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FIGURE 1 Evgenii Khaldei’s photograph of the demobilization echelon departing from Berlin on 10 July 1945. Reproduced courtesy of Picture Alliance/DPA/Bridgeman Images.
FIGURE 2 Soldiers wave off the famous My iz Berlina! (‘We have come from Berlin!’) carriage, Berlin, 10 July 1945. Reproduced courtesy of akg images.
FIGURE 3 A group of veterans photographed by Natalia Bode, Berlin, 10 July 1945. This photograph and several others of this demobilization echelon can be accessed at https://en.topwar.ru/29894-natalya-bode-voyna-glazami-zhenschiny.html (Last accessed 4 February 2022).
FIGURE 4 Veterans arriving at Leningrad’s Baltic Station, David Trakhtenberg, 15 July 1945, TsGAKFFD-SPb Ar110406. Reproduced with the permission of the Central State Archive of Documentary Films, Photographs, and Sound Recordings of St. Petersburg.
FIGURE 5 The Front cover of Ogonek, No.31 published on 5 August 1945, a montage of photographs from Moscow’s Rzhevskii Station taken on 17 July 1945.
FIGURE 6 Veterans arriving at Moscow’s Belorussian Station on 21 July 1945, photographed by Arkadii Shaikhet. Reproduced courtesy akg-images/fine-art-images.
FIGURE 7 B. Prorokova, ‘The Universal Placard,’ Krokodil, no.13, 10 May 1947, 10, an image which pokes fun at Soviet poster design and indicates the knowing eye through which Soviet citizens viewed visual propaganda.
FIGURE 8 The Obelisk to the Great Victory, (Stela Soldaty Velikoi Pobedy), Samara, photographed by the author in July 2013.
