Russian partisans prepare to combat against the Nazi invaders.
Photo interesting because Russian partisans armed with cold weapons and British Lee-Enfield (Lee-Enfield – SMLE) rifles.
Lee-Enfield rifles came to the Red Army and Russian partisans from the British Army, which in 1919 occupied the Russian North. Rifles for a long time stored in warehouses, but after the first defeats of 1941 began to arrive to the operating units of the Red Army and Russian partisan units.
Place photo: Leningrad
Date: 1942
Author: Sergey Loskutov