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A Soviet school book for learning English.

Lesson 31.

WE LOVE OUR MOTHER COUNTRY

We are Soviet children. We live in the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union is a great country.

The Soviet Union is our Mother country.

We love our Great Mother country.

We love our Great Leader Comrade Stalin!

Long live the Soviet Union!
Long live Great Leader Comrade Stalin!

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Mikhail Kalashnikov Inventor of AK-47

Russian general, invertor and military engineer most famous for developing AK-47 assault rifle and its improvements, the AKM and AK-74, as well as the PK machine gun and RPK light machine gun.

Soviet general whose design for a cheap and reliable assault rifle transformed the nature of conflict round the world.

Kalashnikov was, according to himself, a self-taught tinkerer who combined innate mechanical skills with the study of weaponry to design arms that achieved battlefield ubiquity.

Even though Kalashnikov felt sorrow at the weapons' uncontrolled distribution, he took pride in his inventions and in their reputation for reliability, emphasizing that his rifle is "a weapon of defense" and "not a weapon for offense".

Kalashnikov was born in Kurya, Altai Governorate, Russian SFSR, now Altai Krai, Russia, as the seventeenth child of the 19 children of Aleksandra Frolovna Kalashnikova (née Kaverina) and Timofey Aleksandrovich Kalashnikov, who were peasants.

After a prolonged illness Kalashnikov was hospitalized on 17 November 2013, in an Udmurtian medical facility in Izhevsk, the capital of Udmurtia and where he lived. He died 23 December 2013, at age 94 from gastric hemorrhage.

In January 2014 a letter that Kalashnikov wrote six months before his death to the leader of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill, was published by the Russian daily newspaper Izvestia. In the letter he stated that he was suffering "spiritual pain" about whether he was responsible for the deaths caused by the weapons he created.Translated from the published letter he states, "I keep having the same unsolved question: if my rifle claimed people's lives, then can it be that I... a Christian and an Orthodox believer, was to blame for their deaths?"

The patriarch wrote back, thanked Kalashnikov, and said that he "was an example of patriotism and a correct attitude toward the country". Kirill added about the design responsibility for the deaths by the rifle, "the church has a well-defined position when the weapon is defense of the Motherland, the Church supports its creators and the military, which use it."
                                                                                                            ( Colorized by Marina Amaral )

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Head of Stalin

The decapitated head of Joseph Stalin statue during the Hungarian Revolution of 1956.

The Hungarian Revolution of 1956 or the Hungarian Uprising of 1956 (Hungarian: 1956-os forradalom or 1956-os felkelés) was a nationwide revolt against the government of the Hungarian People's Republic and its Soviet-imposed policies, lasting from 23 October until 10 November 1956. Though leaderless when it first began, it was the first major threat to Soviet control since the USSR's forces drove Nazi Germany from its territory at the end of World War II.

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Lenin Son Fotoğrafı

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Grigori Rasputin

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Red Army Soldier Shot German soldiers in Stalingrad

A Red Army Soldier standing next to dead German soldiers while getting ready to shoot a flare, Stalingrad.

Stalingrad was one of the most bloody war in the history and World War 2

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Feeding Polar Bears from a Tank 1950

Photo taken during a routine military expedition in Chukchi Peninsula, Soviet Union. It isn’t sure if the Chukchi Peninsula has more people or white bears. The climate is very severe and sometimes weather can be so fierce in winter that the temperature falls 40 C degrees below zero (-40 Fahrenheit) so that poor white bears and their cubs start starving and freezing.

Soviet soldiers and bears

The soldiers, who served on the Army District of Chukchi Peninsula, didn’t turn their backs on the poor and starving animals and started to feed them every now and then. Of course you do not have such big amounts of meat at home to feed several white bears. And soldiers decided to feed the bears up with what they had in abundance – tins, or to be more exact, condensed milk.

Soviet soldiers feed bear 1950

Soldiers would open such a tin with a tin-opener and then give the can to the bear who licked all the milk from tin and then feed her little bears with it. Those blue and white tins of condensed milk were the winter dessert staple of every Soviet kid. The condensed milk (called in Russian: sgushchennoye moloko) had indeterminately long shelf life and there was always plenty of it. It was a common dessert in the army too. It isn’t surprised to see it given away to bears, because unlike some stuff that was rationed the condensed milk in USSR was available in unlimited amounts.

The tracked vehicle you see on the photo is a GT-SM GAZ-34036, fully amphibious. This vehicle was widely employed by the Soviet Military. It was an over-snow vehicle designed for a variety of roles, but primarily as a general cargo/troop carrier and light artillery/heavy mortar tractor. The GT-S is also capable of traversing shallow swamp areas. The layout is conventional, with an engine compartment at the front, a cab behind that, and the cargo/troop section behind the cab. Towing capacity of the GT-S is 2 tons. ( source : rarehistoricalphotos )

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Listening aircraft with a huge acoustic locator

Finland had three major battles during World War II. The first two were against the Soviet Union. The last battle was against Germany, which was allied.

