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pattern-53-enfield · 1 year

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Lydia Spivak, "Ballerina of the Brandenburg Gate"

#red army #soviet union #world war 2 #victory in europe day #brandenburg gate #historical footage #history #ukrainian

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theworldatwar · 6 months

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Soviet soldiers occupy a trench during the defence of Leningrad - Jan 1943

#world war two #1940s #worldwar2photos #history #ww2 #ww2 history #wwii #world war 2 #ww2history #wwii era #eastern front #sovietunion #soviet union #red army #leningrad #1943

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valcaira · 3 months

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i fucking wish people would stop putting the soviet hammer and sickle symbol on my dash. you people are disgusting.

sincerely: a tired belarusian

#it's a hate symbol stop idolizing it #stop idolizing the ussr #stop idolizing the soviet union #stop idolizing the red army #tankie punks fuck off

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welldonekhushi · 2 months

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Call of Duty OC: Katya Kovalevskaya 🌹

An updated bio sheet of Katya! The last one felt like it was straight Wiki format style, but doesn't really explain her character properly, I also added some changes to her character as well so, here you go! <3

GENERAL:

Name: Katya

Full name: Yekaterina Viktornovna Kovalevskaya

Codename: "Katyusha"

Alias(es): Lady of Death (by the Red Army), Mama Katya (by her soldiers), Der Russische Leutnant (by the Germans)

Age: 32 years old (Call of Duty: World at War), 58 years old (Call of Duty: Black Ops), 70 years old (Black Ops: Cold War)

Gender: Female

Nationality: Russian

Languages spoken: Russian, German (for intelligence purposes), English

Date of birth: June 15, 1916

Place of Birth: Ural Mountains, Imperial Russia

Sexuality: Heterosexual

Martial Status: Single

Occupation: Senior Lieutenant and Sniper of the Red Army (retires after the events of the first Black Ops)

Status: Active

Rank: Senior Lieutenant (1942), Lieutenant Colonel (1945)

Affiliation: Red Army, CIA (briefly)

Universe: Call of Duty: World at War, Call of Duty: Black Ops, Black Ops: Cold War (alternative AU)

Faceclaim: Anna Chipovskaya

Song: "Katyusha" by Boris Alexandrov

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Biography: Yekaterina, commonly known as Katya joins the Red Army for the service of the Soviet Union to avenge her parents death under the hands of German forces. While defending her country amidst the raging Second World War, she faces tremendous amounts of obstacles and barriers in her life which often try to make them as her weakness, but the woman was sworn to take her last breath in achieving one goal with her comrades — and that was liberating Berlin.

AFFILIATIONS:

3rd Shock Army (Red Army)

Sergeant Viktor Reznov [K.I.A]

Private Dimitri Petrenko [K.I.A]

Private Chernov [K.I.A]

Commissar Markhov [fate unknown]

Major General Nikita Dragovich [K.I.A]

Colonel Lev Kravchenko [fate unknown]

CIA (Call of Duty: Black Ops)

Alex Mason

Frank Woods

Jason Hudson

Grigori Weaver

SKILLS AND ABILITIES:

Weapon induced: Scoped Mosin-Nagant, Tokarev (TT-33), PPSh-41, Molotov Cocktail, RGD-33

Fighting style: Hand-to-hand combat, but rarely, since she's more used to being a sniper giving covering fire

Special skills: Is a very experienced sniper, that gave her the infamous name of "Lady of Death", but Katya didn't want to coin such a name for herself when she was only serving her people as a soldier of the frontlines.

Talents: Knows natural remedies, holds a lot of empathy for others, can speak fluent German even if she knows a little bit of it

Shortcomings: Due to the incident, she lost her face partially along with the half-vision of her eye throughout the accident, faces survivors guilt, is a bit mentally depressed but she's able to push those negative thoughts down

PERSONALITY:

Myers-Briggs Type: ISFJ (The Defender)

Is very protective towards her comrades: Ever since she lost her parents, Katya had always been searching for a way to cope up with her loss by taking care of the people she loves and believes in the most. Even if she never married, or birthed a child, she automatically unlocked her motherly instincts by calling her comrades as her "sons and daughters", considering them as her one, found family.

Ruthless, but at times merciful: Katya has shown immense strength and courage in the battlefield as a sniper and a squad leader, haunting the Germans in their own sleep thinking Katya wouldn't kill them and make the mattress they're sleeping on as their deathbed. But also, when Katya wants to show mercy, she'll show it. She thinks there's no use to wasting her own bullets on someone who already decided to surrender to the Red Army.

