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It is that shitty watercolor time again. No matter how new the painting is, it always looks kinda old, it's so eye-wateringly bad.

Today, I want to let Ivan Konev continue the journey of using up the stuff. The photo I used as the reference, the soldier is wearing a Wehrmacht helmet. It baffled me for a moment until my more knowledgeable friend told me that Konev is known to loot stuff from the Germans.

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This is my old doodle of Soviet Marshal V. D. Sokolovsky. It is not my prettiest drawing, I tried to fix it but it still looks a bit ass and does not do the handsome guy justice. But today I look at him, and I'm kind of like-- I wish I had his "people talent". THAT would be helpful :(

I remember that from Gregory Klimov's memoir, there were many anecdotal stories floating among the Red Army ranks. For example, Marshal Zhukov would dress himself as an ordinary soldier, stand upon a muddy crossroad, and try to flag down the Red army transport vehicles to see which one would stop and pick up a helpless old soldier-- and which ones wouldn't. He noted down the cars that sped past him and would later hand those officers' asses back to them. Of course, it was probably just a Soviet urban legend, yet it conveys that Zhukov is a self-righteous hero of harsh temperament.

Another urban legend is "being as smart as Sokolovsky". The soviet civilians would taunt each other "oh yeah? Are you as smart as comrade Sokolovsky?" I don't know exactly what unverifiable stories gave rise to this impression, but it holds some water. Sokolovsky had been the wise but inconspicuous spoke person between the east and the west, the army and the Poliburo. He had been Zhukov's right hand man during the entire Patriotic War, and assisted him in dealing with formal Allied meetings.

He literally emerge unscathed during all the internal power struggles.

anyway, enough waffling. I wonder how he maneuvered between rival marshals, or powerful officials who hate each other generally. I have a person I would say whose ability I respect (I don't personally know them tbh), and a friend who helped me make my merchs (yes, I have merchs; I haven't got them, they are coming soon). But the friend hates that person with a vengeance. All I could do in this situation is dig a hole and socially die in it.

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K. K. Rokossovsky, G. K. Zhukov and I.S. Konev.

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This is a 2022 Year of Tiger celebration art. How time flies by.

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This is a website that I don't have a clue what to do about it 💔

Originally a fansite for the dark-humor historic movie "the Death of Stalin", my broke ass couldn't continue this god-forsaken Wix premium plan. Of course I won't delete it, but I'd like to at least backup the looks of this red army page.