. Maybe mother, maybe an exhausted, bloodless Motherland - an elderly woman with a bundle in her hands, who leaves the burnt village. She seemed to stop for a second, mournfully lamenting, she asks for the help of her son.

“Warrior, answer the Motherland with victory!”, Dementy Shmarinov, 1942

The artist very simply revealed the main theme: the Motherland grows bread and puts the most perfect weapon into the hands of a soldier. A woman who assembled a machine gun and gathered ripe ears of corn. The red dress of the color of the red banner confidently leads to victory. The fighters must win, and the home front workers must give more and more weapons.

"A tractor in the field is like a tank in battle", Olga Burova, 1942

Bright optimistic colors of the poster assure - there will be bread, victory is not far off. Your women believe in you. There is an air battle in the distance, an echelon with fighters passes, but faithful friends do their job, contributing to the cause of victory.

“Red Cross Vigilantes! We will not leave on the battlefield either the wounded or his weapons, Viktor Koretsky, 1942

Here the woman is an equal fighter, a nurse and a savior.

“We drink the water of our native Dnieper…”, Viktor Ivanov, 1943

After the victory in the Battle of Stalingrad, it was obvious that the advantage was on the side of the Red Army. Artists were now required to create posters that would show the meeting of the liberators of Soviet cities and villages. The successful forcing of the Dnieper could not remain aloof from the artists.

"Glory to the liberators of Ukraine!", Dementy Shmarinov, 1943

The crossing of the Dnieper and the liberation of Kyiv is one of the glorious pages in the history of the Great Patriotic War. Mass heroism was adequately appreciated, and 2438 people were awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union. For crossing the Dnieper and other rivers, for the feats accomplished in subsequent years, another 56 people received the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.

“Join the ranks of front-line girlfriends ...”, Viktor Koretsky, VeraGitsevich, 1943

The front needed reinforcements and female forces.

"You gave us life back"Viktor Ivanov, 1944

This is how a soldier of the Red Army was greeted - as a native, as a liberator. The woman, without restraining a burst of gratitude, hugs an unfamiliar soldier.

"Europe will be free!", Viktor Koretsky, 1944

By the summer of 1944, it became clear that the USSR could not only expel the enemy from its own land, but also liberate the peoples of Europe and complete the defeat of the Nazi army. After the opening of the Second Front, the theme of the joint struggle of the Soviet Union, Great Britain and the United States for the liberation of all of Europe from the "brown plague" became relevant.

“We have one sight - Berlin!”, Viktor Koretsky, 1945

There is very little left. The goal is close. No wonder a woman appears on the poster next to the soldier - as a promise that they will soon be able to see each other.

“We reached Berlin”, Leonid Golovanov, 1945

Here is the long-awaited victory... The posters of the spring of 1945 breathe spring, peace, the Great Victory! Behind the hero's back is a poster by Leonid Golovanov "Let's get to Berlin!", published in 1944, with the same main character, but so far without an order.

“They Waited”, Maria Nesterova-Berzina, 1945

Front-line soldiers returned home with the consciousness of their own dignity of people who had done their duty. Now the former soldier will have to restore the economy and establish a peaceful life.

The father of the hero-son met,

and the wife embraced the husband,

and children look with admiration

for military medals.