http://www.95thrifles.org/ - Information from a re-enactment group. Plus a catchy song to listen to
http://www.hymn.ru/index-en.html - Every russian national anthem ever written in handy mp3 format (including a 1943 english version)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:S ... _divisions - List of Divisions that fought in WWII.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snipers_of ... viet_Union - Snipers of the Soviet Union.
http://www.battlefield.ru/index.php?opt ... 08&lang=en - If you thought Enemy At The Gates was a reasonably historically accurate film read this site of a Russians take on the film. Enlightening.
Thats all I can think of for now. Feel free to add any more
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From a post listing links on wwii reenacting by Kozlov.
Units
http://2ndguards.com - 2nd Guards (UK) (note I've met and drank with this lot, they are more than willing to help airsofters with questions about kit, well they helped me just don't drink their vodka thats Helga comment not Kozlov )
http://13guards.bravehost.com - 13th Guards (UK)
http://www.reenactor.se - 63rd Guards (Sweden)
Dealers
US based...
http://www.ostfront.com
http://www.tridentmilitary.com
http://www.collectrussia.com (pricey but it's all what he says it is)Eastern Europe..
http://www.aboutww2militaria.com
http://www.russianarsenal.com (uniforms are mostly repro and some items are a bit dodgy)
http://militaria-centre.com/ St Petersburg basedResearch
http://www.battlefield.ru - The Russian Battlefield. If you interest is tanks then this is the place to go. The 'I Remember' section has lots of veteran memoirs too.
http://www.iremember.ru - The Russian original for the section mentioned above. Has more biographies but you'll have to put them through a translator first - unless your Russian is better than mine!
http://www.redarmystudies.net - What it says on the tin. Lots of useful articles and links on the Red Army at war many from the Voenny Istoricheskii Zhurnal - all translated of course.
http://rkka.ru - all in Russian but a good site on the Red Army
http://www.mannerheim-line.com - a site maintained by our comrade from North Front, Bair Irincheev, on the Finnish Defences of the Winter War.
http://www-cgsc.army.mil/carl/resources/csi/csi.asp - lots of online books not just about the Red Army
http://rkkaww2.armchairgeneral.com/
The site owner seems to be a patriot so some of his opinion pieces are...interesting, but the data & pictures are good.
http://www.russian-mosin-nagant.com/
http://www.kursk1943.mil.ru/kursk/arch/photo/index.html
http://www.aviapress.com/viweproducer.htm?ORU
http://www.barbarossabooks.co.uk/
Culture
Youtube vid I found
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-bBXNq5nRY
And a film recommended if anyone wants to do some viewing
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Star-Region-2-A ... 68-5105532
Female Russian Sniper info
http://www.iremember.ru/infantry/kalugina/kalugina.htm (same link as above but I believe its in English (well it was when I viewed it )
Ooo good links
http://rkkaww2.armchairgeneral.com/maps.htm - For the complete WWII Soviet enthusiast; Period battle maps (in Russian). Site also has a wealth of other information.
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Not just for the ladies. Lyudmila Pavlichenko was another great with 309 kills during WWII. (Vasilli Zaitsev manged 400).
http://www.snipersparadise.com/history/pavlichenk.htm
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A clip from the Russian 2004 series "Shtrafbat" about a Soviet penal unit
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=OLFM8zpZ0AA&feature=related
In my opinion the clip contains all the best parts of the series. the rest is not quite up to standard.
Lyube has a lot of great patriotic songs.
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Another nice little link...