USSR after the end of the Great Patriotic War (1945-1950)

A panorama of a former battlefield.

The field is littered with wrecked military equipment.

The bodies of dead German soldiers lie scattered across the ground.

A downed plane with a bent propeller lies there.

People are returning to liberated villages.

Women and children are walking along the roads.

People are crying in the ashes of their homes.

A family walks down a village street after meeting a soldier returning from the war.

The woman runs to her husband, who has returned, hugs him, and kisses him.

A soldier carrying a suitcase walks past the villagers.

Parents greet their sons.

Men in a village bathhouse.

A barber gives a man a haircut.

Women carrying flowers and food ride in a cart.

Dressed people gather around large tables laden with treats.

A woman carries a bowl of apples.

A girl offers an apple to a young man returning from the war.

A demobilized soldier and a sailor are floating down the river in a boat.

The chimneys of burnt-out houses.

People among the ruins of their homes.

The funerals of the dead.

The faces of widows.

A woman playing the accordion.

A man with a tambourine.

Smiling girls.

Girls dancing in pairs.

Village dances.

An elderly woman with children at a spinning wheel.

A woman whitewashing the wall of a house.

A room in a village house.

Photographs of soldiers on a dresser among flowers.

A girl sitting on the roof.

Damaged military equipment in the fields - tanks, guns, trucks, shell casings.

Ice drift on the river.

Cars drive along the streets of Moscow.

Pedestrians cross the road.

A view of the Garden Ring, a trolleybus passes by.

People walk past storefronts.

A ruined village.

An elderly man is building a hut.

A man and a woman are sitting at an open-air table.

A man walks behind a plow.

Women drive a cow and plow the land.