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Leaving a Son to the Partisans, Leningrad
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Mikhail Trakhman was one of several Soviet photographers dropped behind enemy lines by Sovinformburo, the main Soviet agency for the distribution of war-related information, to report on partisans who…

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Mikhail Trakhman

Places:

Leningrad, USSR (St. Petersburg, Russia)

Date:

1942

Subjects:

Photography, War, Politics, Family, Cities

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Photography
Photograph of mother kissing her son, who has a gun and a backpack, in foreground, while another soldier waits in the background on his horse holding the reins of another horse.
An Answer to the Slav
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I hesitate to sound immodest, So I must warn you in advance, If you will listen now in earnest, Then please excuse my stance. More startling than other words, And I will use this…

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Reuben Kulisher

Places:

St. Petersburg, Russian Empire (Saint Petersburg, Russia)

Date:

1849

Subjects:

Antisemitism, Nationalism, War, Violence, Enlightenment, Poetry, Politics

Categories:

Political Culture, Poetry, Popular Poetry