Neither fools nor fools scribblers
Don't confuse your hearts anymore.
They took away your homeland more than once -
We have come to return it to you.
Lyrics: Anatoly D'Aktil (Frenkel), music: Daniil and Dmitry Pokrass
History in documents. Not so long ago, VO published a series of articles devoted to the Soviet-Finnish war of 1939-1940. The text of the articles was accompanied by photographs, allowing you to see what was happening with your own eyes, and this is always a very correct decision on the part of the author. However, serious materials of this kind, in my opinion, still need to be supported by documents and links to at least some sources. After all, whoever wrote about this war, in which only popular magazines I have come across articles on this topic! In the newspaper "Secrets of the XX century" there were materials, in the magazine "Rodina" - well, just a lot, the magazine "Voprosy istorii" - even with the involvement of documents from both sides wrote, even the magazine "Vokrug Sveta" - and he published several articles about " Winter War "! But where to get such materials? In the archives of the Ministry of Defense, where "everything is", you will not run into. In order to get into the archive of the OK VKP (b) of Leningrad, you have to live there, the same story with the Russian Humanitarian Science Foundation, in a word, it is very, very difficult to find something new on this topic today. What about a photo? There is the Krasnogorsk archive of film and photo documents. For those who live in the Volga region, the archive of KaPRIVO is available, there are also very interesting photos, but this is all the time and money, which, as a rule, do not pay off with popular articles. However, there is a source that all historians should know and use in order to make their materials more interesting, to show events through the eyes of people of that era, through the prism of their perception and … the political situation. This source, available to everyone and everyone: materials of the organ of the Central Committee of the CPSU (b) / CPSU - the newspaper "Pravda". Every communist had to write it out and check his life path against its leading articles. And if you don't check, then … what kind of communist are you then ?!
And today we will try to tell you about the events of those distant years with the help of photocopies of materials from this particular newspaper. A small commentary will be given for each photo. The purpose of such comments is to draw attention to some interesting moments of these newspaper materials, which a not too attentive reader (and there are, unfortunately, those on "VO") may miss or leave without proper attention. So…
Well, now we will look at the photographs that were published in Pravda at the same time. They are all very curious, although each in its own way.
