The Martyr Zoya Kosmodeyanskaya

Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya is a Russian legend that encompasses the devotional life of wartime Russia. She was a partisan teenager, who was tortured and hanged by the Germans. Throughout all the torture she endured, she remained silent and revealed no information about the Russian army. As she stood upon the gallows she shouted to the onlooking […]

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A New Soviet God

Through the late 1930’s the Soviet union was experiencing a new more quite change. While propaganda was a standard in the USSR there was a more serious influence that was occurring at the top. During this period Stalin had grown even more paranoid, and while the Purges rooted out his possible rivals and nay sayers […]

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“… Train my hands for war, and my fingers for battle…”

Steel and machinery are two crowning results of industrial power and ingenuity. With Stalin’s first Five Year Plan complete, the USSR had reached a level of industrialization achieved by few other nations.Pictured above is a parade of Soviet T-34 battle tanks. This beast of steel was the Soviet’s primary battle tank from 1934 through World War Two. The … Continue reading “… Train my hands for war, and my fingers for battle…”

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Rocketing into a New Culture

The early years of Stalin’s reign provided a multitude of revolutionary systems. The main goal focused on expanding and modernizing the economy and culture, pushing for a futuristic country. Along with the surge of industry, the technology and scientific realm saw a massive growth. The upbringing of the radio was one huge innovation with the […]

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