#soviet russia

[son3chka]

[normalbike]

I need a game where you’re a soviet astronaut that landed in Siberia and you have to ski your way back to civilization and defend yourself with the tripple barrel shotgun pistol flare gun machete

[usafphantom6]

On May 29, 1942, Pe-8 No. 42066, equipped with AM-35A engines, delivered a delegation headed by People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs V.M. Molotov to Washington for negotiations. May-June 1942

The delegation first flew over occupied European countries to the UK for negotiations, then flew to the United States, stopping in Reykjavik, Iceland, and at Goose Bay Air Base in Canada.

The aircraft's commander was Endel Pusep, and its co-pilot was Vladimir Obukhov. Following the negotiations, the aircraft departed on June 4 and returned safely to Moscow.

For this flight, the entire bomber crew received awards: commander and navigator Alexander Shtepenko were awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union, and the others were awarded orders.

@Destroye83 via X

[gatomiau3]

Nose, simplemente es un gatito que se ve lindo,estaba viendo una imagen de la unión soviética y se me ocurrió hacer a Rusia pero como gatito,debería hacer más países?

[usafphantom6]

Soviet bomber Yermolaev Er-2 from the 81st Air Division ADD.

@ron_eisele via X

[usafphantom6]

Yak-9 fighters, manufactured at Aircraft Plant No. 153 (Novosibirsk), before being sent to the front. 1945

@Destroye83 via X

[usafphantom6]

Guards Colonel Fyodor Ivanovich Dobysh (center), commander of the 1st Guards Bomber Aviation Division, assigns a combat mission to his crew with his Pe-2 aircraft in the background.

On the right is Major Alexander Ivanovich Pomazunov, the future Hero of the Soviet Union, the division's senior navigator, and on the left is radio operator-gunner Koval. The "Guards" insignia and a snarling animal are painted on the bomber's fuselage. 1944

@Destroye83 via X

[usafphantom6]

Lydia Litvyak was the first woman in history to become a fighter ace, and one of the deadliest, a slight, blonde 21-year-old who painted a white lily on her fighter and shot down German planes over Stalingrad until the day she vanished in a dogfight. They called her the White Lily of Stalingrad.

She was a Russian girl, born to a Jewish family in Moscow, who had fallen in love with flying as a teenager and learned to fly before she could legally drive, so obsessed that she soloed at fifteen. When the war came and the Soviet Union, uniquely among the major powers, formed combat units of women pilots, Litvyak talked her way in, reportedly fudging her flight hours to qualify. She was tiny, cared about her appearance even at the front, bleached her hair, cut up her uniform to fit, and was utterly lethal in the air.

Sent to the desperate fighting over Stalingrad, she scored her first kills within days of arriving, becoming the first woman ever to shoot down an enemy aircraft in combat, and one of the men she downed was a German veteran with dozens of victories who, when captured, refused to believe he had been beaten by a young woman until she described the fight move for move. Over the following months she flew constantly, tangling with the best German pilots, was wounded more than once, kept going back up, and ran her score into the double figures, the highest tally any female fighter pilot has ever achieved, along with several shared kills. The white lily on her plane made her famous, and the Germans learned to be wary of it.

On August 1, 1943, at 21 years old, on her 66th combat mission, she dove into a swarm of German fighters and did not come back. Her plane and body were not found, and for decades her exact fate was unknown, which cruelly delayed her recognition, because there were even whispers she might have been captured rather than killed. It was only long after the war, when her remains were finally located and identified beneath the wreckage, that the record was set right, and in 1990 she was at last made a Hero of the Soviet Union.

The White Lily of Stalingrad, history's first female fighter ace, who painted a flower on her fighter and died in the sky at 21.

While widely celebrated as the White Lily, her moniker stems from a linguistic mix up where Western correspondents mistook the white lily on her fighter for a rose, giving her dual titles in wartime records. Additionally, her extraordinary performance earned her elite "Free Hunter" (Okhotnik) status, a rare privilege granting top Soviet aces complete tactical freedom to seek out and engage enemy aircraft on their own initiative.

@untoldWarStories via X