The situation in the world and in the USSR before World War II (1930-1941)

Kommunar combines move across Red Square on May 1, 1930. Nazi stormtrooper parades in Berlin in the early 1930s.

A Japanese general is greeted at an airfield after the invasion of Manchuria in 1931. The face of an Abyssinian who suffered as a result of Italian aggression in 1935. Mussolini speaks from the podium at a rally in Rome.

Hitler speaks from the podium.

Pasechnik Mikheyev speaks at a rally to see off young people to the army.

Faces of rally participants.

Mikheyev hugs his son goodbye.

Rally participants with a banner with a slogan in honor of the tank crew of the Mikheyev brothers.

Farewell to conscripts at the train station.

Far Eastern landscape.

BT tanks during exercises.

The crew of the Mikheyev brothers leave the tank and line up in front of it.

The Mikheyev brothers in formation.

The face of Mikheyev Sr..

T-26 tanks on parade.

Combat actions at Lake Khasan in August 1938. Commander of the 1st Far Eastern Army V.K. Blucher speaks from the rostrum.

Red Army soldiers salute Blucher.

A Red Army soldier with a rifle and binoculars on patrol, full-length (panorama from bottom to top).

The face of a Red Army soldier.

Combat actions against the Japanese aggressors in the Khalkhin-Gol River area in the summer of 1939. Soviet artillery fires at the enemy.

Soviet cavalry attack.

Tanks and infantry go on the attack.

Corpses of Japanese soldiers in a trench.

Japanese generals at an observation post.

Japanese soldiers from the burial team load the corpses of killed soldiers and officers into trucks.

A Soviet military traffic controller indicates the direction of travel for a truck with the corpses of Japanese soldiers.

Parade of Wehrmacht units.

Photographs of the streets of Vienna with swastika flags hanging from buildings.

British Prime Minister Chamberlain returns greetings near an airplane.

Hitler greets Chamberlain on the steps of the palace in Munich in 1938. Mussolini, Hitler, and Goering after the signing of the Munich Agreement.

German troops cross the border of Czechoslovakia.

Faces of Prague residents.

Wehrmacht units march through the streets of Prague in 1939. Faces of women greeting the German army.

Nazi stormtroopers with standards on parade.

French refugees flee an air raid.

A German plane attacks a column of refugees in 1940. German troops march along the Champs-Élysées in Paris on June 14, 1940. A mounted border guard on patrol.

Soviet fighters take off.

Red Army infantry during exercises.

Red Army Air Force aircraft provide air support to the infantry during maneuvers.

Commanders of various branches of the Red Army during exercises.

Pilots discuss a flight mission.

New means of communication in the Red Army.

Anti-aircraft gun in position.

TB-3 heavy bombers with troops on board in flight.

Airborne assault during exercises.

Face of K.E. Voroshilov.

Exercises of the Red Army tank forces, tanks overcoming water obstacles.

T-34 tanks overcome anti-tank fortifications.

Troops of various branches of the armed forces during a march and exercises (panorama, from above).

Ships on a combat mission.

Launching a torpedo from an onboard apparatus.

View of a part of the deck of a warship (from above).

Building of the Frunze Military Academy.

Academy students during practical and theoretical classes.

Lesson on communications equipment.

Classes on tank driving simulators and flight simulators.

Faces of pilots.

Pilots during a theoretical lesson on piloting.

Red Army servicemen reading newspapers.

Tankers at propaganda stands at the training ground.

Conducting political information in the field.

Morning physical exercises at the summer camp of one of the Red Army units.

Morning exercises on the deck of a warship.

Performing gymnastics exercises on the horizontal bar.

Personnel engage in various sports.

A field of ripening wheat (panorama).

Combine harvesters, the face of combine operator Mikheyev.

Girls gather hay with pitchforks.

Threshed grain spills out of the combine sleeve.

Production processes in factory workshops.

Faces of steelworkers.

Girls with skipping ropes on a park path.

Faces of children playing.

A shell exploding.

Planes fly over flags with swastikas.

Bombs falling on Soviet soil on June 22, 1941. Nazi aviation in the sky.

Bomb explosions, burning Soviet cities, the face of a woman cursing the German occupiers.

A view of a rally at one of the industrial enterprises in the first days of the Great Patriotic War.