COLD WAR OUTPOST History Group

Soviet Army Photo Scrapbook (1978-1980)DDR

 

Many soldiers kept scrapbooks containing photographs, documents, and other ephemera as a souvenir of their service in a war zone. The scrapbook pictured here, belonged to a young solider who served his mandatory two years in the Soviet Armed Forces. This soldier served his two years, with the Group of Soviet Forces Germany (East Germany). From the different pictures and the drawings, it appears he traveled in East Germany. This scrapbook provides a glimpse of what it was like serving in the soviet army in East Germany

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