{"id":14927,"date":"2011-05-22T02:32:06","date_gmt":"2011-05-22T00:32:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=14927"},"modified":"2011-05-22T02:32:06","modified_gmt":"2011-05-22T00:32:06","slug":"victory-day-photography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2011\/05\/22\/victory-day-photography\/","title":{"rendered":"Victory Day photography"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I’m catching up with some of my RSS subscriptions, so this is a few days late. \u00a0On May 9th, Russia and other ex-USSR countries celebrate the Victory Day over the Nazi Germany in the World War II. \u00a0Big Picture<\/a> has an excellent collection of photos covering the celebrations.<\/p>\n

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I’m catching up with some of my RSS subscriptions, so this is a few days late. \u00a0On May 9th, Russia and other ex-USSR countries celebrate the Victory Day over the Nazi Germany in the World War II. \u00a0Big Picture has an excellent collection of photos covering the celebrations.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,30],"tags":[286,2909,2407],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-14927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-photography","tag-history","tag-russia","tag-world-war-ii"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10113,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2006\/05\/09\/the-victory-day\/","url_meta":{"origin":14927,"position":0},"title":"The Victory Day","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"May 9, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Late on May 8 1945 Nazi Germany signed the act of capitulation. 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