WWII Russian body of work...

M38A1

Many of you know I'm part of a group of folks who are military history buffs of sorts. One of them forwarded me this link containing a body of work from the Russian army perspective during WWII. I found the images both singularly, and as a body of work, to be quite intriguing.

Are they stellar images or not? And if so, is it due to composition, B&W, story, nostalgia or some other factor?

Not for the faint of heart for a few, yet history is what it is and this isn't sugar-coated.

An .ru extension which none of my virus alerts went off on as well.

http://postomania.ru/post172487301/


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Richard

Thanks for the link, Scott. I haven't had time to look very carefully yet and will get back to it later, but it looks like there's some fine stuff here.

I'd suggest using the following link, which will translate the Russian to English (more or less ) and show the same images:
http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fpostomania.ru%2Fpost172487301%2F

zoomer

Great stuff, thanks for sharing the link.

torags

Thanks for sharing the link.

For those that scroll down the shots, they will see a bombed out Peterhof castle.

Here are shots taken in 2009. A little different.. eh?

Nmahooch

Terrific. Thanks for the translated link- I didnt see it @ 1st. I also like the before and after shots of the castle.

Sam

Great imagery. Coveys the desolation, horror, hopelessness, and man's inhumanity to man.

Sam.