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World War II – in photographs of a Soviet
The photographer Valery Faminsky accompanied the Soviet troops in 1944 and 1945 on their advance. His pictures show the unadorned reality in World War II.
Valery Faminsky accompanied the Soviet troops in the Second World War as the photographer of the military medical museum. He absolutely wanted to go to the front, so I even wrote Stalin. In 1993 he died in Moscow.
Faminsky’s pictures depict the unadorned reality, they also show the suffering and struggle of the Russian soldiers, also in the field hospital – motifs that otherwise hardly appeared in the Soviet propaganda. He moved to Berlin with the troops, his pictures from there also reproduce the strange mix of normality and complete destruction.
Arthur Bondar is a photographer himself and collects historical photographs and negative. The Ukrainian found the work of Valery Faminsky by chance via an advertisement. The pictures that we show here come mainly from the spring of 1945 – when the German capitulated.
Source: Stern
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