A Portrait Of Soviet Mobilization

Serge Plantureu/The Dmitri Baltermants Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images
Serge Plantureu/The Dmitri Baltermants Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images
This image doesn’t feature any information regarding when it was taken, which makes the context a little difficult to determine. What is known is that it’s depicting Soviet tanks on their way to Russia’s front with Germany.
Depending on when this was taken, they could either be travelling to meet German forces during Operation Barbarossa or moving to help push them back after the German invasion of the Soviet Union failed.