Victory day. Four old photos

Yuri Pautov

On the 9 of May we will be celebrating the Victory Day.
There will be parade on Red Square.
I'd like to share with you some photos
1

A traffic-controller. 1 of May is written. Photo must be taken in Germany
2

The second word from the top is the city I live in - Voronezh -2107 km and only 142 to Berlin.
3

captive Nazi
4

captured field marshal Paulus

Hope these were interesting to you....

BTW my father took part in World War II. In 1941 he was 26. He didnt like to tell stories about the war...
HOPE this will never ever happen.

Spasibo,
Yuri

adbsgicom

Thanks for sharing these. I had to chuckle, even here you found one with a pretty young lady.

Yuri Pautov

Congratulations on Victory day!
Wish you all good health!
Spasibo,
Yuri

Mike J

I love old historical photos. Thanks for sharing these.

kris10jo

wow. thank you for sharing these.

ABCL

adbsgicom wrote: »

Thanks for sharing these. I had to chuckle, even here you found one with a pretty young lady.

She won't be so young now

Fantastic pictures, pieces of history.

Jwar

Thanks Yuri for sharing these photos from your side of the world.

That last one is a good one, putting a face to the evilness.

imagesofhim

Yuri--thank you so much for sharing these images! Yet another reminder that what we do is IMPORTANT!!!!

Ed911

Yuri,

You didn't say where the photos came from. Did they belong to your father? Nice images...especially the traffic controller. A stark reminder of what can happen if there are no checks and balances.

Like you, Yuri, I too hoped something like this never would never happen again...but then I stop and remember Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge, and the 1.7 to 2.5 million estimated people killed in Cambodia as he and his political party cleansed the country of the unwanted and dangerous. And, then there was the slaughter of half a million Tutsis in Rwanda in 1994 and thousands of prominent Hutu's for opposing the slaughter, by the ruling Hutu regime. And then, more recently, the janjaweed...killers on horse back...slaughtering an estimated 200 to 400 thousand civilians in the Darfur region of Sudan from 2001 to 2005...

So, I think the attrocities commited against the Jews and mankind in general during the second world war are still around and doing well in parts of the third world, where there are few reporters and even less concern in the industrialized western world.

Just my two cents...didn't mean to hijack the thread. Just post a comment.