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The Second World War – in photographs of a Soviet
The photographer Valery Faminsky accompanied the Soviet troops on their advance in 1944 and 1945. His pictures show the raw reality of the Second World War.
As a photographer for the Military Medical Museum, Valery Faminsky accompanied the Soviet troops in World War II. He really wanted to go to the front, which is why he even wrote to Stalin. He died in Moscow in 1993.
Faminsky’s pictures depict the unvarnished reality; they also show the suffering and struggle of the Russian soldiers, even in the field hospital – motifs that otherwise hardly appeared in Soviet propaganda. He moved with the troops to Berlin, and his pictures from there also reflect the strange mixture of normality and complete destruction.
Arthur Bondar is a photographer himself and collects historical photographs and negatives. The Ukrainian found Valery Faminsky’s work by chance through an ad. The pictures we show here come primarily from the spring of 1945 – when the German Reich surrendered.
Source: Stern
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