Liberation of Europe and Victory (1944-1945)

Stalin I.V., Kalinin M.I., Voroshilov K.E. walk through the Kremlin to the parade.

View of Red Square during the parade (top).

USSR leaders on the mausoleum tribune.

Heavy artillery systems at the parade on Red Square, Molotov's face V.M. European cityscapes outside the train car window.

View of the Brandenburg Gate during the fighting in Berlin in April-May 1945. Soviet troops fight on the streets of Berlin.

Artillery and mortars fire at the enemy.

A medical orderly bandages a wounded tanker.

A medical orderly leads a wounded Red Army soldier to the rear.

A medical orderly wipes the face of a wounded soldier.

The bridge over the Elbe.

Soviet soldiers and officers cross the river on a pontoon.

Soviet troops during street fighting.

The entry of Soviet troops into the liberated cities of Europe.

Allied landing craft sailing through the English Channel in 1944. Allied landing on the coast of France.

A column of German prisoners passes the firing position of a rocket launcher battery firing at the Reichstag.

A view of the burning dome of the Reichstag.

Residents of a European city greet Soviet soldiers-liberators.

A meeting of victorious soldiers in Leningrad, Leningraders presenting bouquets of flowers to soldiers and officers.

Red Army units march along Nevsky Prospect, Leningraders greeting them.

People on the roof of a building.

Faces of soldiers and officers.

Residents of one of the cities greet Soviet soldiers, throwing them flowers.

A tanker accepts bread and salt from local residents.

Captured female guards of a Nazi concentration camp stand in formation with their heads bowed.

Captured camp guards.

Faces of the commission investigating Nazi crimes.

Faces of the guards.

Two captured guards lie by the wheel of a US Army bus.

Bodies of female prisoners of a concentration camp, piled up.

A British military cameraman films local residents who witnessed Nazi crimes.

Captured guards and wardens remove the bodies of murdered prisoners from a truck and carry them to a burial pit in a mass grave.

A British officer, sitting in a car radio, speaks into a microphone.

One of the witnesses gives an interview about Nazi crimes, the face of the witness.

British officers and soldiers speak in front of a movie camera.

A representative of the Red Cross addresses the residents of the city, speaks into a microphone.

One of the women speaks, standing in front of the microphone.

Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church walk to the guest stands before the Victory Parade on June 24, 1945. Commanders of the combined regiments of the fronts walk to their places.

The combined regiment of the Navy in parade formation on Red Square.

Servicemen of the battalion of captured colors in formation.

The clock on the Spasskaya Tower.

Regiments of the fronts in parade formation.

Panorama of the battalion of captured colors.

The first rank of the battalion.

Hitler's personal standard and the banners of the Wehrmacht units, inclined to the cobblestones of Red Square.

Officers and generals on the guest stand.

Commanders of the combined regiments walk past the guest stands.

Navy sailors walk to the guest stand.

Hitler's standard, inclined to the cobblestones.

The adjutant removes the cloak from Marshal Zhukov G.K. in the courtyard of the Kremlin, Zhukov goes to his horse.

Zhukov mounts his horse.

Zhukov rides towards the exit to Red Square.

Zhukov rides out of the Spasskaya Tower gates onto Red Square, panorama of part of the square.

Tankers in parade formation.

Zhukov rides through the Kremlin grounds.

Soviet artillery fires at the enemy during the storming of Berlin in April 1945. Meeting of Soviet, American and British troops.

Rocket artillery fires at Berlin.

Zhukov at the command post.

A heavy gun on a street in Berlin.

German soldiers surrender.

White flags on the balconies of a building in Berlin.

Soviet troops on the streets of Berlin, refugees and those deported to Germany return home.

Soviet soldiers plant a red banner on a building in Berlin.

Field Marshal Keitel signs the Act of Surrender.

Arrival of the victorious soldiers' train at the Belorussky Station.

Relatives greet returning soldiers.

Residents of Moscow greet victorious soldiers walking through the streets of the city.

A wife greets her husband who has returned from the war.

Jubilant residents of Moscow on Red Square on May 9, 1945, view of St.

Basil's Cathedral.

People wave an officer.

Stalin I.V., Budyonny S.M. on the mausoleum tribune during the Victory Parade.

Marshals Konev I.S., Rokossovsky K.K., Vasilevsky A.M. greet the passing troops from the mausoleum tribune.

Admiral Kuznetsov N.G. and Marshal Timoshenko S.K. on the mausoleum tribune.

A battalion of captured banners marches across Red Square, faces of spectators.

Nazi banners are thrown at the foot of the mausoleum.

Faces of spectators.

Nazi banners thrown at the foot of the mausoleum.

View of Red Square during the Victory Parade (above).

Rifle units, students of military academies, and a combined naval regiment march across Red Square.

The Kuban Cossack Regiment marches on foot.

Fireworks over the Spasskaya Tower.

View of Red Square during the evening fireworks.

Festive fireworks in the evening sky over Moscow.