Photograph of Soviet civilian Vera Stepanova on the ground of the Soviet War Memorial at the Central Cemetery in Brno, Czech Republic, pictured on February 9, 2016 after an unsuccessful amateurish restoration. Vera Stepanova was born on July 30, 1925 in Kuznetsk in Penza Region, Russia, served in the Red Army as a typist during World War II and died of typhus at age 19 on June 6, 1945, in Brno in South Moravia, Czechoslovakia. Her photograph installed by the relatives after the war on the mass grave where her body rests was unsuccessfully restored recently by unknown amateurs.
Photograph of Soviet civilian Vera Stepanova on the ground of the Soviet War Memorial at the Central Cemetery in Brno, Czech Republic, pictured on February 9, 2016 after an unsuccessful amateurish restoration. Vera Stepanova was born on July 30, 1925 in Kuznetsk in Penza Region, Russia, served in the Red Army as a typist during World War II and died of typhus at age 19 on June 6, 1945, in Brno in South Moravia, Czechoslovakia. Her photograph installed by the relatives after the war on the mass grave where her body rests was unsuccessfully restored recently by unknown amateurs. The medallion with the unsuccessful restored photograph was removed totally by the Russian Embassy shortly after the result of the amateurish restoration works was spread in the social networks. Soviet soldiers and military officers who died in the very last days of World War II and shortly after the war were buried far away from their homes and some of their graves look abandoned and unvisited now. Their photographs are gradually destroyed by time and there are no sources to replace them by the new ones.
Size: 5521px × 3681px
Photo credit: © Vladimir Pomortzeff / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
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