Soviet mortar crew commander gives the order to fire from 120 mm mortars (1938 model, PM-38); Leningrad Front, 1941.

Commence fire!

Soviet mortarmen are firing from a 120-mm regimental mortar model 1938 (PM-38) on a street in the city of Gleiwitz (now Gliwice in Poland). They are firing at the Nazis, who are entrenched in the ruins of buildings; January 1945.

Mortar fire in Gleiwitz

The effects of war on the human body.

“These two pictures are shown side by side in the Andrei Pozdeev museum. The museum caption reads: “(Left) The artist Eugen Stepanovich Kobytev the day he went to the front in 1941. (Right) In 1945 when he returned”. This shows the human face after four years of war. The first picture looks at you, the second one looks through you.”
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