The Finnish soldiers were using acoustic locator to find the soviets aircrafts.

Acoustic location is the science of using sound to determine the distance and direction of its source or reflector. Location can be done actively or passively, and can take place in gases (such as the atmosphere), liquids (such as water), and in solids (such as in the earth).

As World War II neared, radar began to become a credible alternative to the sound location of aircraft. For typical aircraft speeds of that time, sound location only gave a few minutes of warning. The acoustic location stations were left in operation as a backup to radar, as exemplified during the Battle of Britain. Today, the abandoned sites are still in existence and are readily accessible.
After World War II, sound ranging played no further role in anti-aircraft operations ( source wiki )

They looking out toward approaching aircraft with binoculars and listening with a huge acoustic locator.

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Erika Szeles carries sub-machine gun in Budapest during the 1956 Hungarian Revolution

The Hungarian Revolution is a popular movement initiated against the Stalinist ruler backed by the Soviet Union in Hungary in 1956.

Mátyás Rákosi, known for his commitment to Moscow and the Prime Minister of the Hungarian Workers' Party in 1952, left his job in Imre Nagi in July 1953 shortly after the death of the USSR leader Stalin. Nagy, who softened the political pressure and embarked on some economic reforms, lost his support of Moscow and took part in office in the spring of 1955. Although Rákosi stopped the reformer development by obtaining his former position, in July 1956 this time he was removed from all his posts. On the basis of this position of Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev lies the intention of correcting relations with Yugoslav leader Tito, who had previously been raving with Rákosi. Ernő Gerő, who is based in Rákosi, explained that the reformist line-up will not be conceded as the first job.

Hungarian Revolution 1956

But the steps taken during the Nagy era have strengthened the demand for change between the campaign against Stalin in the USSR and the developments in Poland. On October 23, 1956 in Budapest, the students also received wide support from the march he had organized to file a petition with the authorities. As Gero fired at the crowd over the harsh democracy, the peaceful demonstrations turned into an uprising. With the participation of the army units in the rebellion, the people began to arm themselves. Local councils appeared in almost every city in the country. The villagers were attempting to occupy the expropriated land. The bureaucracy and law enforcement began to disperse rapidly. The sacrifices that Nagy, once again in power, overpowered, led to the revival of political parties in the past and almost to the power. The church has gotten old.

Erika Szeles  armed with a PPSh-42 during the Hungarian Revolution

While Soviet troops were withdrawing from Hungary, Nagy announced his decision to leave the Warsaw Pact on November 1, demanding the protection of large states through the United Nations. The Soviet troops, backed up by this development, were invaded by Budapest; While Nagy took refuge in Yugoslavia's embassy in Budapest, most of the reformist leaders were arrested. At the same time, János Kádár, who served in the Nagy government, announced that a new government had been formed with a program for reforms after the counter-revolution was suppressed. The armed resistance against the Soviet troops was broken in a night. It took a few weeks for the general strike launched by the workers to end. After the arrest, large-scale detentions took place. In the meantime, about 150 thousand Hungarians fled abroad.

After that, Time magazine selected the Hungarian people in 1956 as "Man of the Year" as "Hungarian Freedom Warriors".

Erika Kornelia Szeles

Erika Kornelia is the iconic person of this Revolution with her famous picture. The picture was taken by Danish photographer  Vagn Hansen.

Born in Budapest on January 6, 1941, came from a Jewish Communist family. Erika joined the uprising with an older friend after Soviet forces invaded Hungary.During a resistance operation, Erika was mortally wounded in a street fight with Soviet soldiers on November 8th 1956 and died on the spot.

Erika Szeles was a young soldier and nurse in the Hungarian Revo

Erika's image graced the covers of several Euopean magazines and she became an international symbol of the revolution.

During a resistance operation, Erika was mortally wounded in a street fight with Soviet soldiers on November 8th 1956 and died on the spot.

Erika Kornelia Szeles grave.

Erika was buried on November 14th 1956 at Kerepesi Churchyard in Budapest. The grave number is 21/1/24, and the gravestone still exists today.

In 2006 in the 60th anniversary of Revolution, her picture was there.

Anniversary of Revolution Hungarian

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Soviet Soldier

Fall of Hitler..

Sovyet soldier has Hitler's (statue) head, 1945 World War II

The area beyond the Brandenburg Gate was controlled by the Soviets for nearly 40 years after World War II.

Brandenburg Gate Berlin 1945

After the war, Berlin was like a post-apocalyptic world. One of the largest and most modern cities in Europe has almost become a ruin. There were heaps of rubble everywhere. All architectural structures in cities like Schlüter, Knobelsdorf, Schadow and Schinkel were destroyed. Palaces, museums, churches, monuments and cultural sites were bombed.

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