SARATOV, September 11 (RIA Novosti, Erik Batuyev) - The Anglo-Soviet alliance in World War II is the focus of a revived photography exhibition that opened Saturday at the Radishchev Art Museum of Saratov, in central Russia.
The display, entitled "Britain-Russia: Common Victory," features images by British photographers, illustrating life in the Soviet Union before and during WWII and the civilian population's response to the challenges of that war. The idea behind the project was to consolidate the Allied coalition against Nazi Germany and to convince Great Britain of the need to open a second front.
The pictures were unveiled in Moscow in January 1943 and then shown in other cities across the Soviet Union. They returned to the nation's capital in November 1944 and spent the subsequent sixty-odd years shelved at the National Archives.
Now the exhibition has been revived, at the initiative of the National Archives, the Federal Film Agency and the Federal Archives Agency. From Saratov it will travel further east, to cities such as Izhevsk, Orenburg, and Tyumen.
