A 1924 illustration depicts a 1921 Red Army soldier.
“LONG LIVE OUR VICTORY!” — A 1945 stamp marks the Soviet victory in World War II, aka the Great Patriotic War.
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Victory Day in the Soviet Union. May 9, 1982.
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Victory Day in Moscow, 2007.
Medal man.
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“OUR ARMY, OUR PROTECTORS” (Наша Армія, наші хранителі) by Maria Primachenko, 1978.
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The first victory day parade in Red Square, Moscow, 1945.
The Great Patriotic War ends, and the Cold War begins.
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Chechen World War II veterans during celebrations on the 66th anniversary of the Soviet victory in the Great Patriotic War.
In a few gloriously intoned words, Laurence Olivier describes the Soviet military machine during World War II, in the classic BBC documentary series World at War.
May Day Parade, 1975, by Boris Mikhailov (Ukrainian, born 1938). Gelatin silver print with applied color, from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Happy May Day! Long Live the Comintern!
A conscript soldier on duty in Chechnya, Russia, 1992. Photo by Thomas Dworzak.
Memorial for a dead Russian soldier, 2000, near the town of Andi in Dagestan along the Chechen border. Photo by Thomas Dworzak/Magnum.
Chechnya, June 1995. Photographer Thomas Dworzak captures a moment during the First Chechen War: “An Elderly Chechen who participated in the liberation of Berlin during World War II and who was also deported to Central Asia by Stalin, watches a Russian Armoured Personnel Carrier drive through his village.”
