eastern bloc party

nostalgiya:

A grieving Russian mother. As the extent and reality of German atrocities became widely known throughout Russia, the will to resist stiffened and the “patriotic war” became in reality a “people’s war,” but the cost to soldier and civilian alike was horrendous, as this mother attests.

From Hitler versus Stalin—The Second World War on the Eastern Front in Photographs (2001) by John and Ljubica Erickson, pg. 72 (credits).