A Red Army soldier escorting a column of German soldiers captured near Moscow; December 29, 1941.

Smiling for the camera - he has the gun

Battery of Soviet 76-mm F-22 (USV) cannons on the Kalinin front; 1942-43.
  The Kalinin Front was a major formation of the Red Army active in the Eastern Front of World War II, named for the city of Kalinin.

Battery in position

A Red Army soldier appears to be casually watching - not guarding, (his weapon is just hanging off his back) - a group of Hungarian soldiers and officers on Kinizsi utca (street) in Budapest. February 1945.