Emotional: Let it be a soldier dying, or a civilian, she'll ask forgiveness from God that she wasn't able to save an innocent despite having the duty to protect her own people. The incident that killed all of her soldiers left her deeply scarred, and believed she committed a bigger sin for being too naive and careless, and she deserved the impact on her face. It was even worse when Nikita Dragovich killed her teammates again by putting them as test subjects for the Nova 6 experiment that made her grow deranged and bloodthirsty to hunt Dragovich and his lapdog, Kravchenko in a fit of vengeance, until the CIA caught her presence.

Intelligent and observant: Katya is more aware of her surroundings ever since the incident impacted her, which caused her to be very vigilant, and grew her intelligence in the battlefield which made her useful for the Red Army as a sniper and as a squad leader in the infantry.

BACKGROUND STORY

Katya was born around 1916 with her mother Elizaveta Kovalevskaya (neé Petrova) and father, Viktor Kovalevsky. Spending her childhood in the Ural Mountains, she learnt how to snipe at a young age from her father, who was a hunter, the reason why she took her father's skill in the field of sniping.

In 1939, she recruited herself in the Red Army as a sniper, in which her talent gave a huge role and reputation among the soldiers as a source of bravery, courage and inspiration, that gave her the name "Lady of Death". But, Katya on the other hand didn't want to coin such a name for herself when she believes she's only doing it for the protection of her own people.

But, in 1941, when Germany attacked Soviet Russia under "Operation Barbarossa", her village became a victim of the attacks, which ended up killing her family in the process. Broken and enraged, Katya wanted to avenge her parents death by going through missions and eliminating every single enemy who tried to cross the Soviet borders. Her life completely changed when one day she encountered General Heinrich Amsel, who was responsible for the death of her family along with many others, wanted to kill him by her own hands but never succeeded because he evaded before she could get to him.

Furious, the General wanted to eliminate Katya in her path, by luring her into a trap that he was staying at a hotel and could grab her an opportunity to end his life there. But little to her knowledge, it was all a set up, when he used that entire building as a decoy with the explosives attached. His soldiers locked away his teammates, including Katya but she was able to break through it. In a desperate attempt to find her comrades who were still locked inside, it was too late before the explosion could take effect, and blew her out of the building, leaving her drastically injured.

The explosion was the turning point of her life, where it emotionally scarred her and made her regret being a soldier, when she couldn't even protect her own soldiers, who basked into the flames of Amsel's planned explosion. She was taken for medical assistance, which took her a month to recover physically, and mentally. But, that didn't stop Katya from retiring, as her mind still revolved around that one goal — to eliminate General Amsel, and push all the German forces back from invading Russia.

Somewhere around 1942, she was promoted to Senior Lieutenant, and became the squad leader for the 3rd Shock Army, and participated in the Battle of Stalingrad alongside Pvt. Dimitri Petrenko and Sgt. Viktor Reznov. As the General's whereabouts were found, she led her team throughout the warzone and successfully countered Amsel, which led to his untimely death under the hands of Dimitri's sniper rifle. Katya, who held immense pride for the Private for doing something she couldn't, made him along with Reznov and Chernov as her closest comrades.

After the entire battle, in 1945, they finally achieved victory by liberating Berlin by hoisting the Soviet flag on the Reichstag, Katya was now at peace, hoping for a better future after the war's end.

But, somehow.. her life was going to go into a bigger turmoil, when she gets sent to the mission around the Arctic Circle, leading the events of the first Black Ops.

#oc #oc story #oc biography #original character #ww2 oc #russian oc #red army #soviet union #cod #call of duty #cod waw #cod bo #call of duty world at war #call of duty black ops #call of duty oc #katya kovalevskaya #character profile #original character profile #oc profile

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carbone14 · 6 months

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Des soldats roumains à leur poste d'observation – Bataille du Caucase – Kouban – Union soviétique – Avril 1943

#WWII #front est #eastern front #opération fall blau #case blue #bataille du caucase #battle of caucasus #armée roumaine #romanian army #kouban #kuban #union soviétique #soviet union #urss #ussr #04/1943 #1943

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vox-anglosphere · 9 months

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Formed in 1660, the Coldstream Guards are Britain's oldest regiment

#Coldstream Guards #Windsor Castle #Berkshire #bearskin caps #British Army #military history #royal regiment #uniforms #Union flag #regimental colours #tradition #UK

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coolthingsguyslike · 5 months

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#Civil War #Ulysses S Grant #General #President #Union Army #history #Americana

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todaysdocument · 3 months

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Nomination of Ulysses S. Grant as Lieutenant General of the Army

Record Group 46: Records of the U.S. SenateSeries: Anson McCook Collection of Presidential Signatures

Executive Mansion, Washington, February 28, 1864 To the Senate of the United States I nominate Ulysses S. Grant, now a Major General in the Military service, to be Lieutenant General in the Army of the United States. Abraham Lincoln

#archivesgov #March 1 #1864 #us civil war #ulysses s. grant #abraham lincoln #union army #19th century

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the-garbanzo-annex-jr · 9 months

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#kerch #kerch ukraine #holocuast #soviet union #red army

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theworldatwar · 9 months

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A Soviet assault squad come out of hiding to start their advance - Stalingrad 1942

#world war two #1940s #worldwar2photos #history #ww2 #ww2 history #wwii #world war 2 #ww2history #wwii era #eastern front #1942 #soviet union #red army #stalingrad

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leftistfeminista · 20 days

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An Iranian political painting depicting Stalin as a Persian archer shooting the ‘Red Army’ at Hitler’s heart, 1945.

