The Art Of War: Russia Creates 'World's Biggest' War Diorama
The Art Of War: Russia Creates 'World's Biggest' War Diorama
A state-funded exhibition in St. Petersburg recreates the battlefields of World War II in brutal detail.

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Soviet and Nazi soldiers locked in a fight to the death in a trench.

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Horses gasp their way across the Dnieper River as Red Army soldiers are blasted from their boat.

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Refugees haul their belongings past a wrecked Soviet tank. These are some of the scenes from an exhibition recreating the battlefields of World War II, known in Russia as The Great Patriotic War.

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An artist puts the finishing touches on a German tank. The exhibition -- Memory Speaks: The Road Through War, will open on September 19 and run until spring 2020.