horrible times. more horrible, that ukraine has to deal with them right now.
This looks like a NKVD officer trying to inconspicously overhear the two guys conversation.
I wonder how the Cold War would have been different if Moscow had kept East Austria as a puppet state
Fun fact: Both Hitler and Stalin lived in Vienna for a long period during 1913. They both walked daily in Schönbrunn Palac gardens so chances are that they might have run into each other on one or several occasions.
Taking breaks among all the rapes.
How exactly did the Soviets end up not occupying postwar Austria? Seems unlike Stalin to give up territory once occupied.
It’s always so odd to me to see places so tidy in 1945. Somehow my brain expects them to be all roughed up to reflect the times better.
That Vienna is such a pompous city, even after it had been partly bombed, was actually a challenge for Sowjet propaganda. They had to explain to their soldiers why the losers of the war appeared to be so much wealthier than the regions these soldiers were from.
People had no food yet alone luxuries, however in 1945 most apartments in Vienna were already heated, had warm water and Vienna had a modern sewer system, wich meant that all in all the quality of life for many soldiers improved when they left Russia. Sowjet leadership reacted by increasing the weight soldiers were allowed to send home every month, pretty much urging them to steal stuff then.
That guy one the left on the bench: “I wish I could read”
How much did they loot?
The museums of Budapest, for example, are missing several art pieces to this very day.
“Vasya! These krauts are so advanced – they even have these potato washing machines, that they call “toilets”.
What a setup!
And when they returned to the Soviet Union, I bet Stalin sent them straight to the Gulags.
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Villagers who have never in their lives seen a toilet or a bouquet of flowers stumbled upon the “evil of capitalist Europe”.
Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allied-occupied_Austria#/media/File:%D0%9C%D0%B8%D1%80%D0%BD%D1%8B%D0%B5_%D0%B1%D1%83%D0%B4%D0%BD%D0%B8_%D0%B2_%D0%BF%D0%BE%D1%81%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%BE%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B9_%D0%92%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B5-5.png
Dangerous times to be a woman there.
horrible times. more horrible, that ukraine has to deal with them right now.
This looks like a NKVD officer trying to inconspicously overhear the two guys conversation.
I wonder how the Cold War would have been different if Moscow had kept East Austria as a puppet state
Fun fact: Both Hitler and Stalin lived in Vienna for a long period during 1913. They both walked daily in Schönbrunn Palac gardens so chances are that they might have run into each other on one or several occasions.
Taking breaks among all the rapes.
How exactly did the Soviets end up not occupying postwar Austria? Seems unlike Stalin to give up territory once occupied.
It’s always so odd to me to see places so tidy in 1945. Somehow my brain expects them to be all roughed up to reflect the times better.
That Vienna is such a pompous city, even after it had been partly bombed, was actually a challenge for Sowjet propaganda. They had to explain to their soldiers why the losers of the war appeared to be so much wealthier than the regions these soldiers were from.
People had no food yet alone luxuries, however in 1945 most apartments in Vienna were already heated, had warm water and Vienna had a modern sewer system, wich meant that all in all the quality of life for many soldiers improved when they left Russia. Sowjet leadership reacted by increasing the weight soldiers were allowed to send home every month, pretty much urging them to steal stuff then.
That guy one the left on the bench: “I wish I could read”
How much did they loot?
The museums of Budapest, for example, are missing several art pieces to this very day.
“Vasya! These krauts are so advanced – they even have these potato washing machines, that they call “toilets”.
What a setup!
And when they returned to the Soviet Union, I bet Stalin sent them straight to the Gulags.
Just got done raping