#ussr #soviet union #may 9 #stalin #red army #iranian art #persian art

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deadpresidents · 1 month

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[Portrait of General Ulysses S. Grant by Constant Mayer, 1866]

Happy 202nd birthday to Ulysses S. Grant, 18th President of the United States and the unlikely commanding General who helped defeat the Confederacy in the Civil War and preserve the Union. Grant was born (and originally named Hiram Ulysses Grant) on April 27, 1822 in Point Pleasant, Ohio, and was the first of six Presidents born in Ohio who were elected in 52-year span between 1868 and 1920. Grant served two terms in the White House (1869-1877) and died on July 23, 1885 at a cottage on Mount McGregor in upstate New York where he worked tirelessly to complete his Memoirs while dying of cancer, finishing the book just five days before his death.

Keep an eye on your dashboard throughout the day for a bunch of posts about General Grant!

#History #Presidents #Ulysses S. Grant #General Grant #President Grant #Grant Administration #Grant #Grant's Birthday #Presidency #Presidential History #Military History #Military Leaders #Civil War #Civil War History #Civil War Generals #Union Generals #Union Army

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fictionadventurer · 10 months

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Any Civil War history from the Confederate perspective (especially early in the war) is always insane from a modern perspective, because no matter what complexities or patriotic feelings they try to bring up, it eventually always boils down to

Confederate: Abraham Lincoln is ACTUAL SATAN!

Me: Okay, that's a pretty serious charge. What makes you say that?

Them: He wants to free the slaves!

Me:

Me: ....that's it?

Them: What do you mean??

Me: I just thought maybe there'd be something else. Something actually evil.

Them: Isn't that enough??

Me: To put this mildly...no.

Rose Greenhow: He looks like an ape and doesn't know which wine to drink at dinner.

Me: That's just mean and you're a snob. It doesn't mean he's evil. Isn't there anything else?

Them:

Them: Oh, I got it! He's a tyrant who won't let us secede!

Me: Okay, but why did you want to secede?

Them: Because Lincoln's an evil tyrant who wants to free the slaves!

At which point I throw my hands up in despair, baffled at the extreme cultural and moral gulf.

#history is awesome #presidential talk #for context this mental conversation is happening while i listen to the confederate spy sections of my audiobook #i keep waiting to hear another reason for their hatred and it never comes #later on in the war it makes sense because he's been in charge of the enemy army for a long time #but early on they got nothing but stuff they started #this doesn't even get into the irony of how he bent over backward not to free the slaves to keep the union together #but that's an entirely different and morally grayer conversation

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carbone14 · 5 months

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Des éclaireurs soviétiques du 1031e Régiment d'artillerie de la 100e Division d'infanterie de la 40e Armée du Front de Voronej dans la salle de contrôle principale de la centrale hydroélectrique de Voronej – Première bataille de Voronej – 1942

#WWII #front est #eastern front #bataille de voronej #battle of voronezh #armée soviétique #soviet army #armée rouge #red army #front de voronej #voronezh front #1st ukrainian front #voronej #voronezh #union soviétique #soviet union #urss #ussr #1942

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masha-nikita · 19 days

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Today is Victory Day, the Soviet holiday.

Here's my old drawing of Sergei Shtemenko and Aleksei Antonov of the Red Army General Staff.

:D

#wwii art #wwii #red army #Sergei Shtemenko #Aleksei Antonov #soviet union

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head-post · 3 months

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Red Army Faction member arrested in Germany after decades on the run

A former member of the left-wing militant group Red Army Faction has been arrested after more than 30 years on the run, German authorities said on Tuesday.

The Bild newspaper, citing unnamed security sources, reported that 65-year-old Daniela Klette was arrested in Berlin on Monday night.

Klette is one of three former members of the Red Army Faction who have been wanted by police for several years. Klette, Ernst-Volker Staub and Burkhard Garweg were involved in at least 12 robberies in northern Germany between 1999 and 2016. They were also wanted for attempted murder. Authorities speculate that the motive behind the robberies was money rather than any political considerations.