How artists portrayed the USSR's victory in World War II (PICS)

State Tretyakov Gallery Mikhail Khmelko. The Triumph of the Victorious Motherland (1949)
State Tretyakov Gallery
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.

State Tretyakov Gallery 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)
State Tretyakov Gallery
Oryol Museum of Fine Arts Vladimir Bogatkin. The Last Throw. Storming the Reichstag (1945)
Oryol Museum of Fine Arts
Central Armed Forces Museum Pyotr Krivonogov. Capitulation of Nazi troops in Berlin (1946)
Central Armed Forces Museum
Vladimir Vdovin/Sputnik Pyotr Krivonogov. Victory (1948)
Vladimir Vdovin/Sputnik
State Museum of the Defence of Moscow Yuri Bondarenko. Victory (1985)
State Museum of the Defence of Moscow
Donetsk Republican Art Museum Boris Okorokov. The First Day of Peace (1975)
Donetsk Republican Art Museum
Museum of Contemporary History of Russia Vladimir Shtranich. Victory Holiday on May 9, 1945 (1946)
Museum of Contemporary History of Russia
State Tretyakov Gallery Mikhail Khmelko. The Triumph of the Victorious Motherland (1949)
State Tretyakov Gallery
Victory Museum Konstantin Antonov. Winners (1985)
Victory Museum
Sputnik Vladimir Kostetsky. The Return (1947)
Sputnik
Museum of the Tkachev Brothers Sergei Tkachev, Alexei Tkachev. May of 1945 (1981)
Museum of the Tkachev Brothers
Museum of Military Uniforms Pyotr Zhigimont. Soldier's Song (1954)
Museum of Military Uniforms
Kyiv National Art Gallery Museum Andrei Gorsky. Missing in Action (1962)
Kyiv National Art Gallery Museum

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