
Etiket: soldier
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![Brazilian soldier in Southern Italy battling the nazis, 1944. Written in the artillery shell is the quote “the snake is smoking”, a symbol of the Brazilian Expeditionary Forces adopted in response to critics who said “it was more likely for a snake to smoke, than to Brazil to join the war”[788×1024]](https://wp.rifat.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/jsc97y6b30ug1.jpeg)
Brazilian soldier in Southern Italy battling the nazis, 1944. Written in the artillery shell is the quote “the snake is smoking”, a symbol of the Brazilian Expeditionary Forces adopted in response to critics who said “it was more likely for a snake to smoke, than to Brazil to join the war”[788×1024]

![Soldier guarding confiscated grain from Ukrainian peasants, Kharkiv 1933.[1496×1155]](https://wp.rifat.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/i0kndp1o6zqg1.jpeg)
![A Portuguese soldier during the “Carnation Revolution”, which was a near-bloodless coup carried out by the Armed Forces Movement (formed by officers who had served in Portugal’s Colonial War) that ended Portugal’s colonial empire and decades-long dictatorship. Lisbon, April 25, 1974. [1030×1490]](https://wp.rifat.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/brhnzst5farg1.png)



![Fallen soldier in the “Wheat Field” at the Battle of Gettysburg, July 2, 1863. Photo by James F. Gibson. [869×967]](https://wp.rifat.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/unppfbtgytrg1.jpeg)

![Dogra Rajput soldier, 1954 [1116 x 1362]](https://wp.rifat.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/8l5z49ocfmsg1.jpeg)

![Viet Minh soldier shakes the hand of a wounded French prisoner of war after the battle of Dien Bien Phu, May, 1954. [594 × 394]](https://wp.rifat.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/mqfex2jbmgtg1.jpeg)

![Children watch in 1992 the changing of the Kremlin Guard in front of Lenin’s tomb shortly after the collapse of the Soviet Union. The tradition was moved from Lenin’s tomb to the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in 1993 and continues today. [2998×1980]](https://wp.rifat.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/da61jqh51xtg1-scaled.jpeg)

![Sculptor Anna Coleman Ladd fitting a soldier with a restorative face mask during WWI. She set up her own studio in Paris and set to work sculpting new faces for those who had lost a piece of theirs in trench warfare. (1917) [1080×830]](https://wp.rifat.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/9yysakhwzcug1.jpeg)

![French Soldier with two prosthetic arms learning to write again, WW1. [640×464]](https://wp.rifat.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/9pvvfqkumlug1.jpeg)
