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Before and after the Great Patriotic War: the life of Soviet people

TASS photographs of the 1930s and 1940s showing how the life of Soviet people changed after the Great Patriotic War

Today Russia marks 75 years since Nazi troops attacked the Soviet Union. On June 22, 1941, Nazi Germany launched Operation Barbarossa, a massive invasion of the Soviet Union. The Great Patriotic War lasted 3 years, 10 months, 2 weeks and 3 days. Photographs of the 1930s and 1940s showing how the life of Soviet people changed after the Great Patriotic War - in this project by TASS.

May Day demonstration in Moscow's Red Square/Women crying over their dead sons and brothers, Rostov-on-Don

Festivities in a village/Starye Kuznetsy village after the invasion of fascists

A view of the Moskow River and the Gorky Park Embankment/An air defense battery guarding the sky at Moscow's Gorky Park 

Sailors greet members of Ivan Papanin's expedition near Kronshtadt/Ships of the North Fleet break up a raid of Nazi warplanes 

Stalingrad. A view of the Square of the Fallen Warriors/An aerial view of the city during the Battle of Stalingrad