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Photoshop Time Portals to World War II [Image Cache]

Photoshop Time Portals to World War II [Image Cache]Russian photographer Sergey Larenkov took some old photographs from World War II and combined them with new perspective-matching photos. The end result are a sequence of time portals that help us contextualize the war into our current reality.

The technique is awfully simple, but clever and effective, giving some eerie results like the only above. That\’s the legendary Marshal of the Soviet Union Georgy Zhukov. In 1945, he was commander of the Red Army\’s 1st Belorussian Front, which took Berlin inclusive of the 1st Ukranian Front (the Soviet equivalents to the Western Army Groups). He is calling at the camera, all serious, standing on the stairs of the Reichstag, surrounded by some of his lieutenants and a gaggle of holiday makers.

Here is a bunch of Soviet soldiers walking by a damaged Imperial Palace Hofburg, in Vienna, Austria, kicking the rubble in between shiny Audis, Volkswagens, and Volvos:

Photoshop Time Portals to World War II [Image Cache]

Watch the gallery for scenes from everywhere Europe, including Saint Petersburg (then Leningrad):

So simple, yet so clever and effective. [Sergey Larenkov-Thanks Steve!]

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