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An illustration from the Russian fairy tale "Vasilisa the Beautiful," depicting her journey to fetch light from Baba Yaga a task assigned by her stepmother. The light was kept inside a skull, and Baba Yaga’s fence was made of human bones. Painted by Ivan Bilibin 1899.

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An illustration from the Russian fairy tale "Vasilisa the Beautiful," depicting her journey to fetch light from Baba Yaga a task assigned by her stepmother. The light was kept inside a skull, and Baba Yaga’s fence was made of human bones. Painted by Ivan Bilibin 1899.

u/AN-94Abokan — 11 days ago

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A depiction of the 1770 Battle of Kagul, where Russian General Pyotr Rumyantsev, with 35,000 Russian troops, defeated an Ottoman army of 200,000 near the Danube Delta. Russian general earned the nickname "Zadunajsky" for this.

The artist behind the painting is the 18th-century Polish-Prussian painter Daniel Chodowiecki.

u/GlowingFires — 11 days ago

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Stalin was bad guy, he was opressing democratic opossition supported by the West. Democratic opossition supported by the West:

u/GlowingFires — 12 days ago

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Soldiers of the Red Army during battle of Stalingrad with PPSh-41 submachineguns.

u/GlowingFires — 12 days ago

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A Red Army soldier in Stalingrad in 1943 with a German POW from Paulus's 6th Army of Wehermacht. Soviet soldier is holding a Shpagin submachine gun PPSh-41.

u/GlowingFires — 12 days ago

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VDNKh - Exhibition of Achievements of the National Economy is a massive, permanent exhibition center, park built in 1935 in Stalinist architecture style in Moscow.

u/GlowingFires — 12 days ago

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Komsomolskaya metro station in Moscow built in "Stalinist Baroque" architecture. The idea of Stalin and Beria was to build palaces for the common people.

u/GlowingFires — 13 days ago