On the Eastern Front of World War II, in 1941, the Soviet Red Army fought the Germans on the Smolenks front, some 400 kilometers from Moscow, killing a low-ranking Soviet Hronvuk soldier.

 　　On the Eastern Front of World War II, in 1941, the Soviet Red Army fought the Germans on the Smolenks front, some 400 kilometers from Moscow, killing a low-ranking Soviet Hronvuk soldier. Their bodies were left lying in the snow on the roadside, and on December 29, 1941 the Red Army recovered territory on the outskirts of Moscow and clamored about the atrocities in the German izguns.

　The Germans suffered many casualties, but the Soviets suffered even more. Like many photographs taken during the war, Barthel-Manz's were censored. This was because the Soviet government did not want the public to see the greater destruction and death of Soviet soldiers.

　This was a scene that was repeated countless times during Operation Barbarossa. Soviet soldiers in Fronvuk did everything in their power to defend their homeland. Both armies, the Lancers, ordinary Germans, and the Frontviks, low-ranking Russians, fought and tried to survive in very similar combat conditions. Both served regimes led by dictatorships that were infinitely more evil and violent. Both fought bravely in attack and tenaciously in defense. Both the heat of summer and the cold of winter took their toll, and the dust and mud on both sides of the battle lines, poor food, inadequate medical care, lack of leave, and the abundance of pests made life miserable for the soldiers of both armies.

　Lancers, the German lancer cavalry, had the primary task of breaking up infantry columns and mopping up enemy infantry. Lancers charged in several abreast columns. Lancers were deployed when the Soviet Red Army either collapsed or began to withdraw due to artillery and infantry firepower.

　In the Russian Army, all infantry divisions in the Red Army were labeled Strelkovye divisions. The front vieq applied only to infantry fighting on the front line combatant front. Any violation of the solemn oath of the Russian army was met with the severe punishment of Soviet law and the full hatred and contempt of the working class. Frontviks had to live, fight, and die in small foxholes dug into the earth. Soldiers not engaged in combat spent at least an hour each day in political indoctrination into communism.