Подборка фотографий Второй мировой войны

MANDATORY CREDIT: Eric Lusito/Rex Features. Only for use in story about Eric Lusito's 'After the Wall: Traces of the Soviet Empire' photo project. Editorial Use Only. No stock, books, advertising or merchandising without photographer's permission Mandatory Credit: Photo by Eric Lusito/REX Shutterstock (4033703o) Document recovered from a Soviet military base abandoned after the collapse of the USSR. WW2 Victory parade held in 1990, Red Square, Moscow, Russia. Soldiers in World War Two uniforms carry 150 battle banners of the units and companies, that were most distinguished in the years of the Great Patriotic War as WW2 was known. Eric Lusito - Traces of the Soviet Empire FULL COPY: http://www.rexfeatures.com/nanolink/p8ug These haunting photographs show the remnants of the once all-powerful Soviet empire. They are the work of Eric Lusito, who spent six years travelling throughout the former Soviet world from East Germany to Mongolia, from Poland to Kazakhstan to seek out remains of the military installations that embodied the ambition and the might of the USSR. Describing himself as working like an archaeologist, the French photographer says his project 'Traces of the Soviet Empire' is a photographic record of the land and architecture - haunted by the symbols and history of a once powerful Empire. The on-going project takes the form of three series: exteriors, interiors, and found photographs 'images from another time, another space and another world'. What he found was colourful propaganda wall art, faded frescos of Lenin, discarded gas masks, and huge monuments, including those in the shapes of a soldier and a sword.

Mandatory Credit: Photo by Images Group/REX Shutterstock (3827365a) Marshal of the Soviet Union, konstantin rokossovsky, on his way to red square from the Kremlin for the victory day parade, Moscow, 1945. VARIOUS

Unconditional surrender of the German armed forces, Rheims, France, World War II, 7 May 1945. *** Local Caption *** Unconditional surrender of the German armed forces, Rheims, France, World War II, 7 May 1945. French Major-General François Sevez (1891-1948), US Army General Walter Bedell Smith (1895-1961) and US Air Force General Carl Spaatz (1891-1974). The Soviet representative at the signing, Major-General Ivan Susloparov, did not have official authorisation from Moscow to sign the document and the Soviets insisted on a second signing, which took place in Berlin shortly before midnight the following day.

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'The Victory Day', 1974. Ponomarenko, Oleg Grigorievich (*1948). Found in the collection of the Central Artist's House, Moscow.'

'Victory is close at hand! More help to the front!, 1944. Found in the collection of the Russian State Library, Moscow.'

Mandatory Credit: Photo by Images Group/REX Shutterstock (3827364a) Marshall of the Soviet Union, georgi Zhukov, in the Kremlin before the beginning of the victory parade in Moscow, USSR, 1945. VARIOUS

Mandatory Credit: Photo by Images Group/REX Shutterstock (3829476a) Victory day celebration in red square, Moscow, USSR, May 1945, people celebrating the end of world war 2 in Europe. VARIOUS

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Mandatory Credit: Photo by Images Group/REX Shutterstock (3827008a) Happy Moscow crowds fill red square during victory day celebrations in Moscow, USSR, may 9, 1945. VARIOUS

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Mandatory Credit: Photo by Images Group/REX Shutterstock (3827341a) A red army soldier and his girlfriend on gorky street after the victory day celebrations in red square on may 9, 1945, the towers of the Moscow Kremlin can be seen in the background. VARIOUS

Mandatory Credit: Photo by Images Group/REX Shutterstock (3827754a) Victory parade in red square, Moscow, USSR, June 24th, 1945, celebrating end of world war 2 in Europe, Moscow people greet soviet tank crew. VARIOUS

Moscow Victory Parade in Red Square, 1945.

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Moscow Sportsmen Hold Competitions in Honour of Victory Day. Presiding judge of the Sadovoye Boulevard relay race, Colonel General of the Soviet Air Force M M Gromov, the members of the collegium of judges before the start of the race. Supplied By: SCRSS - Society for Co-operation in Russian & Soviet Studies

Colonel Alexander Pokryshkin, Three star Hero of the Soviet Union, and Major General Gleb Baklanov, Hero of the Soviet Union, in the column of troops of the 1st Ukrainian Front at the Victory Parade in Moscow. Supplied By: SCRSS - Society for Co-operation in Russian & Soviet Studies

Mandatory Credit: Photo by Images Group/REX Shutterstock (3827366a) Marshal georgy Zhukov greeting foreign military attaches during the time of the victory parade in Moscow, May 1945. VARIOUS

Unconditional surrender of the German armed forces, Rheims, France, World War II, 7 May 1945.

Raising a flag over the Reichstag, 2 May 1945. Artist: Yevgeny Khaldei