How artists portrayed the USSR's victory in World War II (PICS)
It was important for artists to show not only the triumph of the Red Army in the defeated capital of the Third Reich, but also the touching moment when soldiers returned home and the country returned to peaceful life.
Kukryniksy: Mikhail Kupriyanov, Porfiry Krylov, Nikolai Sokolov. The End. The Last Days of Hitler's Stake in the Underground of the Reich Chancellery (1947-1948)
Vladimir Bogatkin. The Last Throw. Storming the Reichstag (1945)
Pyotr Krivonogov. Capitulation of Nazi troops in Berlin (1946)
Pyotr Krivonogov. Victory (1948)
Yuri Bondarenko. Victory (1985)
Boris Okorokov. The First Day of Peace (1975)
Vladimir Shtranich. Victory Holiday on May 9, 1945 (1946)
Mikhail Khmelko. The Triumph of the Victorious Motherland (1949)
Konstantin Antonov. Winners (1985)
Vladimir Kostetsky. The Return (1947)
Sergei Tkachev, Alexei Tkachev. May of 1945 (1981)
Pyotr Zhigimont. Soldier's Song (1954)
Andrei Gorsky. Missing in Action (1962)
