Meeting at the Elbe: Lt. William Robertson (U.S. Army) and Lt. Alexander...
April 25, 1945, the day American troops and the troops of the First Ukrainian Front met at the Elbe River, near Torgau in Germany is known as the Elbe Day. The most iconic photo of that grand event...
View ArticleKyiv’s Independence Square (Maidan) as seen by John Steinbeck after WW2, 1946
“We tried to read a little of the plane, and promptly went to sleep. And when we were awakened, we were over the flat grainlands of the Ukraine, as flat as our Middle West, and almost as fruitful. The...
View ArticleHitler and Keitel at “Werwolf” headquarters near Vinnitsa, Ukraine, 1942
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View ArticleAdolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini visit their troops in Ukraine
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Ukrainian-American Sgt. Michael Strank was 1 of 6 Marines who raised flag on...
” Michael Strank (November 10, 1919 – March 1, 1945) was a United States Marine Corps sergeant who was killed in action during the Battle of Iwo Jima in World War II. He was one of the six Marines who...
View ArticleUkrainian Alexei Berest hoists Victory Banner over Reichstag on May 01, 1945
” On 30 April 1945, after long days of street combat in Berlin, the 150th Division attacked the Reichstag. On 1 May, at about 03:00, Berest and two scouts – Meliton Kantaria and Mikhail Yegorov –...
View ArticleGerman sentry over Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra/ Cave Monastery in September, 1941
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View ArticleIvan Kozhedub, a Ukrainian, was the highest scoring Allied and Soviet fighter...
Unfortunately, after World War II, he remained in the military and went on to command the 324th Fighter Aviation Division during Soviet operations in the Korean War. (Wikipedia) It is the wise for the...
View ArticleElbe Day iconic photo: American Robertson and Ukrainian Silvashko
April 25, 1945, the day American troops and the troops of the First Ukrainian Front met at the Elbe River, near Torgau in Germany is known as Elbe Day. The most iconic photo of that grand event...
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Invading Ukraine in 2014, Moscow used the same excuse as when invading Poland...
On this day in 1939, Russia, according to the secret plan with Nazi Germany, invaded Poland. As can be seen, Stalin used the same excuse as Putin did when invading Ukraine in 2014. On September 22,...
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