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  • 4
    Dec
    2012
    8:35pm, EST

    Mushrooms grown in former Soviet missile base in Belarus

    Vasily Fedosenko / Reuters

    A worker checks mushroom beds at a private farm located inside hangars of a former Soviet missile base in Minoity, Belarus, Dec. 4, 2012. The farm cultivates and sells about 10 tons of oyster mushrooms, or Veshenka mushrooms, each month in Belarus and neighboring countries. The mushrooms cost 23,000 Belarusian roubles ($2.70) per kilogram.

    Vasily Fedosenko / Reuters

    A worker gathers mushrooms from mushroom beds at a private farm located inside hangars of a former Soviet missile base in Minoity, Belarus, Dec. 4.

    Vasily Fedosenko / Reuters

    A worker pulls a palette stacked with mushroom beds at a private farm located inside hangars of a former Soviet missile base in Minoity, Belarus, Dec. 4.

    Vasily Fedosenko / Reuters

    A worker closes the door of a hangar at a private farm in a former Soviet missile base in Minoity, Belarus, Dec. 4.

     

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  • 9
    May
    2012
    10:19am, EDT

    Parades commemorate Soviet victory in World War II

    Anatoly Maltsev / EPA

    ST. PETERSBURG, RUSSIA: Members of military-historical clubs wearing Soviet World War II-era uniforms dance at the Warsaw train station in St.Petersburg on May 9, 2012, marking Victory Day celebrations.

    Sergei Supinsky / AFP - Getty Images

    KIEV, UKRAINE: A boy climbs on a World War II monument at an open air museum in Kiev on May 9, 2012.

    Natalia Kolesnikova / AFP - Getty Images

    MOSCOW, RUSSIA: Russia's newly-inaugurated President Vladimir Putin and new Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev watch a Victory Day parade at Red Square on May 9, 2012.

    Maxim Shipenkov / EPA

    MOSCOW, RUSSIA: Russian WWII veterans drink during celebrations marking the 67th anniversary of victory over Germany on May 9, 2012.

    Reuters reports — President Vladimir Putin, speaking in Moscow's Red Square with military generals at his side, said he would promote Russia's might on the world stage in a patriotic speech on Wednesday glorifying the Soviet victory over Germany in World War Two.

    Two days after being sworn in for a six-year term that has drawn protests against his return to the Kremlin, Putin used the address to troops and war veterans at the annual military parade on Red Square to reinforce appeals for national unity.

    400 protesters arrested hours before Putin's return to Russian presidency

    "Russia consistently follows a policy of strengthening global security and we have a great moral right to stand up determinedly for our positions because our country suffered the blow of Nazism," Putin said on a podium flanked by military chiefs bristling with medals under the Kremlin's red walls. Read the full story.

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    Abir Sultan / EPA

    JERUSALEM, ISRAEL: Relatives of Israeli veterans who fought against the Nazis wear Soviet uniforms as they march in Jerusalem on May 9, 2012.

    ST. PETERSBURG, RUSSIA: People meet the 'Victory train, a vintage locomotive with members of a historical military club aboard, at Varshavsky railway station on May 9, 2012.

    Ilmars Znotins / AFP - Getty Images

    RIGA, LATVIA: A boy wearing an old military hat looks on as his father makes tea at the World War II monument in Riga on May 9, 2012.

     

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    Hey just a refresher, Stalin killed more people than Hitler did.

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  • 22
    Jun
    2011
    11:24am, EDT

    Dramatic photos of World War II reenactment in Belarus

    Tatyana Zenkovich / EPA

    Members of military historical clubs, perform a mock battle between the Soviet and Nazi troops during the ceremony at the Brest fortress, on the 70th anniversary the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union of 1941, in the town of Brest, Belarus, June 22, 2011.

    Tatyana Zenkovich / EPA

    Members of military historical clubs, dressed WWII style, perform a mock battle between the Soviet and Nazi troops during the ceremony at the Brest fortress, marking the 70th anniversary of the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, in the town of Brest, Belarus, June 22, 2011. Soldiers of Brest fortress, surrounded by German troops in first days of the war and fought them for weeks, becoming a legendary symbol of Soviet soldiers' heroism.

    By Phaedra Singelis, NBC News

     More photos from commemorations in Moscow posted earlier on PhotoBlog.

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  • 22
    Jun
    2011
    10:54am, EDT

    Remembering the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union

    Sergey Ponomarev / AP

    Russian Orthodox Church clergymen stand under rain during a wreath laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier outside Moscow's Kremlin wall, June 22, 2011, to mark the 70th anniversary of the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union.

    Maxim Shipenkov / EPA

    A woman visits the Preobrazhenskoye cemetery, during commemorations on the 70th anniversary of the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union, in Moscow, June 22, 2011. Germany started their the military offensive called 'Operation Barbarossa,' on this day in 1941.

    By Phaedra Singelis, NBC News

    According to Wikipedia: On June 22, 1941, Germany, along with other European Axis members and Finland, invaded the Soviet Union in Operation Barbarossa,  the largest military operation in human history in both manpower and casualties.

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    History tends to repeat itself. Pray that the history that is WWII never does. The world had better wake up to the Iranian threat and take it out now before it becomes incredibly expensive to do it later.

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